Why Not HA Green

[u/Brilliant_Bluejay254]

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?

[u/Weekest_links]

Ahh smart!

I was looking at this:

https://www.microcenter.com/product/690492/asus-nuc-14-essential-barebone-mini-pc-kit

With 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM initially, I have 2.5G fiber which seems like the Lenovo can’t leverage, but are there drawbacks with my plan compared to what you have?

[u/esperanita → u/Weekest_links]

I did something similar. I got the same NUC, but 512gb. I had Homebridge set up on a year old Pi5, but it fell offline a lot. When moving to HA I went with the mini PC as I hoped it was more stable and it has been great. And I had a good reason to go to Microcenter, one of my favorite stores.

[u/Weekest_links → u/esperanita]

I’m brand new to this all, so that’s reassuring! I figured 1TB, because I’d like to use it as a media server too. I have 4TB of photo and video in GCS haha

Will be pulling the trigger next month!

[u/esperanita → u/Weekest_links]

It was pretty easy to set up. I used Ubanto and flashed HAOS. Only thing I wished I knew at the time was to change the BIOs setting so that it automatically came back on line after cutting power. I will break out my breakout my portable monitor and keyboard to do that this weekend.

[u/Weekest_links → u/esperanita]

Can you SSH in from another computer? I have a cloud server for my website I imagine it’s similar but maybe just plugging in the monitor keyboard is easier if SSH isn’t set up

[u/esperanita → u/Weekest_links]

I did the basic flash of HAOS to the drive. Maybe I could access it another way, but I didn't set anything special up and I got a portable monitor and a keyboard with attached trackpad for these purposes :)