I have seen a few posts over the years of people looking for help (for hire), haven’t seen anyone advertising their services though. I did read through the rules and did not see any prohibition, so I hope it’s OK.
I am probably not the best at Home Assistant, but certainly not the worst, either. And my rates are commensurate.
I just find myself between jobs and therefore have the time and likely expertise and looking for someone else who may be the other way around, as I have been at different times in the past.
Need a little help with your config?
Not sure which hardware to buy?
Stuck on writing some YAML config (or code)?
Need a bug fixed with some Integration you count on?
No one replying to your issue or forum post?
I have not written any full Integrations yet, but I suppose that’s only a matter of time, especially once I hang this shingle out.
Chances are I am not in your area so I will not be doing local (physical) installations or wiring, etc. but you should be able to find various contractors to do that part. But I could help with the specification, architecture (pre-install), and configuration and custom coding (post-install) so you end up with a cohesive and maintainable system.
Feel free to shoot me a PM with what you have in mind and I’ll get back to you ASAP. I am between jobs and so I’ve been hanging around the forums quite a bit lately, and could probably give a pretty quick turnaround on some coding or config issues.
P.S. - I still believe that people should try and learn as much as they can about HA and eventually try to master it themselves, but unlike some (many?) others here at the forums I realize that can seem daunting to some people, especially from the outset. Maybe you just need a little help to get started, or get over some hump. I am happy to explain what I am doing as we go along, if you are interested in learning. And of course you will get all code, etc. Any Integration work I do will be submitted to the relevant project(s) under the appropriate (likely, F/LOSS) license(s).
Before someone flags this as spam, I’ll make a suggestion. Pick a topic you are good at and make a YouTube video tutorial. No one is going to hire you if you can’t show your prior work. You Tube videos would give you some creds.
Yes I am well aware I am virtually unknown in the community. You are of course right. And eventually I probably will.
But everyone has to start somewhere.
FWIW, everyone I have known all my life has asked me why I have not done something with computers for a living. I always had my reasons but I am re-thinking those. Anyway that’s why I have done essentially nothing to promote myself until now.
I do have some things on GitHub and SourceHut (amongst many other F/LOSS mailing lists and IRC) but not really HA related and not much recent (as I spent most of my time slaving away on the hamster wheel of my usual $dayjob).
So to start I guess I was just looking for some small potatoes stuff, helping people out here and there for a few bucks. If they didn’t have the time or inclination to help themselves via the forums.
The point is technically, putting up a resume or offer to work is not allowed, so this won’t be here long. Help wanted is allowed, and I just bumped one of those up here to social earlier. Look for those.
If you want to do a shameless post in the HA discord, you may be able to get that to stick.
Try the Home Assistant facebook group or Reddit. I don’t know what kind of response you would get there, but you might try. And critiquing your resume’- it says more about what you can’t do than what you can. But this is the wrong venue for it.
I just recalled that the Arduino forums have a help wanted/offered section.
I didn’t want to argue with people above who were trying to be helpful. But as stated in OP, I sure couldn’t find that actually written anywhere. But some times there are “unwritten rules.” So, I’m glad I took the chance.
Still no takers, though.
I’ve also reached out to some local low voltage wiring and home theater installers I know (amongst others).
If you go this route, here is a suggestion.
Bring EVERYTHING into your home/office and set it all up. Get all sensors and switched integrated into Home Assistant and make a useable dashboard. Then let the installers install them.
While you have the host computer, install Zerotier. This would let you do remote maintenance.
I considered that but installing it is more complex than Zerotier, requiring a host computer with a public-facing IP address. Yes there are solutions for this like DuckDNS. I did have DuckDNS for a while, but I was spending too much time keeping it working.
It takes me two or three minutes to add a new PC to my Zerotier network, then I can access it from anywhere that I have Internet.
Yes, but if this is your business $18/month isn’t too much to pay for a service you will likely be charging your clients.
And my rates are commensurate.
