im moving from google home to home assistant, i have an old synology wich ill be upgrading to a stronger server in the near future, for now ill need somethig that is strong enough to run all my automations, can handle the 7 cameras we have and doesnt need reboots every so often.
#what device (other than a nas) can be used to run 24/7/365 for home assistant (not green)
rapid cedar
rapid cedar
(i also run my nest audio speakers for voice commands)
formal adder
Hard to tell how much load your 7 cameras will produce but I'd recommend a cheap used PC from eBay. Depending on location you can get them for 50-80 or so.
topaz arch
Maybe for the same money buy a dedicated server, like hp proliant ml110. Paid 70 euro , 16gb ram, xeon proc. installed proxmox and run HA in VM, you can add other VM's like samba server, dhcp, dns etc. I guess you will have more options too for your cams
rapid cedar
Maybe for the same money buy a dedicated server, like hp proliant ml110. Paid 70...
That's something ill do in the future, when my old Synology gives out and im creating a bigass 8bay server in combination with a small for media encoding etc.
But for now, a basic small used pc would be okay Running 24/7?
I was looking at this :
Specs:
intel Mini PC Intel Twin Lake Q1-2025 (tot 3,6 GHz)
256 GB SSD-schijf
12 GB DDR4 memory
4 Cores
4 Threads
3 x USB-3 poorten
2 x HDMI-poorten
2 x netwerk-poort (1000 Mbps)
(idle mode 6 watt)