Now my HA system gets more and more complete I learned that a raspberry pi is excellent as a start, but that I should upgrade my hardware.
Ideally I would like to upgrade in a future proof manner and rather take a few additional hassles on-board that making the move to rapidly and have to rebuild the system again in the future.
As there are many possibilities to configure HA I would appriciate some advise on the best configuration / architecture from some experts / a reference to a good read on this subject.
This quest started out by wondering about my performance degradation and bumping into this best hardware list for home assistant.
Reading through the latter article I realized I had an old Surface 2 Pro laying around on which I could install Ubuntu Linux provinding me the option to have an display to directly interact with the system if I would ever need it at all.
I could of course just do a quick read on how to install HA on linux and off we go, but so many questions have arised that a little help would be appriciated.
- Should I use Docker(s) or should I just do a plain install?
- Is it wise to distribute different system components on different hardware? Is there a need performancewise at a certain point? or is a more advanced PC capable of doing the job of a more advanced HA system? if not, when do you run into limitations?
- Should I upgrade from the default database and if so which option should I choose?
- Should I start to dig into which entities to exclude or is it no longer an issue when I upgrade my hardware?
- Should I dig into node-red or is the standard automations environment good enough? where are the limitations other than that node-red makes them graphical?
- Is there a good read on how to leave for those who leave the newbe status and get to the next level?
- What is all out there that I did not read and really should since we donât know what we donât know?