happyborg3d ago

Dipping my toes into #HomeAutomation starting with a couple of #Sonoff temp/humidity sensors + Dongle Lite to use with my laptop and #HomeAssistant before having a dedicated hub.

That's £51 so ok to play and get the basics.

Got any thoughts or suggestions?

Home Assistant Green looks good for a dedicated hub but at £150 a bit much until I've tested the basics out. This is for a house I'm not living in yet so monitoring is all I need.

Show threadMatthijs3d ago
@happyborg i would buy a cheap nuc and then you can go all out on hone assistant but also other vm’s if you use proxmox
Show threadhappyborg3d ago

@mvrenselaar that's interesting thanks. Hadn't heard of either of those.

So your suggesting an #NUC and use #Proxmox to support HA and other handy apps in different VMs? Do you have a setup like this?

Show threadMatthijs

@happyborg yes. HA in one, pihole in another and whatever i want as well.

A whole new rabbit hole :)

Mar 24 at 6:24pmWeb