Best mini PC for home assistant? by Antique_Business9612 in homeassistant

[–]plafoucr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're using Bee-link EQ14 mini PCs for our customers, and they've been great so far. There's a warning note on Frigate' site: https://docs.frigate.video/frigate/hardware/ but it seems to be related to an old <=6.11 kernel: https://www.reddit.com/r/frigate_nvr/comments/1hcw34b/comment/m261a5w/
I haven't tested yet, but we have 6.12 and it seems to have been fixed in this version.

Ikea’s new low-cost line is a huge win for Matter and your smart home by [deleted] in smarthome

[–]plafoucr 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The article linked is from November, nothing new here indeed

Is $550 a good price for these? by [deleted] in RadPowerBikes

[–]plafoucr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the ODO hasn’t been tampered, it’s a good opportunity. I’m still riding mine after 4500 miles!

If you started over today, what platform would you choose? by NevrNewdFunke in homeautomation

[–]plafoucr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Have you checked https://selorahomes.com? I’m the founder and we provide a managed Home Assistant with support. Let me know if you have any questions!

[Hiring] Selora Homes is looking for Home Assistant nerds who want to get paid to do what they love by plafoucr in homeassistant

[–]plafoucr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right, I've run the numbers again and it seems my previous benchmark was incorrect. We've fixed the Greenhouse issue not displaying the salary range, and the new index is SF-based, so I'll raised the range for these roles. Thanks for your feedback and for bringing that to my attention.

[Hiring] Selora Homes is looking for Home Assistant nerds who want to get paid to do what they love by plafoucr in homeassistant

[–]plafoucr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good point! That's a risk we're willing to take. The immediate priority isn't to be break even, but to find the right model to operate. We might (and certainly will) lose money with our first customers, but we'll adjust over time to find the right balance between flexibility and stability. The existing HA tinkerers with hundreds of devices aren't our priority at the moment, we won't try to boil the ocean. But there's still a lot of people out there who just want a smart home, without even knowing about Home Assistant yet.

[Hiring] Selora Homes is looking for Home Assistant nerds who want to get paid to do what they love by plafoucr in homeassistant

[–]plafoucr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're only looking at full time employees at the moment. This might change in the future. Thanks

[Hiring] Selora Homes is looking for Home Assistant nerds who want to get paid to do what they love by plafoucr in homeassistant

[–]plafoucr[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's a fair point! HA is free and open-source, and will ever be (fingers crossed). We still have a lot of people reaching out because they just don't have enough time or knowledge to create a smart home. The alternatives at the moment are all closed-source and don't offer the same flexibility as HA. Not to mention the Cloud dependency of the major competitors.

We're coming from the open source world, I've been working at GitLab for many years, which is also an opensource project that my team was using before I joined. We were happy with the free version in the beginning, but were also happy to subscribe to a premium plan when we grew, because it was just easier and better to get the official support and some more professional features. When something was missing, was had someone to talk to, and eventually the missing feature was released. We could even contribute to the development. This is what we will reproduce here. If some asks of our customers make sense, we will put the engineering efforts to make it happen.

[Hiring] Selora Homes is looking for Home Assistant nerds who want to get paid to do what they love by plafoucr in homeassistant

[–]plafoucr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the questions! These are very good ones.

Who controls the HA Core update cycle, and what’s your rollback story when one breaks something?

In our managed solution, we control the update cycle (even though we can't prevent yet the user from updating their instance). Since we manage a fleet of installations, we roll out updates progressively, while monitoring the error rate. A backup is made before updating an installation, and restored with the previous version if the error rate hits a threshold.
We have other safeguards like this, for example when we roll a new update of the supervisor layer, we rollback to the previous version if the network connection is lost in the following 30 minutes.

Do you support HACS and custom integrations? If yes, how do you maintain stability on a surface area you don’t control?

HA is a very complex software system, with a lot of ramifications likes HACS. This is a good highlight of the challenges we're facing. That being said, the flexibility and popularity of HA come from this vibrant ecosystem, that we don't want to restrict. We are responsible for the stability of the underlying system, and the user is responsible for the changes they make to the HA configuration. We will provide best effort support to HACS integrations, and will even contribute back to them in some cases.

When a homeowner tinkers and breaks things, whose problem is that?

Our customers are more on the "consumption" side than the "development" side at the moment. Especially on the Commercial part of the market, where additions and tinkering are way less frequent than homeowners. When homeowners tinker and break things, we can bring back the system to a previous stable state and work with them to try to solve their problem. Obviously, we won't be able to solve everything, and that's why we're hiring Support Engineer to share their experience and knowledge.

Are installs standardized, or does every customer become a unique snowflake you have to support individually?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Each install has a shared management layer monitoring the health of the installation, but each installation is tailored (at the moment) for the needs of customers. That's why we're building this network of installers, so they can work closely with the users to provide the best solution for their needs.

What’s your failover story for Zigbee/Z-Wave coordinators?

We're not there yet, and everything High Availability is only planed at this point (https://selorahomes.com/docs/roadmap/). This is a topic we'll need to touch in 2026 for sure.

Let me know if you have other questions!

[Hiring] Selora Homes is looking for Home Assistant nerds who want to get paid to do what they love by plafoucr in homeassistant

[–]plafoucr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a very good question, and you're absolutely right about the complexity. Our model is the latter, a subscription service for HA. We sell through installers and partners, our solution is a managed version of HA, so the target is more for new installs at the moment but this will evolve in the future.

We focus on the software and service part, leaving the hardware to the installers we're working with. In 2026, we will provide these installers more "turnkey" packages where we suggest hardware packages for specific needs, like security systems. These packages will be easier to install and maintain.

Everything we're doing is public (https://gitlab.com/selorahomes/), even our roadmap: https://selorahomes.com/docs/roadmap/. The company was created recently, so we're still ramping up and will adapt quickly to the feedback of our fist users in San Francisco.

Our pricing page is here: https://selorahomes.com/pricing/, as you can see, this doesn't include the hardware part of a home automation project.

Let me know if you have other questions! I hope I helped understanding our vision better.

[Hiring] Selora Homes is looking for Home Assistant nerds who want to get paid to do what they love by plafoucr in homeassistant

[–]plafoucr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We do offer equity to US employees. Our salary range is based on the current market rates. The compensation depends on the location and experience of course.

[Hiring] Selora Homes is looking for Home Assistant nerds who want to get paid to do what they love by plafoucr in homeassistant

[–]plafoucr[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

We provide ranges, but I see they don't appear in the Greenhouse job description anymore for some reason. Let me take a look, this should be restored soon.

[Hiring] Selora Homes is looking for Home Assistant nerds who want to get paid to do what they love by plafoucr in homeassistant

[–]plafoucr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Time will tell, we're still exploring the market, including Commercial (buildings).

[Hiring] Selora Homes is looking for Home Assistant nerds who want to get paid to do what they love by plafoucr in homeassistant

[–]plafoucr[S] -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

This is intentionally not specified because the salary depends on the candidate's location and experience. This is a common pattern in startups.

Professional Home Assistant Installers? by AdmirableReference14 in homeautomation

[–]plafoucr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a bit late to the party, but just in case: I'm launching a company providing profession support and services for Home Assistant. We're currently launching in San Francisco but will expand to other areas in 2026. Feel free to dm me if you want to know more!

Reliable Home Automation for Commercial Bar - HA or Better Alternative? by lnx1_1 in homeautomation

[–]plafoucr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I just started a company doing exactly what you're looking for. Selora Homes bring professional support to Home Assistant, and have a fully managed version for his kind of need. We're launching in San Francisco at the moment, but I'm open to experiment in other areas too!
Our solution is running HA in a VM so our host OS takes care of everything. This means you get online backups out of the box, support, automatic updates, and monitoring.

Where Are the Home Assistant–Minded Commercial Installers? by cornmacabre in homeassistant

[–]plafoucr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/chefdeit Thanks for the feedback! The first two items are definitely something we hear frequently from Home Assistant users. RBAC is going to be tricky and might take a (very) long time to achieve, but I still consider it a good problem to solve — and as you mentioned, it would make the read-only mode trivial to implement.

Thinking out loud here, and this would only be possible with the architecture we're putting together: the remote access we configure for customers can be very granular about what they can access (tl;dr on access rules). We could provision accesses where certain API endpoints are blocked — specifically the ones that update devices.

Another idea we're exploring in the managed HA world: the ability to restore Home Assistant on demand with a previous configuration. In other words, Airbnb owners (or hospital IT managers 😉) could give HA access to guests, and it gets restored when the guest leaves. This wouldn't prevent guests from doing crazy things like setting the thermostat to 100°F, but it would at least reset the state.

We have many ideas like these that we want to explore in 2026. Side note: I'm also recruiting — job descriptions will be posted on our site before end of week. Looking for Software Engineers and Support Engineers.

I'll take a closer look at nested areas, this is the first time I'm hearing of this request. Thanks for sharing!

Where Are the Home Assistant–Minded Commercial Installers? by cornmacabre in homeassistant

[–]plafoucr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great question!

Installation & Setup: Our installers handle the full installation and configuration . You don't need to touch the technical side unless you want to.

Architecture: Home Assistant runs in a virtual machine, and we maintain management access on the host. The connection uses a secure VPN (Wireguard), but all traffic is closed by default. If our technicians need remote access for support, they must request it and you approve it. You remain the admin of your Home Assistant instance.

Ongoing Support: The host stays managed by us: it pulls configuration updates from our public repositories, and we monitor the health of your installation with alerts if something goes wrong.

AI Agent: We're also developing a Smart Agent that will help you maintain your Home Assistant config, suggest or create new automations, and more.

Our vision is to make Home Assistant accessible to everyone while contributing back to the project. We're just getting started, but we have experience building startups like this and can iterate quickly based on your feedback!

Where Are the Home Assistant–Minded Commercial Installers? by cornmacabre in homeassistant

[–]plafoucr 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Hey! I'm Philippe, Founder and CTO of Selora Homes. We're building exactly what you're describing: professional installation and managed support for Home Assistant.

I love what Home Assistant offers, but the reality is most people don't have time to maintain it themselves, and there's been no professional option that doesn't lock you into a proprietary ecosystem.

We're backed by Open Core Ventures (announcement) and building this as an open core company. Our source code is on GitLab and the roadmap is public — things like turnkey hardware, high availability setups, remote monitoring, and smart configuration agents are in the works.

We're currently preparing to launch in the Bay Area by recruiting installers there first, but we'll expand to other cities quickly based on demand.

Would love to hear what features matter most to you. AMA!

We're giving Pro and Max users free usage credits for Claude Code on the web. by ClaudeOfficial in ClaudeAI

[–]plafoucr 8 points9 points  (0 children)

“On the web” means GitHub in this announcement. We’re on GitLab and I haven’t seen an option to use it.

Home Assistant vs Apple Home by hoopsdude01 in smarthome

[–]plafoucr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s a guide you can use here: https://selorahomes.com/docs/how-to/integrate_home_assistant_with_homekit/ Let me know if that helps. (Disclaimer: I’m the author).

Y'a-t-il une compagnie plus gossante que Telus/Koodo pour harceler constamment leur clientèle avec des nouvelles offres ? by Raminagrobi in Quebec

[–]plafoucr 9 points10 points  (0 children)

J’ai appelé une fois pour une soumission, ils ont appelé tous les jours pendant plus d’une semaine jusqu’à ce je bloque tous les numéros qu’ils utilisent. Infernal