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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Home Assistant 2024.5: Just a little bit smaller (www.home-assistant.io)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a hypervisor level virtual machine host and you can use it to install multiple os's on the same machine with little overhead. I've been running haos like that for a few months now and I'm super satisfied.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ooh, do you know if it can work on an old pc being repurposed as a server? I’m very new to all this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Any PC that has virtualization features can be used. Unless it's very old, I'd say it's supported. But it may not be enabled in the bios by default. It's called VT-x for Intel and AMD-v for AMD, I think. But both are supported for at least 10 years on almost any PC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Oh wonderful, it’s an old pc my job was throwing out last summer so it’s like a 5-8yo intel. It’s not powerful by any means, but if I can run enough on it to justify the standby power draw it would be great.

Unfortunately I still have no idea wtf I’m doing lol, but worst case I break it all and wind up buying a home assistant green. I’ve committed to ensuring my home has good air and this is a project I think we’ll appreciate me following through with

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Tbf, if you know how to install Linux from a usb drive the proxmox should be a breeze. After you run though the install, go to the url it prints out and mess around. The UI is pretty straight forward.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Well the good news is I know now that my problem continues. Idk why haos couldn’t ping GitHub and proxmox can’t ping 8.8.8.8, while ubuntu server freely accessed docker, but at least I know I’m not crazy in this way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Oh good. Ubuntu server and docker are being a real learning experience which while I appreciate I would prefer a bit of hand holding from my os

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

There's a quick start script to install home assistant after you've set up proxmox. I've been running it with no issues for months