I recently switched to a Yellow and HAOS, from a generic Raspberry Pi 4 running Ubuntu 22.04 with a container install. Compared with a container install, day-to-day maintenance is easier and more straightforward. Also, I’ve gotten Matter to work finally (with two devices so far).
I know I can run on faster hardware, but I like the Pi’s energy efficiency. The performance is fine, or at least I’ve not noticed any issue with how quickly lights turn on. Besides, constraints are fun!
Not being as techie as most, I have a question…
I make daily backups of my HA and also sometimes NVM as well as JSON backups in ZWave JS.
If my hardware (Yellow Box) ever completely fails, would that be enough to restore my setup on a new Yellow Box ? I have some 60 ZWave, 15 Zigbee and also some Tuya, TP Link-Kasa and other Wifi devices.
As far as I know, yes. I don’t use the native backup. Remember to back up outside the hardware running HA.
I recently moved to a Yellow from another Pi and the latest backup was basically all I needed, for 90% of the functionality. There were a few things I needed from the old Pi (my wake word, for example), but nothing crucial or irreplaceable. I use the auto-backup custom integration and rsync the backup directory to another storage each night.
Thanks. That is good news. I also have the auto backup with additional auto backup to Google Drive.