Seperating Homeseer From Primary Desktop to Sole Purpose Computer. Is Vista OK

[BtrSound]

I am finally taking Homeseer off of my primary computer and going to a separate computer. I have an extra computer laying around. It is running the AMD Athelon 64 6000+ (3GH), 500MB HD, and 3MB Ram (Will likely add another MB).

I plan to have it on battery backup and auto start for HS3 Pro.

Is this sufficient?

It has Vista. Should I upgrade to Windows 10?

Any other hardware recommendations while I am at it?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

[Mr_Resistor]

Friends don't let friends use Vista. Go to Win 10 and never, ever look back. Or look into getting a NUC or other i3 / i5 small desktop. I'm all for saving a buck where I can, but a small investment now could save a world of wonky operations later.

[randy]

I have to agree with James, Vista was probably the worst. Resource hungry, slow and unstable - three things you don’t want in something controlling your home. I also would recommend Windows 10, though 7 is also reliable. If you are going to upgrade 10 would be the way to go. Don’t upgrade Vista, go with a clean install of a 64 bit version.

Linux is probably going to be the fastest and least hungry for resources, though I prefer Windows for a variety of reasons. Also not every plug-in is available in Linux.

[BtrSound]

Thanks

[Pete]

Here switched to running Homeseer 3 on two boxes to Ubuntu Linux from using Windows Server 2003 standard on Homeseer 2 way long time ago.

It never breaks and just keeps ticking. The over head is Mono which today is owned by Microsoft.

A couple of other servers are running BSD which also never breaks.

I have used Microsoft Windows since the beginning of Windows long time ago.

Just recently built a Windows 2016 Standard server and I like it better than Windows 10 Pro. Much less eye candy and much more function.

You can even run W2016 without a GUI like Linux these days.

[tenholde]

WIN Server 1016 would be great, but the OS is expensive and requires more knowledge to configure. I'm using WIN10 on dedicated NUC and love it.

[outbackrob]

Look at all the expenses to fix up that ~10yo machine. OS, memory, UPS, probably going to need a hard drive after 10 years... vs. a new or used laptop. Several years ago I was looking to upgrade my HS machine. It was 7 years old and not quite cutting the mustard. I could upgrade memory, OS, Disk and add a UPS for about $300. OR, I could buy a used IBM i5 ThinkPad with a docking station for $325. I chose the ThinkPad. It was about 4 years ago. It has run HS and Outlook and iTunes 24/7 ever since. No issues. It allowed me to dramatically decrease the footprint, heat and volume level of my wiring closet. When we moved a year+ ago, I was able to carve out a portion of a coat closet and put everything in there. No extra keyboard, mouse or monitor, and, being a laptop it already runs on a battery. Much higher WAF, too!

Just something to consider...

[jvm]

I'm basically doing the same thing - using an old Laptop but with Windows 10 to run HomeSeer together with HomeSeer to Homekit bridge software (Homebridge).. Its responsive (HomeSeer uses surprisingly little processing power) and I find it easier to set up than a Linux / RPi type setup. You can also easily bring it to devices that don't support Network Wide Inclusion (I have several Schlage locks were you need to be within a few inches of the Z-stick to include them and get proper key exchanges). The Widows Task Scheduler provides an easy to use way to have the laptop auto-login and run applications on boot (or reboot).