What's The Best Hardware To Power Your Home Assistant System?

If you're thinking of starting a Smart Home and using Home Assistant then deciding on what hardware to use is one of the biggest decisions and perhaps the most important one to make.

In this video I'm going through just some of the many common options you could choose to install Home Assistant on to. How much they cost and what you might need to buy extra to get going, and lets not forget the experience level you might need to get it all running.

Getting it right first time will save you the job of upgrading later on but equally you don't want to blow your budget leaving you with little left to buy all the great Smart Home gadgets to play around with.

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👇Below are just some of the devices mentioned in this video.

Raspberry Pi 4 8GB (Amazon UK): https://amzn.to/4gmUIJE
Raspberry Pi 4 8GB Starter Kit (Amazon UK): https://amzn.to/4gorVnP

Raspberry Pi 5 8GB (Amazon UK): https://amzn.to/49sUjTz
Raspberry Pi 5 8GB Starter Kit (Amazon UK): https://amzn.to/3BfvjCI

Home Assistant Green (Direct): https://www.home-assistant.io/green/
Home Assistant Yellow (Direct): https://www.home-assistant.io/yellow/

ODROID 4GB (Amazon UK): https://amzn.to/4g0rsbS
Intel NUC (Amazon UK): https://amzn.to/49smsdw

🚨 Not featured in the video but previously reviewed on the channel, the LinknLink iSG Display Max: https://shop.linknlink.com/products/linknlink-isg-display-max

ℹ️ Alternatively if you'd rather a pre-owned device then consider searching eBay for Intel NUC, Lenovo Tiny PC, Dell OptiPlex Mini PC, HP EliteDesk Mini PC etc.

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ℹ️ *CHAPTERS*
0:00 Intro
0:33 Welcome
1:22 The Options
2:00 Home Assistant Green
3:20 Raspberry Pi
6:26 ODROID
6:57 Home Assistant Yellow
8:48 NAS
10:39 Virtualisation
12:12 Other Hardware
13:00 NUC & Mini PC
15:43 Thoughts
16:07 Outro