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!

  • wil_yam_sai@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    Thanks so much for the reply! I think my go to on the Raspberry Pi was that there’s literally place to slot one in on the Home Assistant Yellow, but I’m certainly not married to it! Based off the other response above what I’m thinking I could instead do would be to grab a Home Assistant Green instead of a yellow to handle the Smart home piece to start with at least, and grab a mini PC for the rest. If you have any opinions on what’s decent from the Mini PC side of things, or where you’d trust to ask, I’m all ears as have never really looked into any before.