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Break even faster. Upgrading HA is a chore, it frequently breaks, ceases to understand its own configuration, drops integrations.

• kweingar 3y ago
  Not sure why this was downvoted. This has been my experience. It’s quite high maintenance.
• srmarm 3y ago
  I had this experience a few years back and just put it in the sorta janky but hacky fun box. However I did a totally fresh reinstall on some new hardware 6 months ago and it's been absolutely rock solid since and updates have been one click without issue. Was still a bit of a faff to set up (though tbf that was more around the VM side of things which was my perogative)
  • mholm 3y ago
    I had the exact same experience. I might even have some comments on an old HN account complaining about HA's disregard for upgrade stability. After another broken upgrade, I finally decided to just fix my install at a certain update in March 2022 and leave it there. I left it there for over a year, until I wanted a few newer features. I carved out a chunk of my weekend to make sure I had time to fix whatever broke with everything and... nothing broke after catching up on a full year of updates. It's now faster, just as reliable, and has more features than before. Home Assistant is finally ready for primetime in the average technical user's home.
• BrandoElFollito 3y ago
  "frequently"? I upgrade it automatically for years and they royally fucked the upgrade only once (I had to spend an hour to bring it back to life). Otherwise I never had an issue with my set of devices.
• jeroenhd 3y ago
  I've had that experience a few times a few years ago, but these days I don't even enable the "make a backup" checkbox when I upgrade HA. Things seem to break more if you pull in external software repositories (HACS) but that's to be expected.