Smart home - Home Assistant

mushtafa · 4 Sep 2021 at 21:06

Looking at ditching Smartthings and looking at Home Assistant.

Are there any users here who can give advice?

I also see Hubitat being recommended as well - how does this compare?

I've had a Google, but there is so much info out there, it's a bit of a minefield at the moment.

mushtafa · 5 Sep 2021 at 18:34

Thanks for that. I found a decent Facebook group which has kept me busy reading all day.

I'd also like to keep everything local as the Smarttthings keeps going offline all the time is too unreliable.

mushtafa · 6 Sep 2021 at 21:33

Thanks, I'll take a look

mushtafa · 10 Sep 2021 at 17:27

I installed the HA docker on my unraid server and had a butchers. It's certainly not plug and play! Not been able to open it outside the network yet, or integrate Smartthings. I'll keep playing and breaking it

mushtafa · 15 Sep 2021 at 07:47

mikehhhhhhh said:
HA in docker is crippled because you lose Supervisor and have to manage a lot of depedencies manually.

It's far nicer running HAOS in a VM or baremetal on something like a Pi.

I keep reading and seeing 'supervisor' in guides and wondered why I didn't have it.

If it's going to be easier/better I'll look at a Pi or NUC