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Hi, see title. If the RPi4 with 1GB RAM is not enough then several pages on HA.IO would need to be changed. According to a merge on the HA.IO git (done on 2025-04-14) RPI3B+ (which has 1GB RAM) is not good enough. Best |
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Oh, I missed that change, thanks for the heads-up! I discussed it and we adjusted the docs a bit: home-assistant/home-assistant.io#39132 The thing is, there are many people and setups where 1 GB is completely fine. But especially once you start installing add-ons, you can run out of memory pretty fast. Once it happens, the symptoms sometimes do not point clearly to the memory being issue (we should improve on that too) and the experience people get might not be the best. So it's a valid point why we should recommend at least 2GB in the getting started guide (we recommend that value also for VMs). However, that doesn't mean devices with less than 2 GB RAM are not supported - supported models are defined by ADR-0015 and there's no minimum RAM requirement. But if you decide to run with 1 GB of RAM, you might need to restrain from installing too many/memory hungry add-ons, and/or watch closely the RAM usage to make sure there's always some headspace. |
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That's good but it might push people away who have lower specs. I mean the whole website is kinda confusing. |
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Oh, I missed that change, thanks for the heads-up! I discussed it and we adjusted the docs a bit: home-assistant/home-assistant.io#39132
The thing is, there are many people and setups where 1 GB is completely fine. But especially once you start installing add-ons, you can run out of memory pretty fast. Once it happens, the symptoms sometimes do not point clearly to the memory being issue (we should improve on that too) and the experience people get might not be the best. So it's a valid point why we should recommend at least 2GB in the getting started guide (we recommend that value also for VMs).
However, that doesn't mean devices with less than 2 GB RAM are not supported - supported mode…