I’ve got a PC the kids and I built years ago as a gaming machine that we don’t use anymore. Thinking of repurposing it for use with my home automation setup (replacing my current Raspberry Pi 4 with Home Assistant installed).

It’s certainly COMPLETELY overkill for that, so I’m curious what other ways I can make use of it as a home automation server of some sort. Or maybe there’s some reason it’s actually a bad idea to use it at all for this?

Specs…

  • CPU: Intel i3-8100 3.6Ghz
  • Memory: 8GB
  • Storage: 2TB
  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
  • Motherboard: B360M Pro-VDH MS-7B24

Currently has Windows 11 installed on it.

  • poltavsky79@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I would sell the GPU, because it’s definitely not needed, the rest is quite suitable for a home server — install Linux, Proxmox, HA, Scrypted, Torrent, Plex, ad blocker of some sort and etc.

    • Stone_The_Rock@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Disagree - it could be use for object detection in a NVR setup like frigate, or to enable additional hardware transcoding in Plex. And the 1050 is pretty energy efficient as I recall (for “old” gear)! Doesn’t seem like a negative to keep to me!