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I am very new to HASS, like minutes old (ok a few hours) and what I’ve read I’m very interested and while I don’t have much right now (owntracks on phones) I want to make sure I set things up right the first time.

I have an Ubuntu box that is currently operating as my media server, MythTV, MQTT box. It is also running a Virtual Box which houses my Sonaar install.

What would my best option be? Spin up another Virtual box ? My ram is currently limited to 4 GB. Install HASS on the box proper or go with HASS.io on a Raspberry Pi3?
I need something that will offer the opportunity for Future growth as I slowly add new components to it.

Thanks

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Hassio on an RPi3 is solid. And it’s a popular deployment, so you’ll find that a lot of folks on the forum have the same setup.

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There is some benefit to processing power on server or when using high process components like ffmpeg. Other than that pi or Linux server is about sane

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If you already have a server up and running, there is no need to run another Pi.

On the server you have three options - a virtual environment directly on the server, a docker container or a VM.

If you were starting from scratch, I would recommend the docker installation (I’m a recent docker convert), but since you already have VirtulaBox set up, I would go with that and use the manual installation in the VM.

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Thanks for the info, I think I will spin up a VM and play with Hass from there.
If I move to some newer hardware it’ll be easy to migrate, and I don’t have to buy any new hardware which is always good.

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I went for the python virtual env option on my Ubuntu server. I do wonder if I should go for docker instead though?