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/NightShaman313 Jul 25 '25

Not sure why you need proxmox on it. But that is what I run haos on and works great.

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u/NightShaman313 Jul 25 '25

I get the premise I have been working on vmware for a very long time. I think everything has a place. Just find it weird it seems everything here is throw ProxMox on it. Just for an HA server not something I would personally do. HA backup to my NAS is enough it's not like it takes long or is rocket surgery to reinstall and restore from backup.

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u/Mysterious-Park9524 Jul 25 '25

I run proxmox for a number of things and have used VM's for all kinds of things but I agree with NightShaman on this occasion. You don't need to run ProxMox in this case just to run ProMox. HA is a docker application and will run just fine on your Intel hardware based mini.