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  • besmtt@lemmy.worldtohomeassistant@lemmy.worldFrom scratch?
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    18 days ago

    I think both of these ways are good and valid in their own way, they both have upsides and downsides. For me, having things separated is working well. I especially like being able to reboot HAOS more frequently and as soon as it comes back up all my Z-wave devices are ready to go. Back when I ran Z-wave inside of HAOS it took a lot longer for the Z-wave network to calm down and be ready after a reboot.





  • besmtt@lemmy.worldtohomeassistant@lemmy.worldFrom scratch?
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    19 days ago

    Get something small, maybe something like a Lenovo ThinkCentre mini. Put Proxmox on it and install HAOS as a VM. Then when you want to add software, add them as LXC containers on the Proxmox host. Like Z-wave, MQTT, ESPHome, zigbee, etc. I really like having things in separate containers so that way I can work on things separately. If I need to restart the HAOS VM, it’s a lot faster because my entire Z-wave network doesn’t have to restart.

    Avoid adding things that require cloud access. I have to have a damned good use case before I add anything that requires Internet access.

    Oh and I like this place: https://cloudfree.shop/