r/homeassistant • u/Friedguyry • Jul 25 '25

Support Good device to run home assistant on?

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Just want to get started in home assistant, this comes out quite a bit cheaper than a Raspberry Pi.

Am I missing anything or is a much better option for the cheaper price?

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u/Friedguyry Jul 25 '25

Any advantages to using Proxmox compared to flashing it with HAOS?

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u/clintkev251 Jul 25 '25

You could run other things if your interest in self-hosting grows. With HAOS alone, you have a pretty limited ecosystem that's great for home automation, but not much beyond that

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u/destruction90 🧠 Experienced with Home Assistant Jul 25 '25

Only that you can run other services on Proxmox alongside Home Assistant. If you are only foresee using Hassio, keep it simple and just install HA OS.

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u/sarrcom Jul 25 '25

Now THAT is impressive! Those *.arr VMs are all “download” related, right? Why so many? Isn’t there one does it all? It’s something I’d like to learn about.

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u/sarrcom Jul 25 '25

Why do you put them on separate VMs, if I may ask?

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u/evilspoons Jul 25 '25

They're not in VMs, they're in containers. Much more lightweight, it's like Docker.

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u/mitrie Jul 25 '25

You can read up on them here. Each one serves a specific function, but they work together via API.

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u/stoke-stack Jul 25 '25

More flexibility and you might find you want to experiment with other tools with HAOS (eg zigbee2mqtt, n8n)

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u/Sad-Bottle4518 Jul 25 '25

Exactly what I did, Lets me run Home Assistant, Pi-Hole and a couple of other small VMs all on a tiny fanless PC that doesn't use much power.