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From scratch? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by CAVOK@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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Hi. I'm currently rebuilding my setup from scratch, moving away from my old Pi. What's best practice these days? How would you do it? What cards are the best for the dashboard? How would you do presence detection (getting home), mqtt via ha, or stand alone?

Looking for good ideas, and possibly things to avoid.

TIA.

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[–] RedirectedPotato@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We moved off a pi onto a proxmox server for better storage etc.

Best cards for the dashboard are the cards that matter most to you. We have our solar stuff, and some switches that we use most, as well as the camera feed for the gate.

As for presence detection, the app has your location and a home/away entity that might be what you are looking for?

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's exactly what I'm doing as well. Got my VM set up, HAOS installed and bluetooth up and running. Now I'm starting to add my stuff already in my house and I'm looking for good ways to do it. I've also added it to tailscale and can access it from my phone.

It's SOOOO much faster than the Pi.

[–] RedirectedPotato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe get some metrics going with Grafana, makes exploring your data much easier

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Tried it a bit, didn't get very far but will have a look again. Very good tool to have some knowledge about.