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416 points stacktrust | 1 comments | 12 Oct 23 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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marcinzm ◴[12 Oct 23 17:28 UTC] No.37860179[source]▶
>The hell? But people seem to think that Home Assistant is good. (Something about subscription fees and invasive apps and forced obsolescence?) So you search for “how to get a Home Assistant”. This reveals a recursive landscape of terror:

Google "how to install home assistant" which leads to:

>https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/

>If you are unsure of what to choose, follow the Raspberry Pi guide to install Home Assistant Operating System.

This leads to:

>https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/raspberrypi

This has a nice visual guide that requires you to know how to buy a raspberry pi, how to plug in a raspberry p, how to plug in an sd card (twice), and how to navigate to a url.

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gruez ◴[12 Oct 23 17:37 UTC] No.37860314[source]▶
>This has a nice visual guide that requires you to know how to buy a raspberry pi, how to plug in a raspberry p, how to plug in an sd card (twice), and how to navigate to a url.

What about upkeep? Sure, installing PopOS is pretty easy if you follow the tutorial, but what happens if you try to install Steam one day and it breaks your desktop environment? Or maybe your sd card accumulates too much writes and corrupts your OS, and you have to diagnose the root cause?

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1. dingnuts ◴[12 Oct 23 18:13 UTC] No.37860784[source]▶
I mean, HomeAssistantOS has a GUI in the browser with an upgrade button that appears when there's a new release (which is frequent -- actually my biggest complaint about HA is how fast they move and that I can't configure HA to just install the updates as they arrive, and I have to actually click the button. Horror.)

It performs a backup whenever you perform a release, so if the SD card gets corrupted.. just follow the install instructions a second time and upload the last backup?

That's it for the upkeep, other than dealing with 3rd party APIs that change and make things break, but that's not HomeAssistant's fault.