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Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by setum » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 2:17 AM UTC

threatofrain wrote: post #7

What kind of hardware do people install Home Assistant hubs on? Does anyone have a good guide to a minimal but clean smart home setup?

I had it running on raspberry pi 3 earlier, but I have now moved it to kubernetes (k3s) running from my NAS (x64).

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by chomp » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 2:17 AM UTC

threatofrain wrote: post #7

What kind of hardware do people install Home Assistant hubs on? Does anyone have a good guide to a minimal but clean smart home setup?

I have mine on one of these: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-xu4q-special-price/

I snagged a zwave dongle to run my lights and it works great.

People run it on everything from Raspberry Pis to Intel NUCs depending on what you wanna do. Some integrations need node, most python, and having a bunch of scheduled scripts firing at once can make the UI a tad slow. If you have a bunch of IoT stuff, I’d probably not throw it on a tiny pi zero for instance.

You can follow these instructions if you’re using an odroid: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/odroid

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by Gatsky » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 2:18 AM UTC

threatofrain wrote: post #7

What kind of hardware do people install Home Assistant hubs on? Does anyone have a good guide to a minimal but clean smart home setup?

I use the cheapest intel NUC I could find, with an old SSD and an Aeotec Z-wave USB stick.

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by ViViDboarder » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 2:20 AM UTC

gruez wrote: post #6

sen wrote: post #2

Very handy considering myself (and most people I know) have their HA+devices setup with as local-only. I don’t want my home automation connected to the internet at all, but I still want notifications if my kids room temps dropped too low or my garage door opens in the middle of the night.

What type of smart theromstat allow local only operation? The popular ones I've looked at (nest, ecobee, honeywell) all look like they require internet connection to work.

Any Z-Wave one will operate locally. I just set one up the other day in Home Assistant.

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 2:21 AM UTC

BrittonR wrote: post #10

threatofrain wrote: post #7

What kind of hardware do people install Home Assistant hubs on? Does anyone have a good guide to a minimal but clean smart home setup?

I think the majority of people use a Raspberry Pi. Personally I use Pi4 with a SSD running Ubuntu. I run Home Assistant using Docker.

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Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by balloob » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 2:21 AM UTC

threatofrain wrote: post #7

What kind of hardware do people install Home Assistant hubs on? Does anyone have a good guide to a minimal but clean smart home setup?

You can see the most popular board types in Home Assistant Analytics @ https://analytics.home-assistant.io/

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by ViViDboarder » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 2:22 AM UTC

barbazoo wrote: post #5

sen wrote: post #2

Very handy considering myself (and most people I know) have their HA+devices setup with as local-only. I don’t want my home automation connected to the internet at all, but I still want notifications if my kids room temps dropped too low or my garage door opens in the middle of the night.

Local only as in you can only use it and get notified when connected to your LAN?

Yes. Local push would mean you’d only get notified when at home.

Home Assistant has had non-local push for a while now. I use that for door unlock and alarm notifications because I want them when I’m away. It’ll be handy to move less urgent ones to local only though.

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by darkteflon » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 2:28 AM UTC

threatofrain wrote: post #7

What kind of hardware do people install Home Assistant hubs on? Does anyone have a good guide to a minimal but clean smart home setup?

I was keen to run it on Docker on my M1 Mac Mini ~6 months ago but, apparently on account of some limitation concerning the way Docker handles networking on M1 Macs - at least at the time - was unable to.

Has anyone managed to get this working? I run a bunch of homelab services as Docker containers on the always-on, power sipping M1 so getting this set up too would mean I could avoid having to use a separate, dedicated Pi.

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by balloob » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 2:39 AM UTC

afavour wrote: post #8

This is very cool. I'm still hoping one day Home Assistant will add support for Google Home's Local API to avoid going over the internet to perform internal operations from a Home: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/google-home-local-home...

It’s implemented but it still requires an official Google Assistant smart home skill and a cloud connection to set-up. It works out of the box with Home Assistant Cloud.

It’s kinda cool how it works, as your Google Home Mini will run our JS app and let it interact with Home Assistant. In the case of Home Assistant Cloud, all commands are just forwarded as-is as all processing is always local. You can see the source here https://github.com/NabuCasa/home-assistant-google-assistant-...

Note, syncing local access, exposed devices and any command requiring 2FA still goes via the cloud.

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by candiddevmike » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 2:43 AM UTC

Has Home Assistant settled on what you can configure via YAML and what needs to be done via the web UI yet? I left the ecosystem last year after the split became too hard to mentally keep track of.