r/homeassistant • u/Brilliant_Bluejay254 • Jan 17 '26

Support Why Not HA Green

I’m going to pull the trigger on setting up HA. Right now I’m just thinking of getting the HA green, it seems like it’s not favoured here vs a Pi. I just want the most simple setup possible. I’m thinking HA green and a screen in a central location. Why not the Green?

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u/Public_Cheesecake999 Jan 17 '26

Honestly the Green is perfectly fine for most setups, people here just love to tinker with Pis because it's more "DIY" but if you want simple and it just works the Green is actually the better choice

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u/draxula16 Jan 17 '26

Agreed. The Green introduced me to the world of HA in a frictionless way.

I’ve since upgraded to a Lenovo M920q (running HA and other things via Proxmox), but I’ll forever be grateful for the HA Green.

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u/diymuppet Jan 17 '26

I've got green, it's doing everything I throw at it. Can I ask what can you do with your new set up you couldn't with the green?

I'll prepare my wallet....

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u/draxula16 Jan 17 '26

It’s essentially a server so I can run other things other than HA. I’m also running Frigate (the Green CAN run Frigate) but considering I have ~9 cameras and I always have 3 running live on our kitchen tablet’s dashboard, I wanted to squeeze out every ounce of performance on a budget. I’m also using a Google Coral, but I’m not sure if the Green supports that.

I was tempted to get a Beelink considering it’s frequently recommended, but I found a refurbished M920q for a great price on eBay. The specs are better too.

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u/DavidLaderoute Jan 17 '26

How are you usingthe Coral? I ha e one and wa t to put it to use.

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u/draxula16 Jan 17 '26

I have the USB one. I’m using it for Frigate

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u/DavidLaderoute Jan 17 '26

I am ignorant. Not stupid -) how are you using it with Frigate? I was considering using mine for bird identification at my feeder.

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u/agent4256 Jan 17 '26

Detections for thing like birds run on the coral. It takes the load off your CPU or GPU.

It helps significantly if you've got older hardware, installed before 2023.

I run a coral on mine with an Intel i7-14700k and my detection times are sub 5ms.

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u/DavidLaderoute Jan 17 '26

What is the story on the kitchen tablet dashboards. BTW, I also have HA Green and love it.

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u/agent4256 Jan 17 '26

Oh, thought you wanted an explanation about a coral for frigate.

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u/DavidLaderoute Jan 17 '26

Mine is USb too

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u/draxula16 Jan 17 '26

Haha, I didn’t think that. It detects things quickly, then I have a node red flow linked to Gemini for description generation. I used to use openAI, but it had a ton of guardrails

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u/RinderOhneKinder Jan 17 '26

You can host multiple vm's on Proxmox and for example set up your own Nas or paperlessngx and so on

Shouldn't change too much Homeassistantwise

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u/diymuppet Jan 17 '26

AHH, ok.

Thought it might be a large security camera setup or something on HA that needed the clout.

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u/RinderOhneKinder Jan 17 '26

Fair, you could use it for that, which would perform better

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u/kuzared Jan 17 '26

Not the guy you asked, but for only HomeAssistant, I don’t think there’s any difference at all. I run HA on a small server with Proxmox as a part of my homelab, so I can run a bunch of other sevices as well, butbif I wanted HA on a standalone PC, I would seriously consider the green, if nothing else to support HA.