Home Assistant question reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Maximum-Warning-4186 · 2023-10-16 13:42 Looking to self host Home Assistant. Should I do this on a raspberry Pi or on my intel nuc? I'd rather host it on the nuc asa a container, but aware that the pi has great connectivity to sensors that a nuc cannot do. Also, i've got a pi5 coming soon, will this work with the home assistant or is the gpio totally different? Thanks in advance ---------------------------------------------------------------------- justinhunt1223 · 2023-10-16 13:52 What can the pi do that the nuc cannot? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ElevenNotes · 2023-10-16 14:38 Intel NUC because: \- container \- x86 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Maximum-Warning-4186 · 2023-10-16 14:44 Connectivity to sensors via gpio pins. Or is that not the way people use home assistant? I'd like to pick up temperature etc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thekrautboy · 2023-10-16 14:54 You can either go the GPIO way and fiddle with tiny short cables and all such. Or you can buy USB-connected sensors, or use devices over WLAN or Zigbee etc. Lots of options. Why not ask /r/HomeAssistant for example? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- justinhunt1223 · 2023-10-16 14:57 I would personally go to ESP home route with sensors like that. There's sensors for everything and it's all maintained by other people 😂 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Low-Chapter5294 · 2023-10-16 15:01 A PI has GPIO that a NUC does not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GenerlAce · 2023-10-16 15:18 Personally I don’t like Raspberry Pi for my home assistant / automations in general. The only real plus would be power usage being minimal with the pi. But I personally go with the NUC for the ease of storage expansion, speed, and flexibility. I use my NUC for more than just home assistant though. Do you plan on doing only home assistant? How many devices, routines, automations do you plan. The more you add the more you will notice speed delays. I use my NUC on Ubuntu with tons of containers for different things, scrypted for cameras, HA, paperless-ngx, linkding, vaultwarden, plex, etc.. to name a few. The NUC I think will be the better for long term. But also means more power. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pesfreak92 · 2023-10-16 15:35 In my opinion Home Assistant on the NUC and sensors to the raspberry PI. Connect them via MQTT. Gives you the best from both worlds. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- clintkev251 · 2023-10-16 16:18 That's theoretically something that you can do, but there's really not much utility in that. There's no reason to run HA on a Pi just for a few sensors that probably won't be that useful in actuality. You're much better off using Zigbee or Zwave sensors instead of wiring things directly to your server ---------------------------------------------------------------------- justinhunt1223 · 2023-10-16 17:10 I agree. The gpio in the pi isn't as useful in practice. I have found esp's to be far superior. Obviously if there is something you are trying to do that you need to not rely on a network or something else, use a pi. I built a tempeh incubator for someone that is operated by a pi, touchscreen, and some sensors all connected to the gpio because I needed everything local. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- justinhunt1223 · 2023-10-16 17:13 While it does, that doesn't mean you can't achieve the same results with a nuc. A nuc is much better for home assistant and gpio sensors aren't the way to go. There are caveats to this, but generally people are better off going a different route for sensors than gpio ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lilolalu · 2023-10-16 21:05 I think it depends on the ram. With a RPi3 it was a pain to run haos, but I think a NUC is overkill for HA. I bought a HP T610 to run HAOS (with a connbee stick for ZigBee) and it works perfectly, rebooted it once in the last year I think. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lilolalu · 2023-10-16 21:06 Sensors on ESPHome...