Anyone else running Home Assistant?

[Cyberpyr8]

I have jumped into the world of Home Assistant to control all the smart things in my house.

I was wondering if anyone on here uses it and was looking for some suggestions on how to get the most from it. I have almost all of my devices in the system and I created a few dashboards. I am using the iOS app and have a carplay dashboard I find very useful. I'm still in the process of moving my automations over from Google Home to HA. Just wondering what else anyone on here (the land of tinkerers) have come up with.

[Painthappy]

I'm not familiar with this "home assistant". I'll have to check it out. I have samsung "smart things" that controls my house light and what-not. It seems like it is being less and less supported sadly. Having certain lights come one 15 minutes before sunset and a going off at a certain time is really nice to have.

[RuleOfSines]

Hm, I haven't yet but am interested now. I use a Hubitat C8 to manage my smart home devices, and an Apple Home integration to get the voice control. I think last time I looked at Home Assistant it didn't have an offline voice recognition capability yet.

[Cyberpyr8]

Yeah I have Wyze, Govee, Tuya (Smart Life), Meross, Litter-Robot and a Husqvarna Automower. This let's me add and control it all. I have been using Google Home to control stuff but it's limited compared to HA.

I have mine running on a VM on an old Dell PC. It's working fast for the limited hardware.

[RuleOfSines]

Does it function without an internet connection? That was one of the big reasons I got the Hubitat C8 to manage my devices.

[RAZRBAKK]

All locally hosted, so you're in control.

[Cyberpyr8]

The URL is local. I would imagine it would but I haven't tried it yet.

[Tarsun2]

i have a few different systems but am slowly trying to consolidate. have one system is nice. Very little automation for me though.

[RAZRBAKK]

I run HA on an old thinkpad. Currently using a Conbee II as my Zigbee connection. Looking to upgrade my main device to either one of the HA appliances or build a mini-pc out. I'd say it's worth investing in decent hub to run everything. My Conbee seems to have some interference issues and can be a little slow to react.

Beyond that, I haven't expanded my IoT device library very much, but will be over the next year. I currently run a bunch of IKEA Tradfri lights and have plans to add a weather station to the mix once I move into a place with a yard.

[Cyberpyr8]

Research the weather station before you buy it. I have a LaCrosse and the integration stopped working. Looks like it might be fixed with the Feb 5th release, but it sucks not having that data.

I have about 70-80 smart devices hooked up. I have a dedicated wifi network for them all. That complicates my connectivity slightly. I have the PC dual homed so that I can RDP to the PC hosting from my main PC but keeping the IoT devices on their own network. The VM only connects to my devices network for a cleaner setup. I have about 16 apps to control the different devices (Wyze, iRobot, Whisper, Smart Life...), so having the one interface has been nice. I finished moving my automations over. I now have 42 and that was consolidating some down with HA's ability to do multiple things. I also had some things running directly from the vendor's app since some of them could do more than Google Home. But HA has so many capabilities to automate stuff, I was bale to get everything into one app.

My only issue is that I can't get Roomba, Midea AC and Ecobee thermostats working yet. I can live without the Roomba integration for now. They run on a schedule and do what they're supposed to. The AC is the same way.