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We just use home Assistant. It works great.

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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.

I see so many here with the argument of 'I already have a life time pass, so this increase doesn’t affect me". And in all honesty, that’s a mostly logical take on this if you already have it.

However, the signs are clear. This is a first step. I don’t believe (and I’m very aware I could be wrong) for a second that the executives are actually expecting people to grab a pass for 750 dollars, but they expect a minimum amount of people to go ahead and do it anyway. Once they see this conversation is dying down, and that no money is coming in on that end, they will switch to another method of getting money (the investors need their money, right?).

From there, the sky’s the limit. Charge extra if your instance has more than 3 users, or charge the users that are not you. Cap your quality at 720p unless you fork over 2 dollars per month. Pay for this new AI feature that is not included in your pass. Pay to disable this AI feature that was forced into your pass.

For pass holders there is no problem with this increase, it’s what invariably happens when companies start moving towards the money grab path.

We’ll just watch from the sidelines and will be here to help you migrate once (not if) these things happen.

So, in my case at least, having services spread across LXC containers and VMs, instead of various dockers stacks directly under on host, allows me to provide each service with its own internal IP address as opposed to having to worry about setting up 2 services with the same port because I can’t remember I was already using that port. It’s just cleaner that way.

Additionally, I get to create containers with the specific needs for each service to run comfortably.

It also allows for easier deployment and testing without much danger of ruining the host in something like CasaOS for example. If I have to make some adjustments to the host machine to make a docker stack run better, have more accesses, etc., I can have at it without fear that those changes could affect other docker stacks in the same host, because all hosts are contained.

Then there’s the ease of management and deploying fully functional services with one line in the CLI of the host.

After running UnRaid, OMV, CasaOS and a few others, Proxmox has been the one system that is just so intuitive that I don’t really have to think about it much. For the most part, deployments of pretty much anything just work.

It is. Do you know how I know? It pisses off my wife to no end the ridiculous amount of time I spend testing services to self-host 🤣

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).

I recently ran out of space on a 512GB NVMe I had as local-LVM in my proxmox (it is crazy how I currently run 40+ services on that thing). So I ended up adding a new 2TB NVMe, cloned the 512 to it, expanded the partition, and now everything runs as usual.

Proxmox is awesome. And I’m 51.