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Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant

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epcoa wrote: post #336
greggsy wrote: post #274

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Trust me it's not worth the effort to get USB passthrough for HAOS on Docker.

What do you mean by “HAOS on docker”. HAOS is a standalone complete Linux system with its own fully managed kernel, not meant to be containerized. It uses docker internally itself though and “pass through” works transparently. If you’re talking about running home assistant in a docker container, sure you’re more on your own, but since official home assistant in HAOS must run in docker, none of this is terribly diffic…

HA can be deployed as a container. Yes it uses containers.

I’m impressed with your knowledge of the Linux ecosystem. Regardless, passing usb devices to the containerised version is still more effort than it’s worth for the average user.

Re: Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant

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mrj wrote: post #141
WaitWaitWha wrote: post #89

If you are thinking of deploying Home Assistant (HA), let me give you a few tips that I should have known when started. HA environment is vast. There are myriads of options, features, and functions. There are some gotchas that can be costly down the road. All of the following are "for now, as you start out": Do not gyrate over which version of HA to run. Run the HAOS loaded on RasPi, or a dedicated machine. You can m…

What I wish I had known: HA is just a python program, it's pretty easy to run it manually. After my Pi's sdcard died, I wanted to use an old laptop (more reliable with a built-in backup battery) so I followed the deployment recommendations and used the VM image. After that, for the first time I started having problems with HA not running - because VirtualBox would run only about a month before crashing. And I didn't…

Have HA running without any issue on a Linux KVM VM.

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mrandish wrote: post #132
dietr1ch wrote: post #61

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I'm not buying any device that's not 3, everything else turns into a brick as soon as there's some larger change. I have some older Google Speakers, and while they seemed to be 2, after being powered off for long enough they can't be set up again, not even with internet access since their firmware was also outdated and the app isn't able to set them up again.

> I'm not buying any device that's not 3 Same here. My gold standard for this is hardware that comes with the open source Tasmota firmware (or which can be flashed to Tasmota). All 75 light switches in our new house run Tasmota firmware and to me it's the perfect combination of simple, flexible and yet deeply powerful. Devices can be controlled via MQTT, web requests, webUI console or serial and not only does it avoi…

Could you please share the Amazon link or light switch name? Thanks
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