HA is my first smart home. I’ve generally avoided smart homes because I don’t trust vendors with my data. I like that I can set up wireguard into my network and control my smart home without having to rely on 3rd party services.

Some of my notes and projects that might be of interest here:

• My notes on operating home assistant with orange pi hardware including hardening the OS. I currently operate HA on an orange pi zero 2w so you’ll want to look at that note for it.
• My own scripts for managing many wireguard clients.
• My own scripts for managing a certificate authority which I use to secure HA on my LAN with TLS.