Home Assistant

micks_address

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122833626#Comment_122833626

agree re the backups.. ive backups running to google drive every night.. ive messed up my install few times and its just so easy to restore from last nights backup… also recommend don't run on old pi hardware.. i had a pi3 and it works but it struggled.. move to a dell micro form pc last year and its been pretty much flawless.. ssd and a backup UPS is also very helpful.. it used to happen me on the pi every time had a power cut the install became corrupt.. on the dell ive a small aps ups which keeps it going during a powercut

paulbok

I've the same opinion on the Pi. It's fine if you want to have a look at HA, but not good or stable enough for regular use. Have mine on an old mini PC, which is more than capable for running it. Am planning to move it to a different PC with all my other services, plex, frigate etc. hopefully will turn that mini PC into a proxmox backup server

donspeekinglesh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122833463#Comment_122833463

I have 5 of these in the house. They work very well, though the chain does need to be long enough, as I've always found issues if the break point rolls over the rotating wheel.

I charge them all about every 6 weeks - just go around with a battery park and plug them in for the 40 min or so it takes to charge.

Jonathan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122833463#Comment_122833463

Yep, I have the Aqara Roller Shade Driver E1. Experience has been very positive and similar to @donspeekinglesh describes.

ECO_Mental

Energy monitoring and deep diving into my energy consumption is what I access HA mostly for, but I have a load of simple automations running in the background that I never think about.

A few motion sensors to turn on lights in the garage, utility room etc then go off after a few mins

I have all my outside lights now on shelly relays so when I (or the missus) comes home and the sun is below the horizon it will switchs them all on then go off after 10mins as I drive up to the house. I live in the county side so it can be dark!

A few Aquara buttons (these are great) that switch on and off a few atmosphere lights and table lamps around the house. At christmas these buttons will turn on and off ALL my christmas lights

An Aquara button to switch on (and off) all my equipment in my cinema room, Xbox, home cinema amp and TV. No need for three controllers.

I then have a few alerts that will send messages to my phone if there is a water leak in one or two areas, if my borehole well is on for too long (eg someone left an outside tap on) and an alert if my car is charging outside of EV charging time.

come Feb/March next year I will set up my seed propagator where I have an automation to turn on and off a heating mat and then turn on and off grow lamps..worked brilliantly

Its amazing the things you can do..

10-10-20

Did many here use tteck's scripts for Proxmox? I spotted this sad news yesterday.

https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/discussions/4009?sort=new

I always found them helpful, especially for running up Technitium and a new HA instance, etc. The community have taken on the scripts.

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/

paulbok

I recently set up an Arrr stack on Proxmox using his scripts. Still tweaking the setups, but they were so handy for installation.

Sad news indeed.

championc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122833696#Comment_122833696

With other services, have you looked at installing all on Docker instead ?

paulbok

I've Sonarr,Radar,Lidarr, Qbittorrent set up for sailing the high seas. Moved Plex over as well from an old Optiplex pc that died on me.

Have Frigate to setup correctly now, just received an adapter for a Coral tpu chip to add that.

Hoping to migrate Home Assistant next week when I've a bit more time.

Then I want to set up a gaming server, or at least a Minecraft server for the kids (and big kid).

Maybe some self hosted cloud storage.

After that I think I'll be done but the PC I'm running on has the scope for adding more services if I need it.

I've never got my head around docker, sticking to the LXC containers from those scripts is enough to manage. I still have to figure out the correct way to manage storage on Proxmox, Linux is a strange beast after using Windows all my life.

championc

I got into Docker about 6 months ago. Absolutely love it. I just love the way you can spin up containers for services, and each not reliant on anything else, and each can be rebooted, upgraded or whatever without worrying about anything else.

Very easy too if two services work on the same web port, to port forward to another.

There is even a container called watchtower which updates all other containers automatically.

I'm struggling a bit with the setup of Frigate mind you.