One thing you will probably have to deal with though: if you have USB devices assigned by their address, you will just need to go in and set them to whatever the new address is on the new host. Should be pretty simple.

You can just create a backup and restore it on the new host. Pretty simple. It’ll basically be like you just kept running your old host.

Good

Have you updated firmware for the card and your BIOS lately?

Edit: also, who makes the card?

The Reolink cameras have a straight IP output source, so you should need any accounts or anything like that (verify with the specific model type of course). You then point Frigate to the camera as an input source feed.

The HA Add-On then just uses Frigate as a media source. It creates a few entities you can use for automations which can be seen here.

Can you clarify the WHAT here? What is in /docker, your volume mounts, or your layers and internals?

Also, how are you running it? Local process, or in a container itself?

Haven’t been hearing much about Cosmic after the first releases. Anyone using it?

I don’t use Ubiquity because of the hub requirement, but the sensors that detect leaks are meant to be placed close to the floor. They detect a completed circuit on one end of the device to the other, indicating water is present.

Gross

Generally, and for a number of different reasons, it’s best to disassociate a device that is meant to be permanent and re-pair with HA. There’s a whole lot of automation in the background that goes into pairing a device, or setting up schedules, automations, scenes, scripts …etc. Deleting forces a find/clear on that entity, and re-pairing creates clean new entries.

Any tiny mini PC or RPi will work for the most part unless you plan on hosting media or doing LLM integration. Just make sure it has all the comms and ports you want before ordering one. Minisforum Refurb store has great prices on small devices that beat the price of an RPi kit in most cases and come with a warranty as if new.

I used to run everything on Zigbee because ZWave had one too many vulnerability issues at the time. I think both are being overtaken by Matter devices, so I’ve been adopting those more and more. Set up a dedicated WiFi network for those that doesn’t have direct route to the internet, and you’re all set.

As for sensors, just stick to known brands that don’t require a cloud account or gateway. Moe’s, Aqara, and Sonoff are all fairly well known to “just work” in this regard.

It’s an environment variable…

Does this warrant and entire novel about it if you’re working within external source builds? No.

In fact, I think you’d be better off writing a deep dive into what/how environment variables work at build time, and also invoking commands on the CLI.

Well they killed off HA Core, so there’s that.

Make sure you keep regular backups, and move some off device. That’s about it.

Nice! I’ve got a bunch of ESP devices just sitting around to try it on.

Try disabling hardware acceleration on whatever browser she’s using, or switch to using a different YT frontend: https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends?tab=readme-ov-file#youtube

Even easier: use btrfs or ZFS and tools that let you timeshift.

This is SO specific though…

If you’re this familiar with all the moving bits of this, why are you asking?

I’m only saying this because this is obviously someone who read a bunch of stuff about various things that are beyond their technical expertise but have no idea why they would even need such a stack.

Kind of a crazy thing to ask about here.

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If you’re running the exact same version, just do an apt update and then see if upgrade packages show up.