I just bought a mini PC to use as a Plex Server and realised that maybe it’s a good way to host my Home Assistant instance as well. Currently HA is on a raspberry pi 4.
What’s the best approach to get both running on a mini PC? And is it even the best approach or should I just leave HA the way it is now?
Personally I would leave HAOS on the Pi as it currently is, and then look at running the rest of the stack (Plex server and then whatever else you want) on the mini PC
Sorry for the dumb question, but would I be able to achieve something similar to the Plex server Docker config you shared, but without docker? If I don’t bother trying to get HA running on the same mini PC?
I might have a play around with the mini PC before I try do anything major with HA.
Edit: have found a couple guides, so will try it out.
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I run mine (plex, sonarr, radarr, home assistant etc) in docker using docker-compose for orchestration
Heres an example one https://github.com/sebgl/htpc-download-box
Homeassistant docker https://hub.docker.com/r/homeassistant/home-assistant/
Is docker very different to HAOS? Anything major I’d have to do differently?
I’ve also heard of doing it using Proxmox, but not sure if there’s any advantages/disadvantages?
Also, thanks so much for those links. Super helpful.
Docker is sort of like a virtual machine but lighter than a VM. Proxmox I think is a virtual machine host?
https://geekflare.com/docker-vs-virtual-machine/
Personally I would leave HAOS on the Pi as it currently is, and then look at running the rest of the stack (Plex server and then whatever else you want) on the mini PC
Sorry for the dumb question, but would I be able to achieve something similar to the Plex server Docker config you shared, but without docker? If I don’t bother trying to get HA running on the same mini PC?
I might have a play around with the mini PC before I try do anything major with HA.
Edit: have found a couple guides, so will try it out.