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.
Home server?
I have a dedicated home server that runs Unraid. It is primarily used to download and host media (Plex, sonarr, radarr, etc.) but I’ve also found it can be used for home automation purposes.
You can run Home Assistant in a VM/Docker. I primarily use Hubitat, but have a “Echo Speaks” plugin self hosted on a docker container.