- must not add insane amounts of cost to my power bill
- Has to be upgradable if I need to add upgrades to the hardware in the future
- Has a speaker
- may want to possibly also set up node red but it depends on if I need it or not because I may just be fine with home assistants automation
- has to have wireless connectivity
- mainly setting this up to add automation around my reolink cameras linked through the reolink home hub for example getting a second camera in the same area to start recording when one detects motion or link other smart home security products like sirens or floodlights
Got myself an ASUS NUC 13th gen with an i7, have roughly 20+ docker applications running on a headless Debian 13 VM with 7 cores allocated - Proxmox as the host.
Small, quiet and powerful.