Are there consultants who can help a newbie get HA setup?
I have a thermostat and 11 devices.
I have been on Vera and want to migrate off to HA.
Just read the docs and when you hit a wall, ask specific questions here.
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Iām afraid you are going to have to do it the hard way and become an expert yourself.
My advice is avoid AI as it is taught from out of date documentation in this fast moving world of home automation, and the slop it produces will cause you great confusion.
You could start here:
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Once I get my hub set up the way I want, I donāt want it to be forced to updated drivers or the OS.
Is it possible do keep it from automatically updating?
Yes, by default this is already how it works, manual updates. When updates are released, always read the release notes before you start updating.
You donāt have control over supervisor updates.
Well I seem toā¦
Not always.
āA fix for this security issue has been rolled out to all affected Home Assistant users via the Supervisor auto-update system and this issue is no longer present.ā
From: Disclosure: Supervisor security vulnerability - Blog - Home Assistant Community
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Do things break with the supervisor updates?
The correct answer is āsometimesā hence the strong recommendation to read the release notes carefully and take particular care of the breaking changes section before pressing the update button, or go back and see if there was a recent update that sneaked in if you encounter problems.
In HA, āBreaking changesā = " Backward-incompatible changes". It is usually the last paragraph in the new release notes. For me, it is the FIRST section I read before doing an update.