fair pecan
Hello everyone. I've watched yesterdays announcment of the home assistant voice. I recently switched from a Raspberry PI 4 to a HP T640 to host my home assistant, but it seems the specs are not quite enough to run the voice assistant reliably. I wonder if anybody could give me some recommendation on what hardware I should get next to migrate HA to and get a solid experience with the voice assistant device.
Thanks in advance
fallen glade
They actually made a recommendation themselves
we recommend a Home Assistant system running on an Intel N100 or better
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/12/19/voice-preview-edition-the-era-of-open-voice/#bringing-choice-to-voice
echo wharf
I - entirely co-incidentally - had just replaced mine with a Minisforum S100
https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-s100
It's a smidge slow (for an N100) if you run it from PoE as I wanted to because it has a bit of trouble with cooling, but when it's on sale (I paid $180 in the Amazon BF sale) it's not comically overpriced compared to any other N100/8GB/256GB unit, and it is a nice form factor
Now that the working year is over, I might spend some time playing with voice on it
fallen glade
If you buy a x86 PC I'd recommend you get something that comes with the benefits of that like replaceable storage, memory, etc.
Nice device otherwise.
fair pecan
Thanks for the headsup. There seem to be a lot of N100 powered devices, I had hoped maybe the community settled on one of em for reasons 🙂
Its only been a month since I moved to the T640 ...yikes
fallen glade
What's the CPU in your system?
fair pecan
AMD Ryzen R1505G 8GB DDR4
fallen glade
I'd probably try to see how it performs first. The difference to a N100 is not that large: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/3486vs5157/AMD-Ryzen-Embedded-R1505G-vs-Intel-N100