Hi everyone! I am new to HA as well as computer programming/coding, so forgive me if my question seems elementary!
I have been working with home automation for the last 15 years (X10 days) and a few years ago I purchased a Smartthings hub. Being dissatisfied with the limited configuration of ST and the fact that it was cloud-based with no backups I looked for alternatives. HA seemed to be a great option for me to manage 120 devices. I initially started with RPi 3, fell in love with it, and soon upgraded it to a NUC.
I loaded the HASS.OS image in the NUC (since I did not need access to a different OS or have to deal with the complexities of docker).
I am showing about 452gb of space left on my SSD hard drive, after loading the disk space integration. My question is can that space be used for something like backing up data, music, photos, etc.
Thanks so much for the info! Very simple just create a directory!
Update: well I was able to create a directory under the “share” directory. Using SAMBA it would not allow me to put a new directory in the root “HASSIO”. I was able to put about 200 mp3 files in this director.
What I found out the hard way was that everytime a snapshot was created it copied all these mp3 files each time. This of course resulted in snapshots several gigs in size.
What I am trying to accomplish is to use this extra space to set up a Plex server that could work with HA. Possibly setting up playlist that could be directed to individual or groups of speakers.
Any additional ideas would be helpful, totally noob here!