If you do use the Pi for Home Assistant, save a lot of future headaches and use a proper SSD and not a SD card - there are always soooo many people having issues with SD cards after a while.

If you are thinking you’re going to be investing a good bit of time in the future with Home Assistant (you will as it’s a hell of a rabbit hole) apparently Pi’s are quite slow to work with.

A used PC (small form factor for about $200 with a 5 or 6 gen i5 CPU that ends with T and 4 gig of ram) is a suuuper snappy, future proof and reliable system to run HA on. Mine only uses ~10watt and is automating my whole house.

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