An ongoing theme with the developers

Posted May 27, 2025 17:48 UTC (Tue) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779)
In reply to: An ongoing theme with the developers by philh
Parent article: Home Assistant deprecates the "core" and "supervised" installation modes

I find it amusing that anything that depends on 600+ Python packages and wants 2GB+ RAM “for a basic setup” describes itself as “very lean”. I mean, what stuff exists in this space that has higher requirements?

An ongoing theme with the developers

Posted May 27, 2025 18:09 UTC (Tue) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

It depends on 600 Python packages only if you activate each and every one of the gazillion integrations that come with Home Assistant. Fortunately the typical home uses far fewer than 100 different kinds of device.

The reason you want more than enough RAM isn't that you can't set up a usable system with less, one of my test systems runs perfectly well in a 400MB VM. The reason is that if there's even a hint of memory pressure, the system might need to swap something in when you hit a light switch. Few things in a home automation setup are more annoying to the users, esp. the not-computer-savvy ones, than random delays.