verdict: you cant run home assistant on a raspberry pi zero 2 W. I tried. pretty hard. swapfiles, super fast storage, some other tricks. no love. it just doesnt have enough ram perhaps if it wasnt forcing people to use docker, that would remove a FUCKLOAD OF OVERHEAD - ThreadSky

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Viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy • 141 days ago

verdict:

you cant run home assistant on a raspberry pi zero 2 W.

I tried. pretty hard. swapfiles, super fast storage, some other tricks. no love. it just doesnt have enough ram

perhaps if it wasnt forcing people to use docker, that would remove a FUCKLOAD OF OVERHEAD

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privacycore.tech•140 days ago

You can also try to run that on a solar powered Casio calculator.
No, jokes apart, why would you? It runs pretty ok on a RPi3 and I have long migrated running it on a VM on Proxmox

jernej--s.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•141 days ago

@Viss It only works on developer's machine, so they ship the whole developer's machine…

viq.social.hackerspace.pl.ap.brid.gy•141 days ago

@Viss I've been running for quite some time HA in virtualenv in a freebsd jail, so it is possible. Not "supported", but possible.
Though I'm not certain docker gives much overhead, it's basically namespaces, and there aren't many processes running inside the container. Storage, yeah, but memory […]

viq.social.hackerspace.pl.ap.brid.gy•141 days ago

@Viss and with virtualenv, if you don't have wheel distributables available for your platform and need to build them, now *that* is going to hurt a memory constrained machine.
Though it totally sucks that HA installs dependencies *when you configure things requiring them*, making it next to […]

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