Best practices?

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi people.

I have posted a few posts to say hello, but I guess too much text and too little interest to recieve any answers.

I will install Hassio on a rasp3 about to land in my mail shortly.

Is there any good guides or best practises on how to do stuff after the first initial install? I have played around with a VM image for a few days and really look forward to connect my KNX lighting/ heating/ scenes system + my robo vacuumer and Google devices to this when the Raspberry arrives!

Love to hear from you! :+1:

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Sorry your hellos have fallen unhellod (is hellod even a word)

long term i would look at doing a backup of your config to some other device/storage as SD cards are a bit funny at times and there is nothing like getting it all working and then loosing every thing.

I would highly recommend making one change at a time, and starting with split config file (i.e. no everything in on long yaml file) tho depending on what your skill level is, that might also be a little why down the road.

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also disable uPNP on your router… (always)
and unless you know exactly what your doing, don’t use a reverse proxy and have it in the trusted network scope/list

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Split config file as in for instance one config per room? Is there a possibility for auto backup to network location?

Thx for the helloes! ,:rofl::hugs:

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Thanks for tips. Why cancel upnp?

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Sorry, i should have posted links to what i meant.

It just makes it a little easier to manage when you start running away with 30 + automation and loads of devices and groups.

If you need examples, the best thing to do is look at someone elses config.


towards the end it has example configs, most have a little intro so you can see what the are doing with it.
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uPNP allows anything in your local network to open and forward ports from the internet to its IP, which is in my eyes is more dangerous than convenient. If you need to port forward, for torrents or others, then set it up.
(my 2 cents on uPNP)

I know there was issues here with the SAMBA plugin share setting a uPNP rule up and that allowed people to remotely edit your config without a username and password (if guest was allowed in the SAMBA plugin) Tho i think this was changed in the defaults of the SAMBA plugin.

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