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Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by ArchOversight »

darkteflon wrote: post #18
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, dedicat…

Once the Linux on M1 becomes available you could run it that way. Right now the issue is that Home Assistant relies on being on the same network (bridged into the container) as the rest of your devices so it can see the broadcasted messages from IoT devices.

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Post by gpanders »

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.

Ecobee works with HomeKit, which works without an internet connection. You don’t need an Apple device either, as HA has a HomeKit bridge.

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Post by Negitivefrags »

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.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/#climate

Look at this list and go into each page to see the “IoT class”.

“Local push” is the best but “Local polling” would satisfy your requirements as well.

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Post by balloob »

candiddevmike wrote: post #20

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.

It’s all clearly defined in ADR-007 https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/blob/master/a...

The TL;DR: Authentication for devices and services are via the UI only (to deal with OAuth2, refresh tokens, auto-updating IPs via mDNS). Automations/scripts/scenes are both YAML or UI.

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Post by johntash »

candiddevmike wrote: post #20

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.

What did you switch to, if anything?

I eventually just stopped updating altogether due to the constant breaking changes, but haven't settled on anything else yet.

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Post by hanklazard »

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.

The Venstars have been good to me and have a local api that integrates with HA. They are more basic in appearance, but that’s never bothered me.

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Post by mason55 »

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.

I have the Honeywell T6 Pro Z-wave. Works great but any Z-wave will be fine.

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by tyingq »

Gatsky wrote: post #13
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.

Two somewhat inexpensive NUC substitutes I've used:

a) Asus Chromebox CN60. Under $50 used. You have to open it up to put it in dev mode, then go to https://mrchromebox.tech/ to get a BIOS that can boot Linux. Uses removable DIMMS and M.2 SATA so it's easy to upgrade if needed. Includes WiFi.

b) Older Lenovo Tiny models, like the M72, M83, M93P, etc. A little larger than the NUC form factor, but not by much. You can find them under $100 with an i3 or i5, 8GB ram, and sometimes an HDD or very small SSD. Most of them also include WiFi.

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