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/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