Thin PC or Raspberry?

Hello

Let's see if I get this right as new to kbin though regular user (or was) on reddit , so fingers crossed

Also I see no posts as yet on Home Automation, so if I'm right, here's the first one

New to the Home Automation scene , I've been playing around with Home Assistant on a RaspberryPi 4b, but it only has 2gb running just Debian and Chromium with Home Assistant, but comes often to a grinding halt running out of memory.

So either I buy a Pi with 8gb of memory or I go for a ThinkCentre Tinys PC which is about the same price, (refurbished amazon) but also running Windows 10 😱 which I suppose i could delete and run Linux

Am I right, that this could be a slightly better option than the Pi?

Any thoughts?

Inamin,
Inamin avatar

I ran a pi for a couple of years. but when I started getting into containers, I was like.. I don't want home assistant managing all this. so bought a mini pc, installed proxmox, and run everything in lxcs or vms under proxmox. it just works. I used this procedure here https://github.com/Kanga-Who/home-assistant/blob/master/Home%20Assistant%20with%20Proxmox%20installation.md

which I suppose i could delete and run Linux

Don't run linux, run home assistant OS.

thehatfox,
thehatfox avatar

A 2GB Pi 4 should be more than enough to run Home Assistant. My Home Assistant runs on a Pi 4 and the system averages of about 0.9 GB of RAM usage.

You are running out of RAM because you are running a full desktop alongside Home Assistant. The Pi should be used as a Home Assistant server only. Install Home Assistant Operating System (HAOS) instead of Debian/Raspberry Pi OS, and access Home Assistant from your laptop/desktop/phone etc via browser, or with SSH via the SSH add on if you need direct access to the system.

Minty95,
Minty95 avatar

I tried HAOS once, but didn't like the command line only interface and so didn't bother looking into it further, but maybe I'll try again 👍 as Debian plus HA uses all the 2gb.

cantanga,

I run it on a VM. A year ago I was tempted to try it on a pi but never got around to it so I can't answer fully. I would think though with all the voice stuff coming through the thin client would be better as it will likely have more processing power for the moments that you need it.

34,

IMO for support and general help the raspberry pi will have more of an install base and general knowledge but the thin pc will be more powerful. With that said you have to make sure all hardware on the PC is supported by Linux whereas with the pi you know it is. Personally I run Home Assistant as a virtual machine so I can keep my collection on hardware to a management level.

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