Where are you from? Wildly guessing NZ?

What add on do you use on kodi out of interest. I’ve been on Ezra for a couple of years.

Same, real debrid or premiumize on kodi makes downloading mostly unnecessary. Occasionally I get something a bit niche I need to hunt down on torrent or Usenet, very rarely.

Same, old laptop 8th gen Intel i7, TPU, Hass and multiple other dockers including wyze bridge with 6 cheap wyze cameras.

Fair enough, I don’t notice a significant overhead but then a lot of information is inferred by patterns , project structures etc etc

Check out home assistant.