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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by p5f20w18k to c/homeassistant
 

I’m planning to put HA on a pi, with a usb antenna

I can’t decide which bulbs to use, Philips hue looks great but it’s pricey and I’m pretty sure it’s got too much “phone home” crap. I don’t want anything to leave my network. If I can use Hue bulbs without the hub, or block the hub from phoning home I would consider it?

I found some Sengled bulbs that look fine, but I don’t know if they are any good.

Can someone recommend some decent bulbs? Colour ones preferably, but white is OK too.

Any other advice? Got a home server, so can host just about anything to get this working together.

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[–] p5f20w18k 2 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Thanks for the advice, I'll look at the docs.

How's your RAM usage for HA? The pi I have is only 2gb, already runs pihole but I can buy another/run HA on my server, but if I don't need to, then I won't.

[–] Giulo 3 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I ran HA on a pi 3 and then upgraded to a NUC with a Celeron using 4gb of RAM mostly because I used Plex at that time and needed better transcoding.

You can try running HAOS supervised on your Pi. Running supervised will let you run addons within HA such as pihole, Zigbee2mqtt, Mosquitto, Node-RED and others. After that, you can verify if you actually need to upgrade your hardware. You'll probably be fine with that amount of RAM.

[–] fluxx 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

When you switched from pi3 to NUC , did you notice any performance improvements? I'm asking because I run my setup on a rpi3 and it mostly works ok, but the latency is sometimes high, so I'm wondering if upgrading the host will improve things.

[–] AwkwardPenguin 2 points 2 years ago

For me i did. It was buggy on a rasp all the time. Plus from time to time memory would clog up and the instance would stop functioning. Haven't had any issues since upgrading to the nuc. It just works and I migrated all devices to USB radios. So Bluetooth, Zigbee, zwave, serial power meter, serial heat meter, serial ups, everything just connects without hubs or anything.

Would definitely recommend! Just get a cheap second hand one on eBay or so.

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