Intel NUC vs Odroid vs Raspberry Pi4

Hardware
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The old 'NUC" image was renamed since this now supports other hardware.

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Thanks. Yeah, was just there and noted the first prereq, which my device fails to support due to the age…UEFI…dang.

Well, more reason for newer hardware. Thank you.

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After months of fights with RPi instability (I changed the HW three times) I finally sit my HA in virtual manager of my synology nas 720+, dedicated one thread of CPU and have unbelievable stable installation.

It has some downsides such as lack of bluetooth. I use the only USB for conbee but also kept the RPi as a bridge (remote HA integration) for some interfaces such as serial with my projector. This works quite well without any interruptions.

Big question was instant HDD access causing annoying noise because HA saves history all the time. NVM cache does not solve the problem but SSD cache with SSD disk in one slot does.

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Likely you are recording much more info in the db than you need. you can exclude recording using the following code (adjusted to your system, of course) in configuration.yaml

recorder:
  purge_interval: 2
  purge_keep_days: 2
  exclude:
    entities: 
      - sensor.date_time
      - sensor.icloud3_event_log
    entity_globs:
      - sensor.abc-*
      - sensor.abc_*
      - device_tracker.abc_*
      - switch.*
      - sun.*
      - media_player.*
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I dont have any troubles now. i keep the database for 365 days to have year long data for further analysis.

The freezing problem I had is probably linked to the SD card. I changed it many times with no success even after limiting the recorder massively. Many folks can run HA on RPi, I know, but I think that given all the stuff we run on a complex house including security, running HA on a well tested HW such as synology nas or maybe even Intel NUC make huge sense

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So far I have not switched from my Raspberry Pi to a new hardware, but now as my Plex Server has been struck by the Android Update and I am struggleing to get it back up and running, I am again looking into a new hardware, that should run both, the Plex Server and the Home Assistant instance.

I am watching Plex mostly within the home network with one, maybe two streams at a time. I am not quite sure whats the most efficient combination would be to run this combination. I could run Home Assistant OS directly on the x86 hardware and install Plex as an Add-On. This would be very low maintenance. However I am not sure if Plex would get the best performance.
I could run Home Assistant Supervised and Plex in Docker Containers on a Ubuntu/Debian System, or run Home Assistant OS in a VM and Plex on a Container within Proxmox. Not sure if this is less efficient (i.e. runs at a higher idle Wattage).

Hardwarewise I have been looking into a Intel Celeron N5105 or Intel i3 1115g4, however I am not sure if the lesser amount of cores, with a higher clock speed is a benefit or not considering the higher cost.