Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

Post by vladgur » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 9:24 AM UTC

lostlogin wrote: post #55

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Probably none. But Synology software updates could brick anything at any time.

This doesn’t seem like a likely problem. However moving my install off a Synology and into a vm on a nuc (keeping it in docker) made a massive difference to response times and performance. It’s hard to beat the combo of more ram, more cpu and nvme.

Post by dudleypippin » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 10:44 AM UTC

e_proxus wrote: post #57

Tangentially related: I frequently start long-running shell commands and go make a coffee. Is there an easy way to send a notification from my Mac to my iPhone? You would think it would be a use case for Automator or Shortcuts but I don’t think it’s possible? There are various apps that can do this but everyone I’ve found is very enterprise oriented and fairly expensive. I just want to send local network notification…

Post by onedr0p » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 11:19 AM UTC

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> either you run their closed down Docker image or their even more closed down Linux distro where you can’t enable ssh without an add on What would you suggest? For their target audience (people who are tech savvy, but don't necessarily know anything about Linux or programming) this seems like the ideal way to distribute it. Their website also has virtual machine images in various formats, and instructions to manuall…

I also wish there was an option for people wanting to have a bit more control or fit it more tidily into an existing home stack. I hacked my own container image so that I could run it in my home k8s, but it wasn't easy — there are lots of undocumented dependencies, and there's no clear separation of state and config. It has by far the untidiest architecture of all the software I run on my home servers. Once it's up a…

Post by magicalhippo » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 12:14 PM UTC

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I use openHAB, but they're comparable enough I guess. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 that runs it, with a connected Aeotec Z-Wave USB stick that I have all my smart switches, thermostat, security system, etc. connected to. The OS is running off a SD card, and despite the horror stories I hear about them wearing out and dying, mine's been running for a couple years now without issue. I've been planning to replace it with a S…

I burned through 3 SD cards (even "endurance" SD cards) before I finally switched to an NVMe over USB for my HA RaspPi. I highly recommend the switch even if you aren't having card failures. The performance improvement alone makes it worthwhile.

Post by Kstile » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 1:21 PM UTC

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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.