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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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[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

One learning I had was to prefer devices that used AAA. A lot of the smart wireless devices use button batteries. The pro is that they are smaller but it is annoying finding, ordering and replacing those batteries. AAA on the other hand is way easier to source and you can get rechargeable ones.

Most of the ThirdReality zigbee stuff uses AAA batteries so huge props to them.