Hi. I’m currently rebuilding my setup from scratch, moving away from my old Pi. What’s best practice these days? How would you do it? What cards are the best for the dashboard? How would you do presence detection (getting home), mqtt via ha, or stand alone?

Looking for good ideas, and possibly things to avoid.

TIA.

  • CAVOK@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Is it better to keep MQTT, Zigbee etc in containers rather than in HAOS itself? Am I not just creating an upgrade/dependency mess for myself?

    • besmtt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      I think both of these ways are good and valid in their own way, they both have upsides and downsides. For me, having things separated is working well. I especially like being able to reboot HAOS more frequently and as soon as it comes back up all my Z-wave devices are ready to go. Back when I ran Z-wave inside of HAOS it took a lot longer for the Z-wave network to calm down and be ready after a reboot.