Deep Dive of Home Assistant installations and hardware options

liked and subscribed! after 40y (count em) in IT dealing with people who don't 'do' overviews this is a great pace, not too much hocus pocus or uneccesary detail, just enough sign posts to get the info if you need, not patronising and excellent taste in t-shirts. Great stuff!

Excelent overview, what made me to subscribe was the fact that the only thing that made you to get a help from the glass held in your hand troughout most ot the video, was the window's updates :) Just laughed and subscribed. Thanks

Hey.! Truly the BEST video on Install types of HA I have seen to date. Thanks heaps for this - keep up the great work. Sydney Australia

This video conviced me to go for VM installation on proxmox installed on my router. Great video!

Great channel subscriber growth. Thanks for outlining all the HA options.

I have a NUC11 w/ Proxmox VE, it’s loses HAOS every two days & has to be rebooted to work again. Can’t figure it out at all. I think I’m going to go to bare metal install after watching this video. Thank you!

perfect insights shared here !

WOW, so glad I found this video and channel. A year ago I went the VM on Windows 10 route just to see if I wanted to ditch SmartThings. I was thinking... is he going to mention all the update reboots and almost wet myself when you did. So True! Needless to say, I am now looking to go the dedicated hardware route and this was very helpful. Thank you. BTW, where do I find the Domain/Count screen in HA?

best vid on the topic

As a hacker, comments are cool as the programmer comments. Well, there's usually never enough time…love your Style of teaching

Hi, what do you think about running HA on a synology Nas? If so, which one would you recomment ?

hi, thank you for the informative videos, it helps a lot. I want to build something in my weekend house what I only visit every 2nd week, but want to monitor, the potential dangers, gasleak, fire, opend windows, doors, and strangers inside. so few sencors, and cameras is enough. As I see, follow your informations, a pre-loaded r.pie would be the best option, or maybe, a cheap retired 'office pc' they sell it pretty cheap. I want to record videos, if somebody is inside, and remote communication would be grate so maybe the pc is better - is it possible to reach a HAOS through remote control, or you need a windows machine - for example, and run HA as a VM, and reach your pc - for a daily check for example - throug some standard solution? I'm just wondering, can you redommend a full process video, or playlist, from zero, to working sencors. Thank you again, keep up the good work. I'm going through your channel, maybe find the answers there!

Excellent explanation. My HA runs on a RPi4 + SSD . I have about 150+ devices, including about 40+ on Zigbee2Mqtt . I have a small fan (connected to a smart USB) which keeps the RPi CPU temperature below 107 F (42 C ) . Nabu Casa works well in remote locations and integrates well to my Alexa's. I am in the process of making a change to a Mini PC and have shortlisted a " Dell Optiplex 7040 Mini PC (Intel Core i5 6th gen, 16 GB DDR4 RAM, 512 GB SSD, Windows 11, WiFi, Intel HD Graphics|USB, Ethernet, DP) ". I plan to run HA and a Plex Server . Which path should I take with minimal interventions !! I am not from the IT discipline but have always been fascinated with technology.

I started on a Pi4, then switched like you did to a intel NUC bare metal, but then i wondered what am i going to do with my Pi4? Found a video that show now to install openmediavault on the pi and also added plex media server on it as well and believe it or not it works well. Also switched to proxmox on my NUC and running HAOS on it also run a windows VM when i need/want to as well along with a web server VM. Works well. Am storing the VM's on the openmediavault NAS in case one or the other crash and burns. Will see how well it works so far HAOS is running fast and great, just gave it 2 cores and 4 gigs of ram and 32 gig of storage. running fast so far. Can always up it if it starts running slow.