I have a hardware resource of about 256MB DDR memory, CPU frequency 1GHz, storage 32GB board, it runs an embedded Linux system, now can I install HomeAssistant? Also, I would like to know what the minimum hardware configuration for installing HomeAssistant is officially recommended. Thank you for your discussions and answers. …
Maybe you can install it , but the questions is is workable.
If you only want to do some test, there isn’t a problem, but don’t install add-ons or to much hardware.
Raspberry Pi 3B have 1Gb and you oft see issues with it running HAOS on the forum that can be related to lack of memory.
You might be able to keep it on 1GB on core by really handling the requirement for dependencies for your setup, but it will be hard, and on an embedded system it might not be possible at all to handle it, because you not only need to remove libraries to keep the memory usage down, but also add the ones you need to run HA at all.
Thanks for @Sandalman As far as we know, there are currently four versions of Home Assistant, namely OS (operating system), Container (container), Core (core) and Supervised (that is, the previous home assistant OS, integrated image). Is it that if we only install the Core part, it can save some memory consumption, for example, it is possible to achieve 256MB to support the operation of Home Assistant.
Thanks for @WallyR The hardware configuration we are currently evaluating will be significantly smaller than that of the Raspberry Pi, so we wanted to see if there was a chance to run the HomeAssistant with 256MB of RAM.
You need to run Python 3.13 with the current version and that will be hard on a Linux with only 256Mb, if not impossible.
It will also be a quite limited experience, since USB stick radios will not be possible to use with that amount of RAM, because they often need to store the network information they handle in the RAM, so Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter and so on will have to run on external networked devices.
Thanks for @WallyR Your suggestion has helped us a lot.