I’ve started with HA on Ubuntu before, had to change to Debian, because I had some issues. Can’t remember anymore exactly what. I do remember the important part - it did not worked perfectly
Sorry to everyone that responded to my question, I’ve been having too much fun with this setup.
For RAM I just upgraded the RAM from 8GB (2x4GB sticks) to 16GB (2x8GB sticks).
For now, I am running Home Assistant Core now I am thinking of moving up to Home Assistant Supervisor.
I am so glad that I tried this software again, it was 3 yrs ago when I tried it for the first time. I am so glad that my IT education has paid off…lol
The correct answer to this is that it will depend on the load you are going to submit your system to. A simple HA install, to tend to a regular home may have 50 different devices and run a couple integrations or addons and run fine on a Rpi 3, but if you just add another service, like plex for an instance, as you mentioned, it will not work at all. This because a plex installation, depending on the type of content you will serve, will be very CPU intensive and that is not the purpose of a RPi 3. If you plan to stream 4K video, let’s say to 2 different TVs at the same time, in a household, what is not something so difficult, this means that not even a maxed out RPi 4, with SSD and 8 GB of RAM will do, since this is not the intention of this also. You would need a more powerful CPU for that.
The answer to this question is you need to plan and bring together the hardware needed to support your designs.
It is important to positively insure that, for most purposes, a RPi 3 is more than enough to admin a regular household with HA with plenty of power. But if you plan to add something, it is important to check the minimum requirements for this. In the case of the plex server, in their site they specify that a minimum of an Intel i3 and 2 GB of RAM is required, so I would say that your computer, that runs or a celeron or a pentium CPU does not qualify. I would not bet on that to run a plex server as an addon to a HA installation.
The idea to run anything in a RPi system, if you ask me, is to have something that will do the job, it is a ARM Quad Core with 1 GB or RAM, plenty of USB Ports, Ethernet Port, Wifi and Bluetooth, not to mention plenty of in and out ports so you may do as you wish, that will not consume a lot of energy, that is somewhat a industrial style device - a RPi is constructed so you may play and test things. That is, undoubtedly, a very capable little computer.
Thanks for this. I was able to install in on a Beelink U59 Pro. I have a question, this device has an optional 2.5 bay where we can install a 2.5 harddrive as storage. Will this version of HA install detect the extra drive??
I got one beelink T4, but after flashing the emmc, the drive does not appear in the bios as boot option. Did you face this issue? How can I fix the boot?