Home Assistant beginners

Demon said:
Is a R-Pi (probably a 5 with SSD) definitely not a good idea for HA?

I've been running HA as a VM in Unraid but due to the length of time and number of updates I am at a point I've got issues with legacy integration baggage and side loaded stuff that is now officially supported that I want to clear it out and start again.

I have had a couple of server hardware issues that meant it was out of action for a week which was a PITA as all my automation stopped, and on top of that, I have dedicated cores/memory for the VM which I could free up for Unraid which at times is max'd out.

I can see people mentioning compatibility issues so just wanted to check if it's a daft idea!
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I've been running on a 4 with SSD for a few years now, and I'd say I'm probably a med-heavy user. As an intro into HA it'll do you well, and last for a while.

Some of my energy monitoring devices are very chatty and those write out a lot to the database. I've now decided to move over a VM running on Proxmox - a) for the performance uplift and b) for the ease of backing up. Rather than having to deploy a new VM and then restore from backup I can just restore the entire VM.
 
What Zigbee controllers are people using? I've been running a Conbee2 for 5+ years now, and whilst it's been mostly good the range is a bit temperamental. I think support for Deconz is falling behind ZHA/Z2M, so looking to move forward with a slightly different setup, but also with much better range.

The contenders at the moment look to be:
- Sonoff zigbee 3.0 Plus E
- SMLight SLZB-06p7 (PoE)

I don't mind either PoE or USB.
 
Semple said:
The contenders at the moment look to be:
- Sonoff zigbee 3.0 Plus E
- SMLight SLZB-06p7 (PoE)
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I have a couple of SMLight SLZB-06P7 and they have been excellent so far - I wanted to get away from USB due to issues with virtualisation and placement. The only odd thing I noticed is one of them showed much higher temperature readings than the other but checking with an IR thermometer and thermal camera showed no difference so I used the temperature sensor calibration feature to sort that.
 
Simon42 said:
I have a couple of SMLight SLZB-06P7 and they have been excellent so far - I wanted to get away from USB due to issues with virtualisation and placement. The only odd thing I noticed is one of them showed much higher temperature readings than the other but checking with an IR thermometer and thermal camera showed no difference so I used the temperature sensor calibration feature to sort that.
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Interesting, you say a couple - was my understanding you could only run the one 'router' per network, with the idea of having repeaters to extend range / build redundancy. Do you have multiple zigbee networks set up? (Or are these in entirely different locations)
 
Semple said:
Interesting, you say a couple - was my understanding you could only run the one 'router' per network, with the idea of having repeaters to extend range / build redundancy. Do you have multiple zigbee networks set up? (Or are these in entirely different locations)
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You can have multiple coordinators with Z2M using multiple instances or ZHA and Z2M at the same time. I did have two for a while to experiment with ZHA vs Z2M but am now back to one coordinator for all devices plus a number of dedicated routers (re-flashed Sonoff Zigbee Dongles) so the second SLZB-06P7 is a spare that I can put in service in a few minutes if ever needed.
 
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