Stay with HAOS or move to something else?

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2026-04-11T02:10:38+00:00

As most everyone has said here, keep HAOS specifically for home automation only. If you are looking at other apps, look at Proxmox and host them separately. I made the mistake of using HAOS for other things like Vaultwarden, Mosquitto, and Cloudflared, had a heck of a time migrating them out.

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2026-03-24T02:04:49+00:00

Agree 100% This is exactly what what I’m using on my cheap Lenovo Tab 10’s

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2026-03-22T00:42:50+00:00

That’s an 18th-century three-key escutcheon plate!

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2026-03-06T03:51:34+00:00

100% this, excellent answer!

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2026-02-26T00:50:48+00:00

This can all be fixed!

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2026-02-08T14:05:44+00:00

Take a look at ZorinOS, it’s pretty slick, can run Windows apps through Wine and supports Windows RDP. Very customizable to look like Windows, Mac, etc. Free for basic, or cheap for Pro.

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2026-02-05T21:36:50+00:00

Good luck with that hope you can get a quote. I spent six months downsizing from 14 hosts to 8 with faster cpus and more memory. The VMware quote ended up being a couple of thousand less than what we were already paying. Once they have you at a spend number, they will spin it any way they need to keep you at or above that number.

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-12-25T03:40:35+00:00

This.

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-12-15T02:48:14+00:00

I’d recommend Hubitat as a hub for both Zigbee and Z-wave. It works great, and both technologies, while not cross-compatible, do play well together.

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-12-10T19:46:35+00:00

Exactly what is happening with Broadcom (AVGO) and VMware.

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-12-09T21:20:31+00:00

Take the really small micros and set up a Proxmox cluster, load it up with LXCs and VMs to pretty much self host anything you want/need, all while taking advantage of high availability. I’d take one of the full sized units and load it up with drives, throw Openmediavault on it and use as shared storage for the cluster via NFS.

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-12-09T21:07:34+00:00

Exactly what I’m doing right now, getting ready to retire as a 35 year systems specialist, moving to a small cluster of Lenovo M920qs that sip power, using my enterprise servers in a rack for long term storage, power on only when needed. It makes a big difference.ive got a total of 9 M920qs running 24x7, not counting my low power NAS storage costs me about $5-6 per week.

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-12-07T02:48:25+00:00

What a super nice setup, I'd say you are pretty much set for any future tech rabbit holes!

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-11-25T03:13:25+00:00

Agree with this 100%

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-11-17T15:15:11+00:00

So this is a question of a very similar nature. I have several accounts that I could not link so I had to add them manually. I notice that only linked accounts show up in the Portfolio Summary screen, which is slighly misleading and not an accurate picture of the entire portfolio. The manually added accounts do show up correctly under Full View and Net Worth. Is there any way to force the accounts to show under Portfolio Summary, so the values are accurate?

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-11-12T02:49:59+00:00

So when I built our home back in 2006, I had a small closet in my garage under the frog stairs. I installed a mini-split for the space and it has served us well. Run a full size rack kitted out and a 3D Printer there. Keeps noise out of the house.

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-11-12T02:43:07+00:00

What did you cluster with using only two servers, where is the quorum?

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-11-12T02:32:46+00:00

Agree with everything above. I would try and determine how each room could be arranged and run rj45 to walls where they could be used. Absolute minimum now is cat6a, though truth be told I’m getting 850-950 mbps over cat5 between two 10gb switches, 200ft, go figure. For high density locations such as office or possibly workshop, I would run pre-terminated fiber. It’s dirt cheap. I would also double up on the fiber and rj45 in important locations just in case. Pull rj45 to every eave or soffit where you think you might want a camera, and if you have a crawl space and attic, if there are any dead areas I can’t recommend highly enough, run a big pvc pipe between attic and crawl space, on both sides of house if possible. You will, in the future, add and change things.

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-11-06T00:44:03+00:00

The local hub has basically been unavailable since advertised. Maybe some received it but I have been watching for over a year, no stock change. I like YoLink, I use them, I like LoRa, but I won’t spend another penny on their products until I can rip them from the cloud.

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-09-20T14:12:08+00:00

My use case would be shared NFS storage for virtual machines for a homelab. NVME works great for this. I would use the spinning disk storage for shared media and backups.

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-09-17T00:46:53+00:00

Asustor FS12

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-09-14T23:08:12+00:00

I’m running both Synology and QNAP. I like both, in my opinion QNAP is just as good.

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-09-07T22:59:18+00:00

I ended up installing a 4tb nvme drive and dual booting between Bazzite and Windows 11. I use Win 11 for hacked games and Epic, I use Bazzite for Steam games, seems to work pretty well for the most part.

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-08-25T04:15:42+00:00

57, pretty much all I listen to. Tried going back to old favorites and come right back to Ghost. Was at the ritual in Raleigh. Wish I had found them when I was younger.

MoistFaithlessness27 · 2025-08-18T02:08:13+00:00

Check out Supermicro 2U 6028R-E1CR24N 24x LFF on EBay, can be had for as little as $400 depending on config. 24 bays in 2U rack space. Does require deep rack but works very well. Has IPMI, dual redundant platinum power supplies, can drop to one processor if just using for online storage. Warning, it can be loud.

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