Kodi is not a piracy tool.
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Iām using an Odroid H2 running Debian (compliant HA Supervised); It boots from a modest (240 GB) Intel enterprise-quality SSD with power loss protection. Its CPU runs at a load of <5%, but Iām not running much more than a Z-wave network, a small alarm system, and two thermostats. Iāve had no issues with the hardware; it has never failed to reboot after a power failure.
Hereās an alternative mini PC that looks interesting: https://www.seeedstudio.com/Odyssey-Blue-J4105-128GB-p-4668.html. There are reviews on YouTube.
Very interesting, thank you.
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I am not suggesting it is, nor am I suggesting that a VPN is a piracy tool. What I am saying is that a VPN is one method of evading content geoblocking, censorship, and monitoring.
Imagine you are in China and want to watch a Winnie the Pooh clip, but you are both geocensored by government decrees and firewalls, and you also dont want to be thrown in prison, well a VPN or Tor are the typical tools to do that.
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I agree, but as a member of team kodi, I get touchy about the perception that kodi gets given in these matters 
Pretty sure that will be censored in the west soon as well lol
Nickroutā¦the VPN is not for Kodiā¦I want to set up a vpn router which will provide security for all computers in the house. I am looking at KODI to consolidate devices and replace a ROKUā¦I subscribe to a number of providers which are supported by Kodi. In addition, I run PiHole, Home Assistant, Mealie, a linux desktop and I would like to consolidate to one server. As I said, Iām also learning what can and canāt be run togetherā¦still pondering Proxmox (or equivalent) vs dockerā¦and how to install any or all of this on a NUC with one ethernet port and one graphics card.
Iām actually using SD installation on RPi4 with a suggested speed microSD.
So the method to move installation on an ArgonOne M2 should be take a snapshot backup and a fresh installation of debian on m.2 , install HA manually and restore backup?
wellā¦ you can use the same method as for your SD installation and yes you can used snapshot backup to restore.
If you want the Debian + supervised method that is also possible.
Basically, you just replace microSD boot into SSD boot instead
I was also thinking about upgrading from my current Raspberry Pi4 setup to something more versitile like an x86/64 architecture with an HDD. The reason is that I am currently running my Maria DB recorder on a Synology NAS, but that is not capable of running InfluxDB and I do not want to run that database on the Pi with SD, or SSDā¦
Currently I do not have any further use case for the device besides running Home Assistant Supervised with a couple of add-ons (Nginx, Samba, VS Code, DeConz), besides maybe moving the Plex server from the Shield TV to this server for easier backups.
Are there any experiences with power consumptions of any comparable setups in comparison to the Pi4?
What would be the recommended processor for this?
Edit: Neither Form factor or noise level will be an issue for me, as the device would run in a 19" Serverrack in the basement. I am purely worried on the power consumption for this being an always on device.
I finally ended with running HA on VMM of my synology as the server runs anyway. Itās fast, working like a sharm and you can install whatever you want in VMM. RPi was significantly slower and finally even unreliable. That was maybe due to my particular piece of hw I returned but cannot compare now as I run RPi only for serial control of my DLP projector. That works well.
EDIT:
I bought more RAM and cache disks for the synology, so I do not cut from RAM and I buess that most of the HA runs from NVM sdd cache, itās really fast in restarting core, under 10s
Yes it is, see https://www.paolotagliaferri.com/home-assistant-data-persistence-and-visualization-with-grafana-and-influxdb/
I think you can run whatever you want in VMM environment.
I was thinking to buy a NUC but the fact that this nas is already running, my core web services run on another nas, this one serves mainly for purposes of the local house and the fact you can upgrade ram and nvm to keep major part in ram or cache finally won. Honestly I dont understand the huge support for RPi after that year I spent with that hw. Speed / reaction on nas is comparable to oracle vm running on my 9700k cpu and I havent experienced a single freeze. My RPi was constantly freezing because the load I caused by residently listening automations
I run a less powerful ARM powered DS416j for which there is no Docker support 
I see, I wasnāt aware of that.
Would you recommend Debian Supervised over something like Proxmox for HA on a non-NUC x86_64 PC?
So what solution did you ultimately choose?
That would be / is my choice but itās a personal preference.
I previously ran Ubuntu, not Debian, and have never tried Proxmox so canāt say.
Unless you really want to do other things with the machine which arenāt available as HA Add-ons then I really see no point to complicating the install. Thatās why I now run the standard x86_64 HA OS image.
I somehow missed thisā¦this is recent right?
I set up an old desktop (i7 from 2011) with Proxmox like 3 months ago to run HA since I didnāt think there was a way to run a standard image. Looking into that now as I really have no desire to run anything else on this box.