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Hi everyone, I’m new to working with Home Assistant and this community forum and I just wanted to say hi to everyone.

I’m from Ireland and I will soon have to demolish and rebuild my home due to defective concrete blocks being used in its construction.
I’m determined to make the best of a bad situation and make improvements when I rebuild my home.
I would like to ask for advice as to what I should do during construction to enable me to setup home assistant and integrate it with appliances etc?
I’m currently exploring home assistant on a Raspberry PI, should I use different hardware to allow future expansion and or features?

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Regards Padraic

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Welcome!

There are topics in this forum asking the same questions that have been answered. You can find them by using the search function. I searched for “new home build” and found 50+ results. Here is one of the results: What should my setup be for a new build home?

And this is a good resource too:

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Welcome!

Consider where your devices are going to be and whether you can lay cat-5 cable to those that can use it.

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Jchh got the idea, but use at least CAT6 cables instead.
CAT5 only support 100Mbit/s. CAT5e can support 1Gbit/s, but it is not as such an official standard.

And also lay cables even though the device you intend to use there at the moment do not have WiFi.
Cables provide a more stable connection with a less shared medium.
CAT6 cables can also provide a lot other network, like audio, picture, antenna, power over PoE, low voltage switching among others.

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yes, my mistake - typo and apologies. Cat-6 is what you need.

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