Dreamquest Mini PC as HA Server

[undone sequoia]

In terms of specs, it seems a Dreamquest mini PC would work perfectly fine as a HA server. But I can't find whether I'd be able to run it as HAOS, rather than containerised or using something like proxmox. An anyone confirm that I would be able to run HAOS director on such a device, and maybe an opinion on whether it's a good idea? I'd be going for this one, with N150, 16GB ram and 512GB SSD: https://www.dreamquest.online/products/dreamquest-pro-plus?variant=51787141579052

[modern needle]

it will likely work fine.
In general my go to recommendation is the Beelink S13 which is more or less the same spec as this.

I have some people report that some of the "less known" mini pc providers sometimes use a cheaper ethernet controller which doesn't work correctly with HAOS (currently) as drivers are not upstreamed to the linux kernel, and their solution is to just get a cheap usb ethernet adaptor for it.
I am NOT saying that this will definitely happen to you but its a possibility of something that happens sometimes and the solution to it.

[amber zenith]

I don't see why not but Proxmox VE is an excellent choice for this: https://gist.github.com/Impact123/c23c36eafe1672ec056233e450a86ae2

[undone sequoia]

I looked at the Beelink devices, but they're about €100 more, so thought maybe this might work too. I'll look a bit into the ethernet issue.

[modern needle]

yeah the beelink stuff does tend to vary in price country to country.

[undone sequoia]

I'll look into virtualization a bit more.. just feels like something extra to maintain though...

[modern needle]

I prefer virtualisation too as it gives some flexibility on how the whole system is used. but its up to you which way you want to go 🙂

[dark zealot]

Is PM VE on OS in itself? So PM VE OS on mini PC, then vortialoze HA

[amber zenith]

Yep. It's based on debian.

[dark zealot]

Nice, that's real tempting

Beelinl s12/13 seems reasonably Priced between 200-300£ uk

[carmine vine]

I personally prefer docker over haOS, also easier to maintain

[amber zenith]

It's what I use in production in a debian VM too.

[dark zealot]

So you use a mini pc and docker rather than mini PC and proxmox for VMS?

[undone sequoia]

I thought with HAOS I can just run the os update, and that's it. With docker or proxmox, don't I need to update the OS, the docker/proxmox software and HA, all separately?

I do want to try and play with frigate, I'm guessing that's better not to run as a HA add-on but in a separate VM then?

[carmine vine]

I wrote a script to pull the docker containers and update them, but you are correct

[amber zenith]

No. All I said is that I don't use HAOS in production. I use Proxmox VE and run Home Assistant in a docker container in a debian VM on it.
This runs on a tower PC/Server but a Mini PC works equally well.