Incoming Home Assistant Blue!

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I was looking for a low-power dedicated server to run my Home Assistant instance on so last week I ordered a Home Assistant Blue. This is an ODROID N2+ with a fancy home-assistant branded housing. I just had notice that it's shipped and will arrive tomorrow!!! Can't wait to get it set up and migrate my HA config over to it.


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