I want to build a x86 small form factor computer in order to run the router and home assistant on it, and I’m looking for the best solution:
At first I though on setting up HaOS as a router and using a dhcp plugin on homeassistant, but is a very barebones setup without much advanced networking capabilities. Also I didn’t find a way to easily setup WAN.
Then I though I could set up a hypervisor and run a router OS like VyOS or openwrt and HaOS. I know proxmox, but maybe there are lighter hypervisor more capable of delivering this setup.
And finally I though that I could use openwrt and install (either natively or via docker) homeassistant on it. This currently seems like the less headachy way, but I could be totally wrong.
I can’t find much documentation on either of those methods, so I’m asking to you what would you do, and if somebody is using a similar setup, to share some insights.
Once upon a time I had a little intel j1900 box with esxi on it, running pfsense in one vm and ubuntu + docker in another.
that lasted right up until I broke it, and seperated the two out again, having a home NAS and a ubiquity UDM instead for a router.
Life was too short to juggle that setup.
Similar story here, it’s a great idea until it goes wrong, then you’ve got two appliances down instead of one.
My Home Assistant instance has become so mission critical to my household that I’ve got a dedicated Pi 4 for it, with a fallback Pi 4 and preflashed SD card ready to hot swap and restore from backup.
