Hello everyone, I’m trying to embark on a new journey and I need some guidance. I’d like to deploy my first Home Assistant instance in my new house since I never got around to do that where I currently live (you get into the groove and don’t want to disturb your own peace) and this big of a change is a good excuse to do so.
I’ve been looking at some mini PCs to deploy the Home Assistant distro a base OS I haven’t chose yet and possibly run Ollama along side it with a tiny model that could make the voice commands and queries a little smarter. I don’t need complex things like spitting facts, just the usual things like polling sensors status, sending commands to devices, set timers and do math I can’t do off the top of my head.
Now the budget for this project is 500$ max and I’ve found some Intel 12th gen and AMD 6xxx computers and my idea was to run Llama3.2 1b at a minimum, 3b would be ideal for my use case.
Do you think there’s enough horse power in one of those machines for my needs?
Thanks!
