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  • I have a non-touch 1080p one I got for work, 80€, brand is Arzopa. Works fine, uses USBC for power and video which is quite cool since it's a single cable, it has 2 usbc ports, I guess if you have a lower power output on your PC's port you can add a power brick, they're also both functional so if one breaks you still have the other one. It also has a mini HDMI port.
    It came with three cables: usbc-usbc, usbc-usbc, miniHDMI-HDMI, all three good quality.
    It has folder case but carrying it in my backpack damaged it anyway, I have a couple bright spots, but they're rarely visibile.

  • If you take charge of maintaining this system, maybe it would be easier to install HA supervised in a docker container and have another container for wireguard+syncthing.

    A pi5 with 8gb should be enough unless your parents' HA is an hypertrophic installation with hundreds of devices.

  • I had an embedded Celeron server, passively cooled with 1 hard drive and 2 SSD which used to idle in the range you mentioned, measured at the outlet... It had a random PSU that came with the mini case it was in.
    Realistically, how low do you aim to go? Disks for example add a lot of wattage.

  • It's possible but honestly it's a bit off-putting to me.
    For scheduled actions I use the Scheduler addon:

    It's mostly for covers and awnings, I don't schedule lights on and off, I enable their motion sensors depending on the time of day, but that's a more complex automation and I wrote it in Node-RED, which to me is a cleaner approach than the automation system in HA.

    The Scheduler has the advantage of being wife-accessible too!