I guess I could reflash them all with FLOSS firmware - but that seems like a bit too much effort at this point. The Pi has the usernames and passwords for my various gadgets and talks to them via their official APIs. For switching lights on and off, getting the bed warm, and checking the air quality, it's fast enough.Īt the moment, I'm using sloppy security. But, thankfully, these are things you only do rarely. I put it in battery jail - I care more about control than reports. The app is a bit of a power hog - because it is continually polling for updated data about your home. I was able to add a couple of buttons to my phone to do common tasks like switch off lights, and turn on electric blankets. The phone UI is great! It interfaces directly with Android 13's quick actions. Of course, that does mean the user interface is a lot!Īs long as you're happy to fiddle around making everything just right, then the UI isn't too bad. But HA was able to interact with nearly everything. Integration was pretty easy - assuming you trust the system with your username and passwords. It quickly detected all my smarthome gadgets (I have far too many). Even something like viewing sensor history slows to a crawl. Not in the interface itself, which is delightfully snappy, but it is slow on any form of add-on installation, upgrade, or reboot. And, when I came back, it worked!īut, that slowness becomes a recurrent theme. I left it for a few hours and did something more interesting. I could see that the Pi was responding to pings, but the web interface wasn't coming up. Sweet!įrom there it was just a case of following the installation steps. Raspberry Pi 4 (Raspberry Pi 3 is ok too, if you have one laying around).īut, if you go to the latest releases page and then click "show all assets", you'll be rewarded with a file called haos_rpi2-9.5.img.xz - that's Home Assistant OS for the Raspberry Pi 2. The official Home Assistant installation guide for the Pi says that you can use a: But it works and - crucially - is still supported by Home Assistant OS. It's old, outdated, slow, with limited RAM, and has a bunch of much-abused GPIO pins. So I dug through my scrapheap of old tech and resurrected an ancient Pi2. As much as I'd love a 4B, they seem permanently sold out. They say that The Best Camera Is The One That's With You - the same is true of Raspberries Pi.
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