New user to HA from Velbert Area

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Dear community,
May I ask if somebody might be interessted to support me for the first steps on HA.
My basic experience based on OpenHab since 3 years, system nicely working, but…

I see many advantages in HA, better integration for ESP32, WLED and other market place apps and I would like to give HA a big chance to be the smart home system.
What do I have.

  • KNX based actors, dimmer, sensors and so on.
  • Shelly’s, Deconz ConBee II, Alexa
  • Home Entertainment Integration

I would like to install the HAOS on a Proxmox Virtual Machine.

Somebody which might give some hints for easy integration of all the stuff (I fear a lot for the KNX Items), may be in real life, would be great and success will be celebrated by a nice barbeque event with some nice drinks, as prefered.

Regards and cu soon.
Gerd

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Welcome! I can’t help you with any of your integrations (nor can I come to the barbecue), but I can give you one hint which should help.

If you want to for a proxmox install follow this guide. It helped me when I did the same thing

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I’ve seen mixed reports - mostly KNX seems to be a bit fiddly.

Do you use deCONZ? If so see https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/deconz

We don’t tend to recommend deCONZ - ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT are more actively. Regardless it should be trivial.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/alexa is trivial if you use Nabu Casa (paid) and a bit fiddly if you do it manually.

Is that a brand? A covering term for a range of devices?

I would recommend the Discord server for getting more interactive help than you can get here - though here works better for “fire and forget” questions.

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Dear Community, phantastic replies for my initial questions. THANK YOU

May I add additional question.
According to ShadowFist recommendation I installed Proxmox and HA on a spare pc, as I do not want to change on my server to testing.

  • Do I need the testing repo to get automatic install by the HA script?
    on my “productive” server I would not like to run testing.

By the way super simple and a big thank you to the developer!!

My Entertainment: Google TV Stick, Pioneer VSX932, Marantz, Shield

I did placed my KNX project file in the KNX import, seems to work soomthly.

So thank you for now, will report my items later