Home Assistant
Home automation hub for lights, sensors, radios and energy monitoring.
Often wants USB radios and discovery on the local network, which is easy at home and awkward on a rented machine.
Planning figures used by the calculators: RAM 2 GB (vendor documented), CPU 2 cores (vendor documented), storage 32 GB (vendor documented). These cover the application itself. Your own photos, films, documents and recordings are entered separately as data storage.
The table lists every figure we hold, what kind of claim it is, and the fragment of the archived document it came from.
Source: Home Assistant installation on Linux, retrieved 2026-09-08, archived as document 3 on the sources page.
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| property | value | basis | evidence | document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpu plan cores | 2 cores | vendor documented | Quoted from the archived document: virt-install --name haos --description "Home Assistant OS" --os-variant=generic --ram=4096 --vcpus=2 | Document 3, retrieved 2026-09-08 |
| cpu reco cores | 2 vCPU | vendor documented | Quoted from the archived document: virt-install --name haos --description "Home Assistant OS" --os-variant=generic --ram=4096 --vcpus=2 | Document 3, retrieved 2026-09-08 |
| network need | Local network access for discovery and USB radios | our estimate | Our reasoning: Zigbee and Z-Wave sticks plug into the machine and many integrations discover devices on the same LAN. A rented machine needs a tunnel or a local proxy for both. | No document, our reasoning only |
| ram min gb | 2 GB | vendor documented | Quoted from the archived document: Memory: 2 GB of RAM | Document 3, retrieved 2026-09-08 |
| ram plan gb | 2 GB | vendor documented | Quoted from the archived document: Memory: 2 GB of RAM | Document 3, retrieved 2026-09-08 |
| storage plan gb | 32 GB | vendor documented | Quoted from the archived document: Select the name of your new VM and select the capacity number for your disk. Here, you can expand the disk to whatever your needs are. The default is 32 GB. | Document 3, retrieved 2026-09-08 |
| storage reco gb | 32 GB | vendor documented | Quoted from the archived document: Select the name of your new VM and select the capacity number for your disk. Here, you can expand the disk to whatever your needs are. The default is 32 GB. | Document 3, retrieved 2026-09-08 |