I repurposed an old gaming PC as a Proxmox server, stuck HA on a VM and have never looked back. Backups are easier, it’s blazing fast, I can have 90 days of history if I feel to, upgrades/reboots take seconds instead of minutes.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my Pis and use them for my 3D printers and such, but Home Assistant is a lot for a Pi to manage well at times.

Having said that… I too am curious about the performance bump here especially considering the SD card write speed increase and the PCI-E (SSD) capability. I’m sure it’ll still kill SD cards every 6 months with HA running on it though.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm running HA on an esxi VM on a gen10 proliant server for the same reasons.

I made the joke because the max spec pi 4 is just reaching breaking point based on testing a recent upgrade on a HA instance I previously had on there.

If the pi 5 copes better that still opens HA up for a generation of new home automators without having to invest a lot of cash or maintain software and hardware for a non-SBC.

I hope this trend doesn't continue with HA though; it's getting very resource heavy. It's my second most resource intensive VM after a windows VM which says a lot....