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Is Home Assistant the recommended default for smart homes? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Trilogy3452@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm planning to build several WiFi connected devices for home automation: an AC remote control and air quality sensors. These devices would send data and be controlled through a local server. I'm considering two approaches: running custom software on a server PC (hardware to be determined) or integrating with Home Assistant's protocols and purchasing their hardware. Would using Home Assistant be excessive for this use case?

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[–] Trilogy3452@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That's a good point. This can help me with things like adding a DNS server (I'm assuming pi-hole can be run standalone on a mini PC)

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 7 points 5 months ago

I bought a used mini PC and then set up Proxmox. This little thing is a lot more capable than the Raspberry I used before and it runs my complete home lab, excluding my NAS.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

If you're going to run Home Assistant OS you'd be able to run anything that can run in docker. Some things are available to install directly inside the Home Assistant apps system, otherwise you can install portainer and run any docker capable software.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can also install ad guard home as an add on INSIDE Home Assistant. Works great!

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Yep! While I didn’t run mine through HA, I much preferred AdGuardHome over PiHole.