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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.
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Home Assistant -> Frigate for cameras -> Keep the GPU use it with frigate for that AI stuff like object detection, people detection etc.
Not sure if energy usage is a consideration, but consider that the wyse thin client I got from ebay for £70, runs at 15 watts, and this was a drop from a Dell optiplex min destop thingy that used to run everything below at 50+ watts.
So I went from £120 a year to £35 a year and with the £85 I saved, I got a Nabu Casa subscription (£65 a year), and had enough left over to get myself a starbucks:-)
Running at 15 watts: