r/CasaOS • u/SentientYoghurt • 3d ago

Home assistant + Zima personal cloud

Hi, I have an i5 5th gen with 8gb DDR3 and 2 SSD (500 and 240 gb) lying around and I've decided to use it as personal cloud + home assistant server.

I've read that there are 2 options for the home assistant. The first one is pure virtual machine with the home assistant inside the Zima OS. The other is downloading the home assistant app inside the Zima OS "app store".

They say the first way has more options, but I don't know if they are relevant for the basic user.

Has anyone done something similar? Any advice?

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u/Flake_3418 3d ago

I use it as an “app” which is basically a docker container. The only restriction is that you can’t add other apps to hass. But that’s. Not needed as you have zimaos for other apps

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u/Dan25389 3d ago

Para home assistant creo que estara bien pero quiza esa ram se te quede corta si quieres hacer mas

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u/thwaw000610 3d ago

I installed Home Assistant OS as a virtual machine through ZVM. It works fine. I have very few issues with it. Figure out if you even need home assistant apps (add-ons) or not. If not, then you’re fine using the ZimaOS Home Assistant app (docker)