Hello, I am new to Home Assistant. I like all of its features and the possibilities seems endless. However, I dont understand why this is such a walled garden?? I ran into several network issues (still not resolved) and it is an extreme pain in the @ss to get those resolved because I have to bend …

To accurately understand why things are the way they are would require input from the project’s founder and architect. However, he doesn’t normally get involved in this sort of historical analysis of past design decisions. All I can offer you is what I’ve gathered over the course of my involvement w…

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Thanks. I will try that. This is however, another fine example. Difficult. Please keep in mind that currently this installation method is not officially supported by the Home Assistant team, and therefore you are responsible for updating and managing updates and security on the base OS, no offi…

it does have a bit of a steep learning curve. It is however getting easier and better. a year ago was much more difficult to get started. Once you learn the basics its much more user friendly. Im in over a year, and still learning new stuff almost every time I play with my setup (daily.)

I have been a Node-Red user for several years now, even developed and extended a few custom nodes there. Node-Red feels a lot more open and more accessible but unfortunately its dashboard functionality is too limited ( and too slow) so I went looking at HA. Again, because I already tried last year …

I understand that some of HA’s quirks can be frustrating, but I do have 2 issues with what you said: HA is about as far from a walled garden approach as anyone can possibly get…it is an ecosystem that pretty much allows you to connect everything to everything. You said you had network issues…d…

It is by all means a walled garden. Home assistant (HassIO? HassOS? HassBian?) is a stand alone OS that is designed to keep users out. I understand this makes it a controllable ecosystem that limits possible user created problems. But at the same time it is patronising towards more experienced user…

Probably the best way to go it’s with the pre-built VM images. It is the most effortless, easiest to maintain, backup and restore. I found myself having issues with the format “Hassio” install on RPi3. It’s always picky and for many it doesn’t start and gets stuck somewhere along the way for random…

[image] realjax: It is by all means a walled garden. Home assistant (HassIO? HassOS? HassBian?) is a stand alone OS that is designed to keep users out Yes, this is true. But you aren’t the target user for Home Assistant OS. This is for people who know half as much as you do. These people d…

I’m curious as to what networking issues you had? I recently set up a RPi3B+ to repave a VirtualBox setup and it worked very easily. I had moved to a VM a year back after finding the RPi slow, but recent updates have dramatically changed that. As long as you’re not installing a bazillion add ons or…

Looking through his post history, it seems to be related to HA connecting to a network via wifi. I would have helped but it’s a route very few have gone through, including me. Most people hard wire HA for the fastest network connections.

Why are things so difficult?

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francisp (Francis) August 4, 2020, 9:22am 2

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