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hamsda@feddit.org 2 days ago Interesting. I do not know a lot about Home Assistant devices, but I thought they would just be communicating via standard WIFI + data encryption. I definitely didn’t suspect there to be a whole new standard of wireless communication to that.
I understand the thing about downtime, running pihole myself. My setup is rather simple and centralized on purpose and I don’t really mind the few minutes of “filtered DNS” downtime while pihole and pve are rebooting. As my UniFi Dream Router 7 is the firewall / gateway / DHCP server anyway, I just use pihole as primary DNS and 1.1.1.1 as secondary DNS. It’s not filtering “bad domains” via DNS, sure, but I got adblock origin and other browser extensions dealing with whatever comes along anyway.
But, yeah, for redundancy and always-online-production-setups it’s actually great having a secondary pve as a temporary stop-gap. Plus, it’s a nice and kinda fancy setup, of course. Always appreciated in selfhosted :)
There’s multiple. Some devices are on wifi, some on z-wave and as zigbee is getting quite a lot of support from vendors I’ll likely add that to the mix soon-ish. Also I could use bluetooth for some automations, but at least for now I don’t really see any advantages over that.
As for pihole, it’s main DNS server for devices in my network and rest of the family uses the net quite a lot too (IPTV and streaming services included) so any longer downtime would cause at least annoyance for them so it’s nice to have an option to keep things running and take my time to maintain hardware or whatever. I of course could change DHCP server to offer something else too, but it’s simpler and faster to just migrate a VM to another host.