Hej HA-Community,
I’m new to the scene and just want to say Hello anf Thanks for that piece of software.and community work.
I’m starting with a core installation on Debian Bookworm on a RPI4 and want to control a handful Shelly Plugs, later collect data from a Shelly pro 3EM, finally there could be a PV-System with battery. A (homegrown) voice assistant could be a funny option and of course the use of mobile apps… I’m looking forward to discover the possibilities!
Regards,
Boris
Please let me give you one piece of advice to avoid future frustration and headaches. Start out with a full HAOS installation, and do not mess with a core installation. Buy a second Raspberry Pi if you want to do something else on the same computer…
Let me give you another piece of advice to avoid future frustration and headaches. Get a better power supply for your RPIs. No, the official PS is generally not strong enough after some time. When it starts ‘randomly’ rebooting, it is probably the PS.
Running Container (docker) on a Pi with the official power supply for years now without a single crash or upgrade problem.
Get yourself a decent server. All this rp talk is just nothing. You can buy online intel core 2 or later for a fraction of price when they were new. It will server you well. Upgrade memory, if needed, put at least one ssd in it, buy some used nvidia gpu, you can find them for practicaly nothing online, google coral and there you have it. Your personal server for maybe 300 - 400 € that will work flawlessly.
Install on it debian and put everything in docker compose. This is far the best solution.
I didn’t say all of them are bad. Although I may have certainly implied it. Sorry for that.
But it is the most useful fix when someone says their PI is rebooting.
I just recommend getting ahead of it.
Glad you have the official Pi PS that works for years.
The official adapter is fine. It’s only when you start adding attached power hungry devices like external drives and radio adaptors (zigbee, zwave) that the load can get too much for it.
Hej all,
thank you very much for your comments and hints!
Since I am quite (very?) familiar with RPIs snd Debian for years (decades?), I know about the power supply. Have some RPIs running for Kodi, NextCloud, MailServer, individual stuff.
Core installation is my personal claim to have the whole thing completely under control and have fun with hacking and understanding. I don’t want a black box, what a docker container probably would be.
In fact, I am yet running into troubles with the core installation and will eventually have to ask for support - in a different thread.
Regards,
Boris
Welcome to the forum Boris.
Haffun!
After some experiences I found HA too black boxed, not complete open, somehow restricted.
I will remain a member here to follow the conversations, but am switching to openHAB, at least for now.
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Here’s all the code…
ALL OF IT…
I guess that has to be: I don’t understand how HA works and/or cannot get the hang of it.
All the replies you got are from enthusiasts helping eachother and newcomers.
Really, HA is the most used, most versatile, constantly being improved with new features (every month a new release, with in between bugfixes - if necessary) and more user-friendly to set up through the webUI.
Because HA is so powerfull and be used to control ‘everything’ it can overwhelm starters.
Anyhow, I’m not gaining anything by this, but you seem to be so wrong in your evaluations.
In case anyone is interested in following BruderB’s openHAB experiences, it begins here:
where this surprising claim is made:
I tried with HomeAssistant but after some experiences, I found HA too black-boxed, not true open source.
BruderB, if you have a moment, what is your interpretation of the term “open source” and how is Home Assistant not “true open-source”?
Which part of Home Assistant’s source code is not open-source?
I will speculate as the only instance Home Assistant is not open source is when it interfaces through to cloud based interfaces. This could be perceived as not being open source, but HA doesn’t make those connections, open source third party integrations do.
An example. The Rivian unofficial integration is open source but hits the closed source Rivian API. I am personally fine with this, as I don’t want my truck interface exposed. (I also understand it is about profit and business).
To say home assistant is not open source is ludicrous.
“Prepare ship for ludicrous speed” -------- My apologies to Spaceballs
We suggested HAOS for them and the first thing suggested to OP was openhabian, which I suspect is a different but similarly structured copy of HAOS.
I don’t know about there, but here there is a core bare version that if they want to play with that in a raspi, then it’s available.