Use a old Office PC as a homeserver

[woeful jasper]

Could I run Home Assistant on my Office PC and if so, are they loud and do they draw a lot of Power because the PC is located in my bedroom so it has to be real quiet in order to actually function as a Home server

[astral anvil]

Yes, because of that, it's better to use something like a mini PC or similar, with less power consumption and fanless temperature control. In any case, you can use that pc to test Home Assistant 🙂

[loud bison]

Depends on the specifc machine but sure. I wouldn't put it in my bedroom though. Even a fanless one.

[woeful jasper]

Why?

[loud bison]

Separation of concerns, bedroom is for sleeping. Lights. Etc.

Do you already have the PC? It kinda sounds like you do but also don't.

[woeful jasper]

I do have the pc so it would be more convenient for me to use the hardware i have at home

[loud bison]

But then wouldn't you know how loud it is when running? As for power you can measure that too. Do you know the model and components?

[woeful jasper]

I mean it has the regular office pc noise but you could also change the mapping on the fan. And that was my question if you could turn it like all the way down and still have enough performance for h a

[loud bison]

Depends how powerful it is. Just HA alone doesn't need a lot of power. At least not continuously.

[woeful jasper]

Thats the specs

[loud bison]

Should be fine. HDD will likely be the loudest and slowest thing.

[woeful jasper]

Could I turn it all the way down?

[loud bison]

The fan or the disk? I don't think HAOS supports AAM for the disk. The Fan I wouldn't worry about setting it to low.

[woeful jasper]

The fans

That would be the loudest component ig

[loud bison]

Sure. Glances can also show you the temperature.