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Home Assistant waters my plants
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Re: Home Assistant waters my plants
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It's not that it's that complex to need all of this. It's about ease of use. Home Assistant OS makes life simpler for users (such as myself), it makes it easy to use adding that run as additional docker containers, it makes plugging in USB z-wave/zigbee devices a breeze. While it is technically no longer supported, you can still install the whole kit and caboodle using pip in a Python virtual environment, but why wou…
> You can still install the whole kit and caboodle using pip in a Python virtual environment, but why would you? This is how I did it, instead of the container or HA OS in a VM. If you want the simplicity of everything preconfigured, managed, and hands-off, go with HA OS, whether in a VM on a beefier machine, standalone, or the HA Green/Yellow dedicated hardware. But if you already have a home server and want to add…
Docker would be the primary other dependency for Apps support.
There's nothing wrong with running it on bare metal but this is easier with the VM image.
Re: Home Assistant waters my plants
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an intel n100/150 minipc is perfect, if you get an old enough build (don't ask) you can install proxmox on it and set up hass as a vm as God intended. if you have to ask, mine was too new and had to settle for a non-LTS Ubuntu Server. it works, but I can't wait for LTS in a few months.
What’s the issue with new ones? Proxmox should work just fine on new hardware. I’m rocking a Dell Wyse “thin client” that cost rather less than any comparable N150. It’s fanless, still gets firmware updates (via LVFS!), and takes about 5W at the wall plug.
proxmox itself should work, but the installer has a much older kernel and didn't have the network interface driver.
Re: Home Assistant waters my plants
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They're not mutually exclusive. I have Shelly relays in my light fittings (not the switches) and use smart bulbs. When everything is working the wall switches just control stuff in HA. When HA is not working the switches control the relays in the Shelly directly, without HA. This is the only solution I'm aware of that gets you all of: * dimmable, * colour temp and RGB control, * regular switches that work as expected…
Philips Hue, and Zigbee direct-binding in general, can achieve this if you're willing to use their wall switches. Still works if the hub is offline. Depends on your definition of "regular switches," I suppose -- but anyone with 3-way wiring (i.e. multiple light switches for a single socket) has given up on "up=on" for their switch.
Oh, two more things on my list that rule out the Hue switches:
* No battery powered devices in walls,
* Lights don't come on automatically following power cut.
If the Shelly relays supported ZigBee direct bind then it would be even better, but with decent ZigBee devices it's not bad with my setup.
Re: Home Assistant waters my plants
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I have almost everything in my house HA-automated, but anything touching the water supply is all on dumb physical valves and electrical timers. If my light switches don't work, that's annoying. If a robot vacuum doesn't run, that's frustrating. If a water valve is stuck open, that's catastrophic.
Catastrophic! Calm down you're not working in a chemical plant
ever had water damage in your flat?
Re: Home Assistant waters my plants
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While you can run HA as a container. I think it's a mistake - Its more complicated and has reduced features. I would instead recommend people use HAOS instead - either running on dedicated hardware OR as a VM. Just dont run it from an SD card if you go down the Raspberry Pi/SBC route - it will kill the card from IO cycles. I have an IOT VLAN on my network that all the IOT bits sit in, including WIFI devices. What int…
I go the container route, and have only had one issue: allowing HA to access my system's Bluetooth adapter. I had some ESP32s lying around, so I used ESPHome to make a Bluetooth proxy, which solved that issue. I don't run addons though, which might be part of it.
> I go the container route, and have only had one issue: allowing HA to access my system's Bluetooth adapter
Even without running in a container, I had huge problems with Bluetooth on Linux (it would just ... stop then not reappear or it would only talk to half the devices but a different set of devices every other day, etc.)
(This isn't specifically a HASS problem, mind; I've had countless problems with Linux Bluetooth since 2003 over many different iterations of hardware, OS and dongle.)
> I used ESPHome to make a Bluetooth proxy, which solved that issue.
Same. It's a great solution.
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Re: Home Assistant waters my plants
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IMO Linux system administration, KVM/Qemu, Docker, and virtual machines, and third-party tools in general are not something that should be involved in smart light bulb/sensor/pump etc management. Task for an RTOS or no OS IMO. Or a single executable that runs on any OS without config. Should be simple, fast, "just work".
Home Assistant supports an absolutely massive number of both manufacturer and community maintained integrations that are necessary for a truly universal all-in-one home automation setup without vendor lock-in. Plus, for the full HAOS experience (as a “server”) running add-ons that are convenient one-click installed Docker-based packages for popular 3rd party tools used for home automation (but not developed by Open H…
> You could definitely flip light switches and read sensors with a 20kb executable. But you’d sacrifice the core value-add of HA serving as the single lynchpin connecting every smart device you own today plus whatever you may add in the future
Very unclear what is the rationale for this claim.
It's great that Home Assistant supports "n absolutely massive number of both manufacturer and community maintained integrations" but that is quite irrelevant. The point is that running what you need to (mostly) flick switches and measure temperatures should not pull huge infrastructure, software requirements, and hardware capabilities. If it does then it does mean massive bloat.
Re: Home Assistant waters my plants
#140If you'd like to find more boards where you can flash your firmware, you can check out: https://openhardware.directory/devices/search/home-assistant...