Home Assistant beginners
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From personal experience as much as I like docker, I wouldn't run HA on it, it just seems such a pain vs a VM.
But with things like Z2M you'll have to run it as an additional container and point HA to it.
Hmm OK, do you use a VM? On windows or linux?
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Yeah I use a VM. On the HA site there's premade images for different hyper visors. I run it under ESXi, it's completely hassle free.
OK, I'm such a noob at all this VM and docker stuff (never having used either). RPi works so easily but it's getting slow now I think
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+1 for VM, I've got it running under VirtualBox on Linux I think? I threw it together at the time to test HA out and it's been rock solid so left it.
I've never got along with docker for the purposes it's suggested at work either, maybe I'm just behind the times.
I've never got along with docker for the purposes it's suggested at work either, maybe I'm just behind the times.
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Is it an Rpi4? If so then paired with an SSD it should be plenty good enough.
3B+, so only 1GB RAM. I have a NUC to use so won't bother upgrading to a Pi4 as they are £100+ anyway!
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Ah fair! Is the NUC doing anything else currently? If not then run it bare metal or run a hypervisor on it.
Personally for migrations I would just do a fresh install, and then copy over the necessary configs, automations, anything yaml. You'll lose history but at least you'll know it's now a clean working setup.
It runs a screen in the hallway which is just HA dashboard.. I'd quite like to retain that functionality as a Pi 3 I don't think will run the dashboard well as it has RTSP cameras showing. Hence my thinking was to run Ubuntu or windows
I’m not a HA beginner by any standard but I need help here! Can someone point me to a tutorial on how to set up HA with a SSL certificate preferably one that doesn’t rely on DuckDNS.
Can someone also confirm that once a SSL cert has been sorted out that homeassistant.local can be accessed over HTTPS.
As you may be able to tell, Ive really got myself tied up in knots with this issue
EDIT: As is often the case, after I requested help, I discovered a fix. In my particular case, although I had all the certs and added the necessary text to the config file, I hadn't cleared the cache of my web browser. I was juggling so many balls and so many tutorials that hadn't picked up this step.
Can someone also confirm that once a SSL cert has been sorted out that homeassistant.local can be accessed over HTTPS.
As you may be able to tell, Ive really got myself tied up in knots with this issue
EDIT: As is often the case, after I requested help, I discovered a fix. In my particular case, although I had all the certs and added the necessary text to the config file, I hadn't cleared the cache of my web browser. I was juggling so many balls and so many tutorials that hadn't picked up this step.
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Is the zigbee stick detected by Ubuntu?
I'm using a NUC with ubuntu for this virtualbox VM, but I can't seem to detect any USB devices (looking for the zigbee stick)
Any ideas?
Yeah, all sorted now I think....
Next issue is the WebRTC server app - RTSP stream no longer working on the virtual machine, it was working fine on the Rasp Pi to access my hikvision cameras. It says "WebRTC server not available"
HA very odd sometimes, did a load of uninstalling restarting and it's back to business..
Now the NUC can't handle showing HA dashboard with 4 rtsp streams and running HA (system just locks up) so hopefully some more ram will sort it :/
Now the NUC can't handle showing HA dashboard with 4 rtsp streams and running HA (system just locks up) so hopefully some more ram will sort it :/
Got a couple of hours to upgrade my home assistant wall panel today.... 
Hacked a Fire 10 HD out of its brains to make it a normal tablet, then designed and 3d printed a magnetic cover.
Bit of plastering and it's working nippy quick!
More photos here if interested (need to find a better place than imgur to upload, it's getting harder and harder to just post images!!)
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Hacked a Fire 10 HD out of its brains to make it a normal tablet, then designed and 3d printed a magnetic cover.
Bit of plastering and it's working nippy quick!
More photos here if interested (need to find a better place than imgur to upload, it's getting harder and harder to just post images!!)
Hands on Katie on Instagram: "Built a wall-mounted control panel for Home Assistant! 3d Printer + Kindle fire + some magnets for the clip on cover = awesomeness! I'd just like to point out there's a wire running down the wall... quite pleased with
172 likes, 10 comments - handsonk80 on May 12, 2023: "Built a wall-mounted control panel for Home Assistant! 3d Printer + Kindle fire + some magnets for the clip on cover = awesomeness! I'd just like to point out there's a wire running down the wall... quite pleased with my plastering to...
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Nice work Katie 
Not sure if it interests you, but you can rip the battery out of them and wire 5v up to the battery circuit board and run them without the battery to save on any potential issues I've done it with two now, a HD10 and a HD8. I figured I'd rather not have the worry of the inevitable battery swelling. And one less fire risk attached to the wall is always a bonus
Not sure if it interests you, but you can rip the battery out of them and wire 5v up to the battery circuit board and run them without the battery to save on any potential issues
I've done it with two now, a HD10 and a HD8. I figured I'd rather not have the worry of the inevitable battery swelling. And one less fire risk attached to the wall is always a bonus
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My tablet in the hallway. The frame I had to print in two halves, still needs to be glued together and made to look better.
Great idea Andy! Just as well I've got a magnetic cover!! I might add that to the list!Nice work Katie
Not sure if it interests you, but you can rip the battery out of them and wire 5v up to the battery circuit board and run them without the battery to save on any potential issues