I also have Home Assistant running on an n150 NUC with 16GB of ram, a 4TB SSD only to save all my 24/7 recording CCTV on frigate with a Coral TPU for the AI recognition.
Everything runs over matter (wifi).
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zerodawn@leaf.dance 1 month ago
When you come down from your high and you’re looking for your next hit check out home assistant.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
trilobite@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
You need to share your setup then … :-) I wanted to set this up next.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
This is what my central hardware looks like.
I will take some time this afternoon and edit this same post with my current setup in terms of host systems, network configuration and how they work with each other.
It would be great if some of us did this too. Could be the starting point for some newcomers, as well as a great source for the ones that already have working setups ro find other options that could potentially make things better as well.
Thanks for suggesting this, I’m in.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Home Assistant regularly reminds me of Arthur C. Clark’s adage: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I got that on my list.
I need to make a post here soon as well about my setup, I guess
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago I’ve read about this. It’s literally what I imagined the future would be. Will try it ASAP.
zerodawn@leaf.dance 1 month ago
It is as vast and customizable as it gets. The sky, and your imagination, is the limit. I’ve been at it for years and i’m still tinkering with automations and services. It’s biggest strength, in my eyes, is being able to run everything local and off line. My advice is to start with zigbee so as to not congest your Wi-Fi traffic and add in zwave where the budget allows and range is needed.
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Can you run an automatic chicken door with that? Last time I looked, DIY arduino was the way, but a zwave mechanism with homeassistant automation sounds excellent.
zerodawn@leaf.dance 1 month ago
When i say that imagination is the limit i mean it. I ordered some car seat pressure sensors and soldered them to either end of a door contact sensor and put them under our couch cushions. Now i have a battery powered, zigbee based, way to override the motion based automation if we’re on the couch. The lights stay on if we’re too still or they stay off if we’re napping and a pet walks in.
I watched a video where a guy used meshtastic to reach the back of his property and those radios can run on solar.
pleksi@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Matter over thread works well too and is propably the most future proof option. The new ikea stuff is really cheap and mostly thread only. :) smlight slzb ultima3 hub will do both zigbee and thread simultaniously.
trilobite@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I hadn’t realised that matter was making such progress. I was about to start installing KNEX stuff at my home, which I would later integrate with Zigbee or the other stuff.
zerodawn@leaf.dance 1 month ago
I don’t doubt thread is getting better and could be the more future proof of them all but i bought some zigbee motion sensors for less than $10 and haven’t changed the battery in them in nearly two years. When thread devices are that cheap and can run on battery that long i’ll gladly recommend them too. For now, for beginners, i like to recommend zigbee for it’s low cost in both money and power usage.
trilobite@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I’ve been using OpenHab2 for several years now but it only collects data from a few esp sensors I built during covid. I need to get it updated and use it more seriously