Homebox — system requirements

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No official figure published for: minimum RAM, recommended RAM, minimum CPU cores, recommended CPU cores

No stated minimum or recommended RAM/CPU requirement exists in official Homebox sources (README, docs site quick-start). The README's project-principles section offers only an observed idle-usage anecdote, not a requirement: "In general, idle memory usage is less than 50MB for the whole container." This is an OBSERVED idle figure for a single-user/empty-inventory instance, not a stated minimum or recommended requirement (Defect Class #2), so it is preserved here as descriptive context only, not filed as ram_min_mb/ram_rec_mb.

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External services

No required external services (source)

Homebox uses an embedded SQLite database and embedded web UI; the official docker-compose.yml and README both run a single homebox container with no external database or cache service.

Container

Image: ghcr.io/sysadminsmedia/homebox:latest · compressed size (amd64): 49 MB · architectures: amd64, arm64 · source, retrieved 2026-08-30

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