How to compare different ways of installation on the same hardware

Installation
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Hello there. Let me go straight to the point.

Is there any better way to benchmark the Home Assistant installation than running built in scripts like below?

hass --script benchmark fire_events
hass --script benchmark fire_events_with_filter
# and so on...

Here is some context
I have a laptop and run HAss OS on Windows Virtual Box. I’d like to know how much faster would it be on the same HW if installed

Thanks,

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One stupid question.
Why would you run home assistant on laptop ?
Home assistant has to be run 24/7/365 for things to work. Laptop is not a device made for that.

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Just because I have one. It serves me well as a host for HASS for quite some 5 years or so. The only thing I had to do is an automation to avoid keeping its battery at 100% all the time.

But let’s get back to the topic :slight_smile: Did you do any benchmarking of the Home Assistant setup of yours?

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No I didn’t. I started using home assistant on debian supervised installation. But I found it difficult when I need some, lets say, more advanced settings. Back then I had only integrated gpu and no google coral and I set up a doorbell. My cpu usage was very high and I tried to find I way how to solve that problem. And the end of my journey was when my comp died few times because of lack of memory and high cpu usage.
And that was it for me.
I went to docker install and never looked back.
I don’t see any performance difference between docker and supervised installation running on the same ssd and same cpu. In meanwhile i bought google coral and nvidia gpu and that decreased cpu usage a lot.

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