6 Hardware Recommendations for Home Assistant

What hardware are you running Home Assistant on?! 👇

Now I want to get a server because of you. If my wife gets mad it will be all your fault 🤣🤣🤣 thanks for your videos! Very informative and fun to watch!

The only problem with "use the hardware you have" is high noise output, high power usage, and high space occupancy. Except that I'm sure everyone who watches these videos has multiple old servers, laptops, or computers. The trick is to find the smallest, most efficient, quietest, and cheapest :-D

I agree with the raspberry Pi comments I started running home assistant on a raspberry pie 3. It worked, but was kind of slow after adding a lot of integrations. If you already have a raspberry Pi, it's good for playing around, but if you actually want to use Home Assistant I'd recommend something with more power. Switched to running it on old i5 windows laptop in a virtual machine. Works well and the laptop is hooked up to my tv playing double duty as a media box.

I wish you had mentioned Synology in detail. You teased us in the beginning...

Keep in mind that the Home Assistant Blue case is limited edition. I purchased one recently here in the US and the Odroid came preloaded with the HA image, but the case was the standard clear Odroid case.

Use old smartphones from friends and family that they couldn't otherwise sell. basically a hub for each room that has front camera monitoring with triggers for different activities/occupancy and also a flashlight with light sensor that can serve as nightlight with status display (clock, temp, humidity, etc) or wall panel. Accelerometer and gyro could be used for vibration sensor or door/window sensor. Depending on the geometry of your setup it could even be used for full rear camera surveillance (for example if you punch a hole in each of the room doors and put it there you could use ALL of what I described).

I can vouch for HA running on a wide variety of hardware. I started on a Raspberry Pi 3 to find out all about it. Then shortly after switched to an Odroid XU4. I'm now running a fanless i5-3470t in a small mini itx case. I'm using proxmox as the main os with HA and pfsense as the main two virtual machines. The benefit is that I can run multiple computers on a single silent box with the benefit of keeping the power usage down.

I got a used threadripper 1950x and ROG zenith extreme mobo for 1000$ couple years ago on ebay. 2000$ MSRP new at time of purchase. mobo was unpackaged, cpu installed, everything else in mobo box was factory sealed. no dust or signs of use on the mobo. Running Unraid, VMs, dockers, Hass, blue iris (in vm), friggate & doubletake & deepstack in dockers, NAS, emby media server, the "arr" dockers, ect, ect. its been great.

As a newbie, and Network Admin, it was easy, straight to a server! Though I’m running Hubitat also though. Still undecided which is best.

Very clear and honest review which answered all the questions I had in my head (still getting into this local home assistant thing). Subscribed!

Remember the NUC install runs any Intel hardware. I’m running mine on a old Mac mini

I run Home Assistant on Dell T420, as a VM running ESXi 6.7.

HP thin client T520 (€10 second-hand) 8gb ram, 250gb SSD(upgraded for €30), 6-7 watt if HDD drives are not running. Proxmox as OS, where I run HA in a VM besides Nextcloud (fileserver), Pihole and bitwarden.

Hey guys, give this guy some likes! Good infos, good video quality, he's always ready to answer yours questions on discord! Thumb up!

Using an IBM X3250 x5, like you said... not a beginer choice...

I'm running HA as a Docker container on an Unraid machine. It's an AMD Threadripper CPU 1st gen. Quite nice setup.

PowerEdge T320, VMWare ESXi, Docker and ESXi virtual machines. A few RPi doing various things

i thought i heared somewhere that you can use the NUC image on a dell Optiplex 3040

I run Home Assistant and Blue Iris (for video surveillance) on an Intel NUC 8i5BEH with a 240GB SSD drive, i5 8th gen and 16GB RAM. The software setup is Windows 10 Pro + Home Assistant in Virtualbox. The i5 sits at about 5% usage most of the time so it seems it's having an easy time handling it Heads up for Linux users: I also tried Proxmox and other linux distro's before but this specific NUC has a faulty ethernet driver in some versions of the linux kernel that cause ethernet to cut out constantly.