Recomend a Mini PC to host home assistant on (lemmy.world)

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must not add insane amounts of cost to my power bill
Has to be upgradable if I need to add upgrades to the hardware in the future
Has a speaker
may want to possibly also set up node red but it depends on if I need it or not because I may just be fine with home assistants automation
has to have wireless connectivity
mainly setting this up to add automation around my reolink cameras linked through the reolink home hub for example getting a second camera in the same area to start recording when one detects motion or link other smart home security products like sirens or floodlights

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[-] 123@programming.dev 1 points 23 hours ago

Just replying to agree to everything. You will also not believe just how fast home assistant feels running on an n100 compared to a RPI 4. Can't speak of the RPI 5 wince I don't have one, but unless you plan to interface with hardware, a used thin client mini PC just can't be beat with the 5 being so expensive for this use case.

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