Hi, I am in a process of building a new house and I would like to have as much automated and interconnected as possible, so I keep constantly digging through various options of sensors, lights, switches, etc… but first, after the whole day of reading through this forum I still can’t decide which platform to use to have solid, long lasting Home Assistant infrastructure.
I would like to have Hass.io, CCTV and NAS (FreeNAS) in one server if possible, to minimize power consumption and I would like to ask you for your experience and your insight.
The scenario:
- 6x FullHD IP cam (motion detection on the server)
- 15-20x smart switches and sensors (some of them Z-wave or Zigbee)
- 10x wireless lights
- NAS storage for media (doesn’t even have to be RAID)
Now, what I have been thinking about so far:
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Intel NUC i7 (or i5 if it would be enough) with FreeNAS, Hass.io in Docker and CCTV system.
Here I was thinking about either Shinobi (which now should have MQTT support) or BlueIris running in a Windows VM (but I would like to avoid using Windows), I sorta discarded ZoneMinder because many of you here kept mentioning that it is a real resource hog. -
RPi 4B 4GB + my old Synology NAS which is not fast enough for camera server, so it would have to run on RPi aswell. Not sure if RPi will be able to handle Hassio and camera server. And I also don’t like how short the lifespan of SD card is, so if it’s possible now (I remember seeing some talk about it), it would have to boot from SSD connected to USB.
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Buying a new higher-end Synology, DS218+ for example, using their built in Surveillance station and running Hass.io in a docker on it. I really like how Synology and their Surveillance are integrated into the HA.
Here I am not sure if Z-wave or Zigbee sticks will work when connected to USB. -
Buying a new Synology, using their Surveillance station and having Hass.io on RPi 4B (or 3B+ which I currently own). Here again I would like to avoid having HA on SD card.
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Any other option?
Sorry for the long post and I know it’s not only about HA, but I assume many of you guys are running the same setup here, so I would like to know some pros and cons of these setups and what you have tested. I don’t like much the idea of having standard ATX/ITX server or desktop as they tend to draw a lof of power.
Thank you