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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[-] Amberskin@europe.pub 2 points 22 hours ago

You can leave just the /boot partition in the SD and put the root fs in an external USB drive (SSD or mechanical).

I’have a SIMH emulation farm running inside a Pi3 which has been up literally for years. Zero trouble.

[-] claude_flammang@dju.social 2 points 20 hours ago

@Amberskin
On Pi5 no need for SD it boots and runs perfectly well from SSD.

[-] Amberskin@europe.pub 1 points 17 hours ago

Oh, really? I guess I’ll have to check the EEPROM stuff…

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