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.
I’d run proxmox on it and then from there you’ll have flexibility to spin up any number or vms or cts with any containers you want, loads of self hosted stuff and good isolation so if anything happens to any service you have full vm backups and can nuke them separately without compromising what’s stable, that’s my setup today have about 5 VMS running and some more that I plan to mess around