How do you guys run home assistant?

I tried out home assistant using virtual box on my main pc and I enjoyed what I could do with it so far. So, I ordered a mini pc (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C89TQ1YF/) with the intention of running home assistant’s OS so that it’s always running regardless of Windows doing what it wants with my PC.

I run other things all the time on my main pc too, plex, isponsorblocktv, tartube, things like that. Is running just home assistant on that mini pc going to be overkill? Should I just put Linux on it and run home assistant on there some other way so that I can also run some of these other things there? Will home assistant take a noticeable performance hit?

  • JovialSodiumEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    On a Pi4.

    I was running it on a VM on the home server but then any downtimes that machine had were also HA downtimes. Decided that mattered enough to run it on it’s own hardware.

    • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.gardenEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Also Pi4, with a RaspBee Zigbee thingy on the io. I think 0 unplanned downtime so far after a year and a half on that device