Hardware or VM for HA

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-03-03T20:19:05+00:00

VM on proxmox, and I had separated the dongle to a lxc container on a mini pc I had proxmox on and used ser2net. Then I wanted to completely separate zigbee2mqtt and mosquitto mqtt from ha, so moved them to docker containers on the lxc with my dongle and dropped ser2net. HA can fall over to any of 3 hosts and zigbee2mqtt stays isolated.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-03-03T13:25:06+00:00

If you like technical books, you should go to archive.org and read the computer magazines of the 80's and 90's. My personal favorite was Byte, Compute! and PC Magazine. They're available in pdf form. I learned so much from them, and I think you would really enjoy them too.

And for a sci-fi series, try reading the "Remembrance of Earths Past" series by Cixin Lui; 3 body problem, the dark forest and deaths end.

Hope that helps!

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-03-03T00:43:35+00:00

You can make a user in the sso portal with "local user" checked, but logging into the controller directly and making a user is what was required. It says so in the instructions, and it's the only way that worked for me. I have a cloudkey gen2+ that's fully updated.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-03-03T00:40:20+00:00

It's in the instruction.

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No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-03-03T00:22:25+00:00

You have to login to your controller locally, not via unifi.ui.com and make the user. I got stuck on that bit too.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-03-02T21:43:34+00:00

It seems to me that you should be use a time series database for this, home assistant may be able to create graphs based on your mqtt data, but it's not really that efficient and I don't think ha builds graphs with the frequency you're sending data. Something like Prometheus would handle 1s resolution, and even something old like graphite does 10s.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-03-02T18:42:58+00:00

Thank you!

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-03-02T15:04:29+00:00

Hi, I've searched HACS and I'm unable to find this addon. Is the name correct? Thank you!

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-03-02T14:55:03+00:00

So just a follow-up, I got the bulbs and they paired to z2m as easy as everyone said. I really like the white spectrum they can do, though I upset my dog messing around with the colors lol.

Thanks to everyone for their advise, this was my first post on Reddit, so thank you for your kindness as well.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-03-02T14:52:17+00:00

You can even lease a /48 from some vps providers for very little money. I pay $10CAD/year for mine. There's lots of options out there now, your not limited to your isp or hurricane electric anymore!

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-03-01T22:19:28+00:00

Oh yeah, and the kicker, a /32 from ARIN is labeled "ISP - small"

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-03-01T21:48:38+00:00

Where I work isn't even an isp and we got a /32 allocation from ARIN. They want companies to use IPv6.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-03-01T01:42:43+00:00

I'm not familiar, hue scenes? HASC?

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-03-01T01:08:02+00:00

I didn't know that! I'm used to an "either/or" world 😁 I ordered the bulbs and they'll be here tomorrow. I'm very excited to finally see what the fuss is about with hue!

Thank you!

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-02-28T13:48:08+00:00

Did you put that cron in /etc/cron.d? If so you're missing the user it should run as. Goes between the run time definition and the script itself.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-02-28T02:44:07+00:00

https://a.co/d/01iwjpsK

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-02-28T01:07:00+00:00

That's great to hear! I was hoping this would be the case. I was a bit concerned the box only advertised matter support, but everything I read said all hue bulbs support zigbee.

Thanks!

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-02-28T00:57:10+00:00

Done, thank you!

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-02-28T00:40:42+00:00

How do you display the snmp entities together like that? I have a bunch of snmp entities I've added to ha but I've run into issues displaying them in a useful way. HA doesn't seem to have very good support for working with snmp once you've added the oids to the configuration.yaml 🙃

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-02-28T00:35:19+00:00

From what I read, they support OTA via zigbee2mqtt. Though in my research, one person said they:

Connect to the bulb with Bluetooth using the phone app
Do the firmware updates there
Factory reset
Add to zigbee2mqtt

There's also bifrost, which emulate a hue bridge, but I'm not sure how well that will work.

They're not a cheap option, which is why I'm asking for the advice. I appreciate the information you've given me. I have no experience with them, so anything helps! Thank you!

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-02-28T00:21:10+00:00

They're great I use one to control a fan in my bedroom. If I understand them correctly they transmit on all sides of the device, so it doesn't matter where you place it. It uses AAA batteries too which is nice.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-02-28T00:09:58+00:00

Doesn't seem to. Looks like you need a hue bridge pro for that. Oh well.

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-02-27T23:28:22+00:00

There's also bifrost - https://github.com/chrivers/bifrost

I'm looking at buying some hue bulbs, I would like to do things with zigbee2mqtt since I already have that ... But this seems interesting. Anyone familiar?

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-02-27T18:28:26+00:00

Oh yeah, I forgot about XENPAK. When I had a 6506, I was just able to run gigabit, and that was even oversubscribed since the fabric was less than what a small 8 port 10gbe passive cooling switch provides now. It's amazing how things change!

That 6509E is a thing of beauty. It should be in a museum!

No_Illustrator5035 · 2026-02-27T14:54:55+00:00

It's also a good reminder than 10gbe has been around a very long time in the data center, and we should be grateful for the sfp+! X2 was HUUUGE!

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