I’m totally new to Home assistant and few other thing.
Just got a new house and I would like to smartiphy my home and I’m starting from the ground up.
It’s hard to find a correct guidez so I thought of asking here.
I first I would like to build a NAS and slap home assistant on it but I would like to use that NAS as entertainment centre as well, will it be possible?
In a future planning to install camera/doorbell garage door and other think link to home assistant.
Others can fill you in on more details, but as an overview:
Yes. You can do what you’re asking about (combination NAS & HA with camera support).
I wouldn’t recommend going with a Raspberry PI or other small system like that for all that. You’ll likely be better served with an NUC or other PC variant with a decent processor and full SSD & USB3 support. The reason for this is that each of the above require some processing and I/O chops to do at a decent speed. (You’ll want your NAS and HA to be running simultaneously and camera support also adds some need for storage and I/O as well.)
You’ll probably want to go with an SSD for the primary drive (for the OS and HA) and you can choose whether you want the more expensive SSD approach or standard hard drives for your NAS. SSDs have speed advantages, but they cost more and they aren’t available in nearly as large capacities.
You’ll probably want to run Linux on the system with the NAS and HA running in separate virtual machines. (You can also add a separate security camera VM for doing person recognition, etc.) You can do this on a Windows system as well (I am), but folks seem to be more pleased with the Linux approach. (My reason for going Windows is to run Blue Iris camera software which only runs on Windows.)
Hopefully this will get you to the point where you can search more specifically and ask other questions to get to the system that works best for you.
Thanks for you reply.
I was already considering going with a like tomahawk and even cheaper motherboard and cheap Intel i3/i5 with 256 nvme SSD for the boot and like few 3/4TB spining drive, I was thinking the WD red but not sure if it a good idea.
I run on a 2006 supermicro with Dual Xeon (dual core), 36GB and a 1 TB WD red drive. It will run on a raspberry pi so your proposed HW is not a problem. I keep my NAS (XigmaNAS) on another machine. Just my preference. I am a wholly linux shop at home. I run ubuntu 20.04 on my HA server. I run ubiquity router, AP, switches. Better than residential equipment.
My favorite devices are Shelly. I have 89 z-wave nodes and they work great but had to install surge protection at all my panels because I was frying alot of devices.
Take a look at unraid for your NAS OS. I run HA and several other dockers with 16TB of storage for media.Very easy to setup and supports a wide range of hardware.
You don’t. At least I’m not aware of any NAS that uses massively parallel processing. You don’t really need a GPU per se for HA. It will run just fine on graphics built into the processor (but you will need that at least )
Just bit confused on the hard drive is the WD Red/ Seagate Ironwolf a must have or just normal WD Blue/ barracuda will do?
Looking at an access point as well, what is recommended?
I have 1gb fibre hook up to my house.
And down the line I want to try to put some PoE security camera as well. So I was thinking of a PoE acces point 801.ax if anyone got recommendation.