No Raspberry Pi For Home Assistant? No Problem!

Raspberry Pi's are easily the single most popular platform out there in terms of installations, especially for Home Assistant. However, we all know getting our hands on one is getting increasingly more difficult and if we do find one, they are often being sold for way over their normal retail price! In this video, I talk through the 8 hardware alternatives for the Raspberry Pi that I have been testing for a while now that are capable of running Home Assistant.

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0:00 - Intro
0:48 - Adaprox Sponsor
1:28 - Khadas VIM3L
5:59 - Odroid n2+
9:26 - ROCKPro64
12:53 - reTerminal
17:03 - Atomic Pi
20:25 - Odyssey
23:57 - Dell 3040
27:13 - Amber Plus

[CaliflowerQueen]

My Home Assistant Yellow just arrived. But the ETA on my back order for the RPi 4 compute module (RPi CM4) is December 2023! So in the interim I've ordered a BigTreeTech CB1 for $30.50 USD including shipping.
The company appears to create electronics for 3D printers and were using the RPi CM4 and their info says they launched the CB1 recently due to shortage of the RPis.
The CB1 is designed to with the same BTB headers as a the RPi CM4 so it should fit the Home Assistant Yellow. I cant see any show stoppers at this point, but you never know until you plug it in so im keeping my fingers crossed.

[blakemcneill]

I think they should have continued with the Home Assistant Blue as it was a very nice little system (but doesn't heat my basement like the Pi4 does) and very user friendly and attractive, especially to people just getting into Home Assistant. That said since Home Assistant is becoming a full blown automation system (Microsoft was too early with Home Server), with security camera etc, you can quickly scale up your system such that old mini PCs become sought after (Home Assistant Green, recycling old computers) and the Pi shortage couldn't have come at a better time for Home Assistant as it is forcing them to stay pretty much platform independent as this will pay off nicely for the user community in the long run.

[pietke.]

Great video! Thank you! I have Home Assistant running on a Gigabyte BRIX GB-BMCE-5105. Cost around +-200 euros, is released end of 2021 and has a lot of power!

[atvarsgr]

I run my HA on Mac mini M1 (16Gb/512Gb) with 2 Debian VM, one for Home Assistant and another for Apache Web server. Additionally MacOS runs MySQL server and bunch of Selenium python scripts for web scraping (one of them getting hourly electricity prices from NordPool). In my opinion it is the best setup, because of power efficiency and performance. Power consumption is around 6-8W. Only drawback is the price of this great machine itself.

[diederikmaes]

Nice lineup. I've been extremely happy since I moevd HASS from RPi to HASS Blue (Odroid). Never had a crash again while RPi got stuk every 3-4 days.

[chukaonline]

I have been running HA OS on a Beelink T4 mini pro with 4GB Ram and 64GB emmc for at least 6 months now. Works flawlessly.

[lisakingscott]

Useful vid. The low level background music drove me mad though as I kept thinking my phone or doorbell was ringing in another room.

[marcindomanski]

Thank you for all the work you put into this test. My Raspberry Pi3b+ (1GB) is dying after recent HA updates

[metarichard]

I love the attention to detail and appreciate the work thank you!

[hamzaelghazi]

Your content is great man, very helpful and on the point, just want to say keep it up 👍

[mariocastelhano]

Well done! A concise and detailed explanation on the Raspberry PI options. I have two Intel NUC's now running in two different locations. My eyes were looking for the Ambar😃but maybe for another project. Thank you for your suggestions. All the Best.

[jubblybits]

I’m running a hp t620 thin client with os. Has a 1.6 amd dual core, 16gb ssd, 8gb ddr3. Works perfectly and only cost 32 shipped from eBay.

[ericapelz]

I've been running HA on a Dell Wyse 5070 Thin Client Celeron J4105 4GB DDR4 with an upgraded 128 GB M.2 SATA drive for $16. It's fanless and draws about 7 watts. I paid $40 for it on eBay, and it's been fast and rock solid. I am contemplating trying a Google Coral M.2 in the WIFI card slot since I don't use wifi on this box.

[uSlackr]

this was a great idea! Thanks for listing the options

[junkins]

Just received my Dell 3060 today. Can't wait to set it up!

[Nbarack]

Thank you for the great comparisons, great video!

I would add a few OrangePi boards as they have a very good feature sets at a competitive price and power consumption..

[reviewassistant]

Paid £35 for Pi 4 4GB last year or so, happy with it, low wattage, does what I need no noise via wifi in a drawer

[WoottonRivers]

Really good video. Not just because of the shortage of Pi's but also for people looking to upgrade their HA hardware.

One question: can the FingerBot be used with Home Assistant? How?

[adiands]

Thanks for the awesome video! Do you know of any similar options to the Seeed Odyssey (which has internal SATA headers)? Unfortunately with shipping, customs and sales tax, the Odyssey becomes extremely expensive for EU customers.

[Airbag]

Please let us know the alternative to run frigate/doubletake/deepstack without a coral ? As I understand you can quantify capabilities by mentioning the number of frames per second a rig can handle with inference etc in place.