• 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
  • the_boxhead@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    I grabbed a cheap Dell Wyze from eBay, then stuck proxmox on it, then Home Assistant in a VM. Works beautifully, plus I can run other VMs and containers. Plus snapshots etc. It runs at 5w idle and 15w under load.

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I recently picked up a GMKtec NUC for around $100 off of AliExpress. It uses very little power and is very powerful for the price.

    It doesn’t have a speaker and the opportunities for upgrades are a bit limited, but otherwise I think it might be suitable for you.

    I run it as a media server at home without any issues at all

    • Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I second this. Bought one one of their N150 units recently from Amazon. Replaced the Win11 it came with and installed Proxmox, and it’s blown me away what I’ve been able to do with it.

      It’s currently running HAOS (with ZBT-1 and Voice Preview) and a Linux VM, and plan to do more.

  • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I love the Dell micros.

    8th gen i5s, 6 cores, very low energy usage and holds 64gb RAM. 2.5gbe for another ten bucks and i think they cost me 115 each in a lot of 5. Picked the nicest three and resold the other two. Leftover 250gb ssd for os and a 1tb nvme for localdisk. Proxmox backup server on one as well.

    EDIT: I’m running proxmox with a Home Assistant VM and USB hardware passed through to clarify.

  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Has a speaker, is probably the biggest sticking point, something arm based like a raspberry pi or equivalent will hit the power requirements.

  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Got myself an ASUS NUC 13th gen with an i7, have roughly 20+ docker applications running on a headless Debian 13 VM with 7 cores allocated - Proxmox as the host.

    Small, quiet and powerful.