Home assistant coupled with a NAS?

banie01

Hi Folks,

I am currently using a mix of Tuya & eWeLink to control lighting and as my home alarm. All added to Google Home via the fairly straight forward integrations.

I have an old Zyxel NAS that is approaching EOL and needs replacing. That has lead to me spitballing the possibility of getting a NAS setup that has enough overhead left after file serving to also run Home Assistant?

Some Google-Fu has thrown up a few options, but? Has anyone here hands-on experience of this type of set-up? Any tips on what to avoid in particular.

yankinlk

Im sure you googled; but if not - this guy details the best synos to buy and why... down to the CPU it seems. My mate has similar setup and he added memory to make it all work. for me im tempted for this or just go with HA Green instead. https://mariushosting.com/synology-best-nas-for-docker/

banie01

Thanks for the link, I had seen Marius stuff alright, but double thanks for the HA Green suggestion. Seems a far simpler way of getting up and running than my wrecking my wife's head while I fiddle around with a pi and docker 😉

I ran a few ARM based NAS's and found that they each had some unpredictable software limitations when I attempted to extend their functionality. They also had rather flakey SATA interfaces. In the end I upgraded to a HP microserver running an old I3 processor. It's been incredibly reliable and software is much more predictable than ARM based servers. I run OpenMediaVault as my base system - but it's built on Debian so just about everything can be made to run along side of it. I run a pi-hole, Tvheadend SAT server, Torrent client, Radarr server and Urbackup. I also get it to do transcoding of dvd rips.

So my own personal experience is that going Intel was worth the extra power hit for just more reliability and versitility. It also has a really nice case with 4 drive bays and room for a SDD for the OS. I have Home Assistant setup on it but haven't used it yet.

dunleas

I have HA running on this for the last year with no issues. https://www.synology.com/en-eu/products/DS220+

dam099

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121335061#Comment_121335061

I had the opposite experience, started with Openmediavault on a HP Microserver and had it corrupt the system OS twice and become unbootable (luckily no data lost but had to re-setup shares and users etc). Maybe I was just unlucky.

Switched to Synology and its been solid and much easier to manage.

Setting up your boot disk on anything other than the first hard drive is quite tricky and if you get it wrong it will fail to boot on a regular basis. The essential settings are buried deep in the bios. Also avoid using the onboard raid because it tends to forget the details and need reconfiguring on a regular basis. Once I sorted out the wrinkles it's been flawless.

Synology just wouldn't be a reliable platform for running other server functions.

10-10-20

Proxmox virtualise it all on a medium-performance desktop for the win!

banie01

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121334389#Comment_121334389

Just on the HA Green option, I've added it my Xmas list and the Mrs has one on back order for the next round of deliveries.

Unraid (an OS) is a great option for this. Don't need a specialist NAS hardware. Can use any machine, small form with some sata ports etc. Boots from usb. Can run hassos in a VM and easily pass through any required resources (zigbee coordinator for example).

Have been running unraid myself for years doing the above. https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057539235/am-i-mad-virtualize-the-lot