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Is Home Assistant the recommended default for smart homes? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm planning to build several WiFi connected devices for home automation: an AC remote control and air quality sensors. These devices would send data and be controlled through a local server. I'm considering two approaches: running custom software on a server PC (hardware to be determined) or integrating with Home Assistant's protocols and purchasing their hardware. Would using Home Assistant be excessive for this use case?

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[–] 16 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Just be careful with SD cards if you're using SBCs. Home Assistant does a lot of writing and if your SD card can't handle repeated writes you may suddenly lose everything. Keep backups to another device and have a replacement SD card ready if extended downtime is going to be a problem for you.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Always run mine in a VM along with everything else, no need for special hardware.

    Get yourself a PoE Zigbee and/or Z-wave receiver and you are good to go, can even live migrate HA if you are fancy

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