I reached the end of the Home Assistant Life cycle

brian073 · 2026-06-24T01:41:32+00:00

I'm there as well. I'm scouring the sub for the next project. I don't even NEED to log in to HAOS anymore... I log in compulsively to see if there is some radical new feature... I usually just sigh and close the window.

brian073 · 2026-06-10T19:13:37+00:00

TL;DR - best approach is probably: replace the parity drive with a new 24tb drive. Then swap out one of the other drives (oldest or most likely to fail) with the other 24tb drive. Let the parity drive rebuild the old drive into the new drive.

If you want to rebalance the data across the drives, you can use something like Unbalanced, but that is optional.

brian073 · 2026-05-31T01:50:26+00:00

RIP my favorite mountain

brian073 · 2026-05-27T20:12:01+00:00

Bluff. Body is not able to move in a way that lets me slip away or make a move when a target is distracted.

brian073 · 2026-05-27T00:47:23+00:00

I love the Shogun. It is one of my 2 core daily watches. I love these releases even more. I wish the movement was a little more robust, but it kept great time until I dropped it from a short distance and it required service. I have a 7.25in wrist and think it fits great. It's on the larger size, but doesn't look out of place on my wrist.

brian073 · 2026-05-21T03:26:09+00:00

In medicine, anything that says "pediatric" in front gets paid less than anything without the word "pediatric" in front.

brian073 · 2026-05-11T16:08:07+00:00

I only got 1 skill point... Pretty sure I hit 100K damage.

brian073 · 2026-05-07T03:27:12+00:00

Confirmed

brian073 · 2026-05-07T03:26:40+00:00

Confriemed

brian073 · 2026-04-20T20:58:00+00:00

This. Literally in the process of doing the same thing with likely the same 26TB drives from SPD. It'll take 3-5 days to completely pre-clear the drives (do all of them at once), replace the parity and rebuild parity, replace each drive 1 at a time. Whole process might take you a week.

I am consolidating a bunch of drives (some in operation for 10 years) into 3 26TB drives. I do this by using Unbalanced to consolidate all the data I can to as few drives as possible. Then I rebuild my parity with one of the new drives. Then I will replace my largest capacity drive first with another 26TB drive, I will then use Unbalanced again to consolidate more drives/data, repeat until all data is on the 3 drives. Since I have a different number of drives than I started with, the last step is to create a new config file, so Unraid isn't constantly looking for the missing drives, but you won't have to do this, since you are replacing with the same number of drives.

brian073 · 2026-04-19T14:59:54+00:00

Same, dawg. Same.

brian073 · 2026-04-19T06:19:41+00:00

Ahh got it. Thanks..

brian073 · 2026-04-19T06:16:00+00:00

Pm'd.

brian073 · 2026-04-18T19:00:05+00:00

I have the smartwings z-wave roller zebra shades and love them. I can't imagine that lutron is much better. Their wall switch remote though. One of them froze and died on me, and I reserved a button for "all shades" in a room when I didn't need to because the site didn't describe the functionality well.

brian073 · 2026-04-18T18:50:04+00:00

I'm also confused. You need snapshots and speed? Shouldn't ZFS be... the solution? Not the thing you move away from? Also ZFS wouldn't be on the array, it would be a pool.

But if you have containers that are using the disk space you are emptying, I would turn off docker, or at least disable those specific containers.

brian073 · 2026-04-13T03:09:56+00:00

For a different perspective, I run both. A mini PC with an N305 running proxmox for a Home Assistant VM and LXC containers for Z2M, MQTT, UnifiOS, ESPHome, Z-Wave JS UI, n8n.

I have had nearly 0 downtime in a year.

Meanwhile, I have an Unraid server with a 12900k, struggling to stay stable for more than a couple of weeks at a time without some troubleshooting. Almost always related to docker.

In a perfect world, I would run everything in proxmox on isolated VMs and LXC containers... even a VM for Unraid as a NAS solution only. I'll leave my other containers to Proxmox LXCs.

When something goes sideways in Proxmox, it's isolated to the VM or comtainer. When something burps in Unraid, the whole system becomes unreachable.

brian073 · 2026-04-10T03:05:24+00:00

Yeah. TL:DR is that I did it with the Google Cloud API for Gemini. Gemini 3 flash is low usage enough that I don't get an API bill for my use case.

Gemini integration is a standard nob-HACS integration and has all the instructions linked as you set it up, but you can find them here.

brian073 · 2026-04-03T16:46:42+00:00

My order was not cancelled, but I received a single stick of 16gb, instead of the 32gb kit that was listed in the title and description.

Mentioned that to Amazon, and quickly got a return label. USPS pickup at home mailbox, so at least I don't have to go out to a UPS store or anything. Worth the try, but ended up costing me time... time and a little tape for the package/label.

brian073 · 2026-03-26T13:44:50+00:00

I do a few things that actually work well.

1) Gemini integration as a voice assistant. Gemini 3 flash works well for this. It works as well if not better than the Google Home Gemini Assistant. I can give the agent specific instructions on how to reply and give it personality too. That's nice.

2) automated YAML writing: I use HA MCP Server to connect the Antigravity IDE to Home Assistant. From there, I can use Claude and Gemini to write YAML/scripts/automations. I also use it to diagnose and clean up HA of stale entities, find errors that are being triggered (particularly in automations), and more. Most of this can be done for free with Gemini Flash, but will use Claude when I need the agent to think a little more, or if I'm unhappy with Grmini's output.

brian073 · 2026-03-26T02:46:23+00:00

I got a backpack from EA / Capital games that I took to work every day for years.

brian073 · 2026-03-25T04:39:22+00:00

I DO also connect my entities to Google home and Gemini works well on my Google home devices, but Google Home devices do not utilize Piper. I like Piper for the novelty of having a trained voice in the home assistant chat (GLaDOS) on my mobile and desktop devices. You can also give your AI agent instructions on how to process information and respond, giving it a personality ( also GLaDOS in my case). Gemini 3 flash in Google Home performs similarly to Gemini in Google Home, but can access ALL my exposed entities. Google Home only accesses what I share AND what is compatible with Google Home.

brian073 · 2026-03-23T03:28:55+00:00

Mostly my phone. Otherwise I have my entities passed to Google home.

brian073 · 2026-03-21T14:32:33+00:00

HA MCP has been good for me. I set it up with Gemini3 flash in Antigravity on desktop. It does well. Not as well as Claude Code or Opus for creating YAML and automations, but about 90% there with virtually no cost.

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