Question on the recomended setup

[MaxK (Mark)]

I always like to refer folks to this thread.

Starting fresh - Show me what you wish you'd known when you started?

After a couple of power failures, some bulbs losing their config and HA not being available for a while I’m going to take the opportunity to start again, from a fresh, clean install of the latest and greatest version of Home Assistant. I have available to me: Zigbee lights Zigbee sockets WiFi plug sockets zwave sockets Zigbee door sensors z-wave PIRs Sonos Eufy doorbell. UK smart meter & Octopus energy Solar panels Zappi car charger ESPHome based alarm interface With that kind of thing in mi…

And please have a backup strategy that you have tested (you can prove you can recover from a backup). And the backup is not on the Raspberry PI. Something like this:

Add-on: Home Assistant Google Drive Backup

Home Assistant Google Drive Backup [image] About I’ve authored an add-on to serve as a complete solution for creating backups in Home Assistant and synchronizing them in Google Drive. In particular it: Automatically creates new backups on a configurable schedule. Uploads any backups it finds to Google Drive. Automatically cleans up old backups in Home Assistant and Google Drive. Integrates with Home Assistant Notifications, and provides sensors you can trigger off of if something goes wro…