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…

Yeah, Home Assistant Supervised really is the way to go for people who want the simplicity of the addons but also full access to the host OS. As for Tradfri, I have many devices from them but never used their gateway, mainly because a lot of people were complaining about its stability even without …

Thanks. I have indeed chosen for Home Assistant Supervised. I will also see if I can move away form the ikea hub. Thanks again.

Yeah I use node-red extensively as well. almost all of my HA automations are in NR now.Together they blend great.

as i sit here in a household with apple devices, nest devices, and google home, none of which let me access things outside their ecosystems without either 1000 hacks or private API access, i think you and i have very different definitions of “walled garden”

i’ve tried ‘all’ the different HA configurations and found that using my pi4 with their raspbian lite os + HA unsupported supervised install to be the most flexible and stable way to use HA. (i did not install networkmanager and install gives warnings during install that its missing, but find the de…

lol, if you can relate to Paul Hibbert then there is no hope for you have a look at this post to see what the methods are and what each offer [image] Home Assistant Installation Methods Community Guides Home Assistant Installation Methods Name Required Skills Includes…

[image] realjax: Physical lan connection points are not available all throughout my house, so for now I am bound to use WIFI. Surely since you are only just starting out with HA anyway, you could use a short patch lead and have the HA RPi right next to your router… it runs headless so there i…

[image] realjax: 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 official su…

I found HA to be very easy to use. Maybe it’s because I’ve been using Linux since first loading Slackware Linux back in 1993 from 30 floppy disks on a Packard Bell 486 sx 25MHz. It had no math co-processor so you had to compile the Linux kernel with the math co-processor emulator enabled. I soon …

Why are things so difficult?

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aidbish (Adrian) August 5, 2020, 3:57am 20

lol, if you can relate to Paul Hibbert then there is no hope for you

have a look at this post to see what the methods are and what each offer

Then look at the community supported ones

if you cant find one there to your requirements. then my first statement stands.