setup for HA and zoneminder and possibly some other simple stuff?

[JimLS]

Have a Dell Optiplex 5040 with i7-6700 and 16 GB of DDR3 ram and hoping to run Home Assistant and Zoneminder. New to proxmox. Found install instructions for HA using a VM and Zoneminder using LXC. Would also like to run a simple python script that I have been running on a pi - it gets some simple text strings from a USB serial port and plays some sounds. I could probably rework that to run under HA but thinking I would like to just run it as is at least to start. Seems like overkill to run a whole VM or OS to just for a few scripts but what other options are there?

I am not doing much with HA, at least not yet. Just a couple time triggered events. For zoneminder I have 5 cameras - modest frame rates and resolution and doing some motion detection on a couple of them. Realize there are probably lots of different opinions but is this a reasonable way to set this up? Is the hardware adequate? TIA.

 

[JimLS]

Looks like it's easy enough to set up Alpine for the scripts and it's very lightweight.

 

[tonyalbers]

Proxmox will run fine on that hardware.
Can't say whether Proxmox makes sense for you, but remember that there might not be any reason to split your workload on to different vms, one might be enough for most of it. On another note: If you get tired of Zoneminder's resource usage you should take a look at Motion and Motioneye(make sure to use the latest beta of Motioneye if you want to check it out)

HTH

/tony

 

[JimLS]

Thanks! Now that I am into setup it looks like I could easily run the script stuff on the zoneminder vm. So easy reduction to 2 vms and I will do that. Think I will keep it at 2 at least initially.