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Mind that you should not use a Pi with SD card for HA. I'm not sure what the official stance is, but: In my peer group failing SD cards were responsible for a v
by archi42 1y ago
Mind that you should not use a Pi with SD card for HA. I'm not sure what the official stance is, but: In my peer group failing SD cards were responsible for a vast majority of issues. Causes are probably a mixture of heavy logging and power outages; either from the grid, or user error not shutting down the Pi before disconnecting power.
At our house I run HAOS in a VM (on a beefy server). My wife uses the app on her phone (as do I), and we have a cheap tablet with the app for guests. On the laptops/desktops we also have access to the web UI.
As the article points out, remote access for the phones can be done via the commercial offering or a VPN (as in our case: wireguard on the OpnSense).
- xnzakg 1y agoCompletely anecdotal experience but I've been running HA on a Pi from SD for quite a few years now with no issues.
- baq 1y agoWholly depends on how much stuff you’ve got. I’ve started having issues with the Linux io scheduler when the auto backups got large (1G+), the thing just hung and needed a power cycle.
- diggan 1y ago> Wholly depends on how much stuff you’ve got Also what SD card you have, the durability between different models differ a lot. The SD card I use for my dashcam been working for years (A "SanDisk MAX ENDURANCE" card), some other cheaper SD cards can stop working properly after just months if you're using them for write-heavy stuff.
- raffraffraff 1y agoAnecdotal agree, but I only use it for my lights (about 20 smart bulbs + 5 sensors + 4 remotes) and I never tinker with it. At least 4 years later, that little Raspberry Pi 3 + ZigBee dongle + sdcard are kinda forgotten about.
- mook 1y agoInteresting; my Raspberry Pi 3B+ + Zwave dongle + SDcard eventually got too slow (to the point that HAOS updates would fail). Switched it to an old ChromeBox and it's been no problems since.