I have a windows 10 home server I use for blue iris and some other things. It’s on an IntelNUC with 2 cores but with 16 gig ram.
I’m currently running a Brinks alarm with 2GIG system (until my contract is up, them Ima GTFO) and a bunch of Sonoff/Shelly devices, as well as an arduino switch. For software I have windows 10, a few IFTTT, a light weight web server with php which uses an old iphone for an HTPC remote, a series of BAT files to integrate the PHP in the web server with EventGhost. It doesn’t (can’t?) use MQTT but that’s not a big deal to me.
Everything is working pretty well, but sometimes it’s not as responsive as I’d like. It may be BlueIris and my 6 wired cameras pitching a fit, but I bet Home Assistant would be a better replacement for eventghost.
I don’t see myself switching over to linux, I love blue iris.
So finally, my question is: **Granted that I’m staying on Win10, would it be better to run Hass.io in a VM or run the “native” python windows version **
I’ve already got the VM running (though I forgot my pw so I’m going to redo it). I read on this website that the linux version is better, but will I really notice? I’ve got the RAM, but will running the linux in a VM make a performance difference? I currently have NOTHING setup. Thanks.