I am new to Home Assistant. I am thinking about buying the HA Green, but am concerned that it may not be sufficient. Is it good enough to run ESPHome? I might run a few automates lights and meters as well.
Thank you very much.
Don’t worry.
Only if you run multiple camera feeds or local voice will a raspberry struggle
Are you saying that a raspberry doesn’t do as well with video as the Green?
My bad… I thought the green had a Raspberry inside.
Either way its powerful enough to do a lot.
Thanks, good to hear.
HA green has, if i see correct Cortex A55, which is slightly worse as the one in yellow ( Pi4, cortex A72), so…
AS far as ESPHome goes i’d rather look for used Intel NUC or similar. Difference is huge while price isn’t that bigger. I won’t say it won’t work, but compile time will be measuring in (several) minutes, especially for esp32…
Also note that you’re a beginner NOW, you won’t always be one, your HA will grow, number of devices will increase, green will begin to struggle… so why not buy a good equipment now?
I’d say that Pi4 is slowly getting “old” for new purchases, so it’s about time that NabuCasa begins to think towards upgrading their HA hardware…
I have a pi 4 and it takes about 90-100 seconds for a compile of a ESP.
But of course it depends on what you compile
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Yeah, with esp8266 (if you mean that one) is not such a difference than esp32. I’m slowly abandoning those small esp’s and starting with esp32 more and more lately since it’s way more powerfull and not much more priced.
I just tested translating bt proxy with “clean build files”: from hitting “compile” to end it took just over 30 seconds. Now, i’m not trying to be picky, but if i’m developing something new every change must be recompiled and uploaded (that’s down side of esphome) and when i’m doing a dozen or more of that compiles then seconds start to add up.