Edit: Both are sold!
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I bought two of these HP Prodesk Minis in the past and they are perfect for Home Assistant. Only selling because I found a great deal on another machine.
Important Specs:
- CPU: i5-4590T (4 cores/threads)
- SSD: 120 GB SanDisk Drive
- 4GB of RAM (can expand for additional cost but its not needed for just HA)
- Under 7"x7"x1.5" package
- Intel NIC (I beleive this is important for NUC image/driver compatibility)
- Uses ~18w or less (my ups only reports in 9 watt increments)
This will run circles around a PI and there is no worrying about SD card wear. When I moved from away from a PI the biggest change I noticed was how much quicker config checks run (generally the animation doesn’t make a full circle) and restarts are much quicker also.
Home Assistant Compatibility:
Tested today with the following:
- Home Assistant OS 5.11
- Supervisor 2021.02.6
- Core 2021.2.3
There was no issues flashing the HA NUC Image to a SSD and running HA. There are no compatibility issues noted on the supervisor and the wired and wifi connections (not recommend, run wired) both work. I have also run these with past versions of HassOS/Supervisor/Core and never ran into issues.
There is also compatability for basically any other OS or Hypervisor you would install on a PC. I have run these machines with Ubuntu, Debian, and VMware ESXi.
What you get:
HP Prodesk Mini 600 Gen 1 (128 GB Sandisk SSD swapped in)
Power Supply
Windows License (License on bottom of Machine is for Windows 7 but activates Windows 10 also)
USPS tracked Shipping to the lower 48 in the US onlyPrice: $100 shipped to US48
If you are interested, send me a PM and we can work out details. I can also provide links to feedback where I have sold things on other forums if interested.
Downsides to a Prodesk Mini?
- About the only upgrades/options you have are to swap out a compatible CPU and/or increase the size of the SSD. There is no other expansion options.
- If you are coming from a Pi, there are no GPIO pins on these devices
- I know the typical power draw is higher than a Pi and is likely higher than a typical NUC would draw. (this is the tradeoff for having a desktop processor and additional compute power.)
