I’ve got a PC the kids and I built years ago as a gaming machine that we don’t use anymore. Thinking of repurposing it for use with my home automation setup (replacing my current Raspberry Pi 4 with Home Assistant installed).
It’s certainly COMPLETELY overkill for that, so I’m curious what other ways I can make use of it as a home automation server of some sort. Or maybe there’s some reason it’s actually a bad idea to use it at all for this?
Specs…
- CPU: Intel i3-8100 3.6Ghz
- Memory: 8GB
- Storage: 2TB
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
- Motherboard: B360M Pro-VDH MS-7B24
Currently has Windows 11 installed on it.
you can now use integrated intel GPU with Frigate, much more power efficient. I’d sell the GPU.
But can you, with reasonable latency, run speech to text or text to speech?
I’ve got a couple frigate cameras with object detection, STT and TTS running, and using like 2.8 gigs of VRAM. I might just bump up the quality on the STT and/or TTS actually…