Hi folks, looking for a bit of steer to get off the ground with self hosting. My goals to start with are pretty straight forward:

  • I want to set up Home Assistant to move my smart devices off the cloud and fully contained within the walls of my home.
  • I want to set up my own little Pixelfed server for my family’s use, along with some other federated socials.

From what I was looking at, I think my easiest route to doing both of these things is with a Home Assistant Yellow (built-in Zigbee and Thread system) with a Raspberry Pi 4.

I’ve never done anything like this before but I’m interested in learning. If anyone more experienced has any insight or direction, I’d really appreciate it! Cheers!

  • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I got an Odroid H4+ and have been extremely happy with it. I’m sure Beelink or GMKtec mini PCs on Amazon would also be fine but I wanted SATA ports for harddrives.

    If you end up going with the Odroid, let me know and I’ll send you the links to the few things you’ll need to get going

    • wil_yam_sai@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      Thanks a million, will definitely look into in and check back in with my progress. Looking forward to getting stuck in now I must say! I think it’s gonna be a fun project!