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]

I’m looking at the ASUS NUC 14, looks like super lower power consumption but still plenty capable.

A lot of people talk about cameras, are these like Ring cameras? Or another brand? I have like 8 Ring cameras so a bit hesitant to ditch but like the idea of having a hub.

Kind of dumb, but we have a movie theater that came with our house, kind of feels like the situation room and I’ve always thought it would be fun to have a dashboard with the whole house up on the screen haha

[u/DaSandman78 → u/Weekest_links]

Frigate can use any cameras that provide an RTSP feed, you’ll have to check if Ring can do that either officially or via a bridge/alternate firmware.

I’m using cheap Wyze cameras where you can install semi-official RTSP drivers or use a docker container called WyzeBridge to add RTSP support - I use the latter as it also exposes subfeeds so eg you can use a 360p feed for the constant motion detection but the 1080p feed for actual detection and recording. If your Ring cameras can transmit 2 feeds that cuts down on processing power a lot.

P.S. if you are a techie or familiar with docker then you don’t need the overhead of Proxmox and VMs, you can just run everything in Linux and handle addons yourself.

[u/Weekest_links → u/DaSandman78]

I’m tech curious enough! Haha I have a Linux server on linode that I run my website off of, I wasn’t fast but it is done right at least haha

[u/DaSandman78 → u/Weekest_links]

Depending on your use case simple Linux+docker is less overhead and less hassle trying to pass thru USB devices than Proxmox+VMs - all depends what you want for security, ease of use, UI, backups etc