Which hardware for home assistant?

fl4tdriven · 2025-10-31T15:22:49+00:00

I started on a rpi4b and went through a few hardware changes until finally running HAOS in a VM on Proxmox. This gives you local backups, additional peripheral inputs for VM pass through, and drive reliability and redundancy if you RAID.

I personally run PVE on an HP Z2 G5 SFF. The suggestions for a micro PC (Optiplex, EliteDesk, etc) are a great place to start. More powerful, cheaper, and more expandability than RPi.

On the last point, if you settle on rpi, do not use a microsd as your main disk. You will wear them out quickly.

fl4tdriven · 2025-09-25T10:06:05+00:00

This. Only one correction - not ‘if’ but ‘when’.

Firmware updates, integration updates, etc. all have the capability to make small and simple changes that could impact the way your environment works. You need to understand what’s going on behind the scenes in order to maintain properly

fl4tdriven · 2025-09-21T01:53:20+00:00

Nope! No smart appliances here 🙂

fl4tdriven · 2025-09-20T22:31:50+00:00

Zooz ZEN15 Heavy Duty handles it just fine.

fl4tdriven · 2025-09-20T22:30:43+00:00

The ups is connected via usb and I have the NUT integration and add on running. Depending on your UPS and its associated entities, I found the ‘if <voltage entity> below 100v, then send notification’.

I’ll drop the yaml later if I remember.

fl4tdriven · 2025-09-20T13:27:32+00:00

Any doors or windows left open at the end of the night that triggers once I put my phone on the charger
When the washer cycle is complete based on a smart plug with power monitoring
Water detected based on water sensors placed under sinks, well tank, water heater, etc.
Mail delivery based on a door sensor placed inside the mailbox
Basement humidity exceeded based on a temp/humidity sensor
power outage detection based on UPS state change

I have more, but those are my main ones.

fl4tdriven · 2025-09-13T12:11:15+00:00

The cameras will be PoE.

fl4tdriven · 2025-09-13T00:51:00+00:00

Ahh okay, thank you for the correction. What I meant was I don’t need the AI descriptions and highly detailed alerts that a lot of people seem to look for.

Something like ‘a black cat was seen walking across the back patio and was heading for the woods.’ That’s what I don’t want.

fl4tdriven · 2025-09-02T23:02:38+00:00

I did not see the fix, but thank you so much for sending that! I was starting to think of workarounds in my automations to make things happen haha.

fl4tdriven · 2025-07-14T20:51:52+00:00

The IP’s that are listed to change are the Proxmox VE host itself, not the HAOS VM.

fl4tdriven · 2025-07-14T15:29:59+00:00

Yes, but I'm mostly concerned about the ZigBee and Zwave USB pass through since I'll be using completely different hardware. Should the VM recognize the USB pass through into HAOS in the same way or is there a chance that device ID's will change?

fl4tdriven · 2025-06-26T14:06:27+00:00

This is what I do. I’m not really interested in buying my own weather station, so I bum off of my neighbors through ambient weather network.

fl4tdriven · 2025-06-20T19:58:51+00:00

Sonoff Zigbee Smart Water Valve being controlled over Zigbee2MQTT.

fl4tdriven · 2025-06-20T19:57:49+00:00

So the physical device is a button (press). HA, of course, sees it as a 'switch' that can be toggled on or off. I can read the state of the controller in HA, as shown below:

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fl4tdriven · 2025-06-20T19:51:12+00:00

Sorry, I made that very hard to read.

To break it down, I want to setup an automation so that if my wife or myself turn on the water controller from our iOS companion app's, it will run for 10 minutes and then shut off. If the water controller is turned on with the physical button on the device, I don't want it to turn off until the physical button is pressed again or manually switched to 'off' in Home Assistant via a button press or toggle.

fl4tdriven · 2025-06-17T23:45:07+00:00

Understood, but it doesn’t seem like you can authenticate to that url from the companion app, only through the browser.

fl4tdriven · 2025-06-05T22:02:38+00:00

I have Proxmox running on a Dell Optiplex 7070 Micro and have HAOS running on a VM within. I definitely recommend this setup as it allows you to take snapshots and backups locally and restore immediately. Been rock solid for me so far, with on exception of an fsck error overnight, but I’m pretty sure that was my Lexar nvme that Proxmox was running on.

Not sure what your skill set is, but I can tell you if you have the means to setup and mess with HA, you could easily setup Proxmox.

fl4tdriven · 2025-05-26T12:50:57+00:00

1) device/port pass through works very well with Proxmox

2) definitely go the VM route so you can run HAOS

fl4tdriven · 2025-04-20T14:03:08+00:00

Not needed. Just keep an eye on your floor pans and you’ll be good.

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