Hi all,
I’m new to home assistant, but a bit tech savvy. I’m been playing with smart home stuff for a while with a Unifi Network setup. I’m mostly trying to bridge everything into HomeKit for ease of use for my family. We al have iPhones.
I scrapped Homebridge and installed HASS on my pi4 a month+ ago. Everything was working great and i setup my outdoor Ring lights with automation. I had Nest integrated and using blueprint automations for climate control if we’re working from home vs traveling and guest room.
Everything has sort of stopped working in the las few days. All my climate control automations broke and I couldn’t trust what I was seeing in HomeKit to what was actually on the thermostat. Lights show non response. Ring MQTT automations (which were a bit laggy before) are even worse now. I have to reload integrations constantly.
Not sure what I’m doing wrong. Is it my network setup? Is it the HomeKit Bridge? Could it be the pi4 that’s a bottle neck?
In principle, it sounds like your Pi4 shouldn’t be an issue - I ran my whole setup on one for about a year and a half, including quite a number of devices, add-ons, and integrations.
One issue I had previously - independent of the Pi 4 - was that one device that exposed several MQTTs sensor values bogged down my installation. It updated everything on a per-second basis which flooded my logs and the recorder couldn’t keep up with it.
Are you running the Pi off an SD-Card?
If so, there might be I/O Wait/Performance issues.
That’s what I used - don’t remember having anything issues creating the image on the portable SSD with the imager, but you need to make sure that your Pi is configured so that it boots from it.