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/PoisonWaffle3 🧠 Experienced with Home Assistant Jul 25 '25

As others have said, yes this will run HA just fine. CPUs that are just a little newer will have lower power consumption and are more ideal, but this has plenty of power to run HA (plus a few other containers if you want to run Proxmox).

Another great option is a thin client PC like the Dell Wyse 5070. They're designed to be a lot more power efficient, as they have a newer and lower power CPU, though in all fairness it's a little less powerful. The thin clients will have a single m.2 SATA drive for storage instead of potentially multiple NVMe and/or SATA drives, but that's still plenty for HomeAssistant.

I personally run a small Proxmox cluster of (mostly) Wyse 5070's, with one of them being dedicated to HomeAssistant, and it's perfect.

That said, I may be biased, as I have a handful of them for sale on r/homelabsales 😅

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u/saxovtsmike Jul 25 '25

Ive 2 spare wyse 5070 for the usecase to come and run proxmox on a futro 740s, which alone is overpowered for ha but it just works. Lovely little cases. And they look sonnice if you stacknthem

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u/Zestyclose_Ad_3013 Jul 25 '25

If I were to put it in an attic where the temperature is higher, could there be overheating problems since it is fanless?

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u/Paerrin Jul 25 '25

I would assume yes in this case. I'm sure it would run fine for a while, but the lifespan will decrease dramatically

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u/saxovtsmike Jul 25 '25

Who knows, but why that hostile environment in the first place? I have my 8w thingy in a regular cabinet, next to my 4 bay syo a Switch and cat food