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Absolutely, with so many different standards Home Assistant has already been the best solution for marrying multiple things together. Just need to get stubborn companies that lock down IoT devices from being open source or unwilling to provide any sort of API support to live in the year 2024 and realize people don't want to be locked into an individual application.

I think that eventually, Home Assistant will end up having to have a light version of itself with all the features they're adding to it. That way it can still be ran on a Raspberry Pi for the none advanced users. This is why I've recently migrated my home assistant over to a slim OptiPlex computer with an i7. That way I've feature proofed my integration, and it can run on a much more reliable NVME SSD!

Will, No one cares about whether you care or not, eather​@@surprisednow

But it is so difficult to use…

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They can't. That's the point of the Open Home Foundation.

I hope not Nvidia either

There's a whole bunch of Ethernet ZigBee coordinators out there

I love Node-Red too, but this would be more a "tinkerer/maker" option rather than main stream. The Home Assistant automations can do virtually anything Node Red can do now, just in a different way. Node Red is a third party solution also. I don't think it will ever go away, but I don;t think it is the way forward for a main stream system either. Just my opinion :)

@@EsotericArctos I agree Node red is easier to use but it's very much for power user.

You can actually specify the maximum columns in the new dashboard

Python was as well, so it really is a Dutch product through and through 😁

I actually agree with you, I’ve been looking at the Orion AGX, but I’m actually comparing it to like a Miniforums MS01 with an RTX A4000 SFF and 64GB ram which has a total cost of about 3k in the end but has capabilities to install promox, which I don’t think the AGX is locked into the running os.

Really? Mine doesn't...

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'It just works' is reserved for products he is paid to review.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t always “just work”. I’m a techie through and through (professionally in both software development and electronics design and implementation for 4 decades), and my straightforward implementation of HA just doesn’t work sometimes, for no apparent reason. I have a dedicated NUC with a Conbee II. For example, my Zigbee light switches work 95% of the time, but sometimes some of them just don’t. One minute they work, the next they don’t. Rebooting HA usually gets them working again. 95% reliability is pretty good, but not good enough.

@@Innesb It was actually just a joke. If you watch Hibbert Home Tech, it’s part of his schtick.

Thanks for the nice comment! Yes more automation idea videos soon.

Sweet!

That's great to hear! Paulus is such a nice guy and we hung out for hours after this. It was so much fun. He is the real deal!

Wow! Your eye for detail! It's true!

I would suggest some central location for WiFi router and home automation computer for fanning out radio signals to all parts of the house. Typically these pieces of equipment end up maybe in a basement or attic, so the spread of the signal isn't optimal for coverage. Cabling (Ethernet, video, power) isn't as important as it was before the advent of wireless technologies. Now most devices can be button battery powered, which is kind of a pain, but beats having to deal with powering stuff. Some devices are now using PoE, so you may want to think about that. Otherwise, for certain devices having an AC outlet nearby what you think you might want to automate might be a good idea.

@@indiggioman thank you. I think about installation in all rooms Aqara FP2 sensor. After that I will be able to create a lot of automation using this sensor.

That's great to hear! Yes there are some exciting devices but I can't talk about them just yet!

@@SmartHomeSolver cool thanks, sincerely hope these products will be coming to Europe as well

Hi, quick question, what do you prefer and easy to use? Home assistant or Homey Pro?

@@anilkumar1971 Home Assistant has more options with more devices, but Homey Pro definitely is WAAAAAAAAAAY easier to setup automations with their "flows." And it isn't even close.

@@TheRiehlThing42 Thank you so much! Just curious: what are the main "flows"?

@@anilkumar1971 Flows are basically how Homey Pro does automations. It is drag and drop. If Home Assistant started using them, I would probably be using Home Assistant.

Also - shared dashboards and dashboard blueprints would be amazing. Especially if there was something in there that checked whether devices exist for each category and only show tabs and panels where devices are present instead of creating everything in the blueprint when only 75% of it is applicable to your instance. Example: don't show a garage tab at all for people who don't have a garage.

Local, exactly. I don't need google knowing how many times I passed by a thermostat or other sensor to go to the bathroom each night. Because you know your data will be sold.

Honestly even just running home assistant on the pi and then doing the llm calls would be fine. I dont think any of them use data from the api for training. Groq with a Llama model would cost a couple dollars per month tops. OpenAI is like $10/$30 per million tokens. LLama 3 70b on Groq is $0.59/$0.79 per million tokens. I doubt unless you are doing lots of api calls you'd get much more than a couple million tokens per month. Hell the 7b model could be good enough and that is $0.05/$0.10 per million tokens. I've hit 900 tokens per second with that model using Groq. That is more than 1 page of text per second. lol

@@pin65371 Yeah, it's all local and you can easily run HAnon a Pi and the LLM on another computer with more power, specifics a GPU. Most have or setup a website so no API needed, everything is downloaded with an LLM. It can't tell you what the weather is going to be, it only knows what it was trained for. Even pointing to Open AI doesn't give you great current/future news or events but it can tell you pretty much anything else in the past. That and there are different forks of Lama that do more specific things. There is an LLM that learns what you tell it to by throwing files like PDF's, word documents, ECT in the folder you tell it to look in (this would be great for.a.help desk, just throw.all.their.capl tickets I'm there). I think a 16 billion parameter model may be around 20GBs, maybe less so storage isn't an issue. It's still a night and day difference in response times with a dedicated Nvidia GPU and yes, Nvidia really is way better for AI tasks, something about CUDA cores, over my head. The Chinese have been trying to replicate it for years and so far failing, possibly something with their software also. Doubling from 1 trillion to 2.trillion in one year didn't happen because the PC masterace took over ;) That's all due to.the AI stuff since ChatGPT first came out. I know they weren't the first but they got.the most attention. I also don't think a Pi is going to give you the best bang for your buck for HA anymore. You can get a thin client or something x86 for what a Pi 5, power supply, nvme adapter and drive costs. I just moved from a 10 year old Nuc, 2nd one made by Intel, first one with an.i5 in it and it ran circles around a raspberry pi 4 running HA. I migrated to a newer AMD last week, not sure about the model but less than 5 years and I can take an entire backup in 30 seconds to network storage. My full backups are just over 2GB. I've been using HA for 7 years. It's Honestly ioverkill but reboots in maybe 15 seconds. I need to do some cleanup, lots of orphan records. I've only done 3 new installs in 7 years and the 2nd and 3rd were new installs then immediately restored a full backup. It's insane how much YAML I've had to comment out because they added it natively or cake out with an integration for whatever.Just burn the ISO to the internal nvme drive with the x86 ISO.with a USB adapte then stick it back inr.. If you don't have an adapter or don't want to mess with hardware you can create a bootable Ubuntu USB drive and you can burn the ISO to the Internal drive that way.also.. Do a full restore and everything just works with zero issues only faster. Zigbee, ESPHome, all device/integrations just work. Give it the same static IP and it's like nothing has changed as far as functionality and end users having to do anything outside logging in. If anything goes wrong shut it off and turn on the one you were migrating from so easy to revert if something doesn't work out.

I do however want to see improvements around HA updates, it seems every time I open the dashboard there's an update available. I want updates to be automatic, and to only notify me if there is a failure (it would be cool to see a auto-rollback in event of failure too).

Suggestions (I did all these recently, also in a new house): Buy the HA SkyConnect USB radio to connect to the RPi, buy IKEA (ZigBee) lights, sensors and shortcut buttons (cheap and reliable), don't buy the IKEA Dirigera hub (HA will be doing that role, and so much better), get decent Wi-Fi gear (Ubiquiti, TP-Link Omada or similar) and get it working reliably. Add as many of your other devices to the Wi-Fi LAN (or by Ethernet whereever possible) as you can find HA Integrations for (worth doing, even if you can't think of a reason right now, eg: when turned on during daylight hours, my Sony TV now triggers two specific blinds to close, to prevent reflections on the screen). The more you use your setup, the more things you'll think of doing/configuring/automating/adding. My two most recent additions were a simple ZigBee 2-relay device that tells the hot water heater (1) when it's the off-peak electricity period, and (2) when there is excess solar power going out to the grid (the hot water heater boosts, to use the excess power), and an IKEA Parasoll door sensor on my mailbox flap (sends a HA notification to our phones with the text: "Mail has been delivered"). I have managed to only use the HA GUI so far (no database editing, as it looks scary).