I don’t have experience with them. I have been using linode for a few years now and love it!

A bunch of people recommend dozzle in this thread… I’ve been using Dockge. I wonder how they compare. I’ll have to check that out later.

SMLIGHT SLZB-06/M/P7

I’ve tried a few other ZigBee Coordinators and this is the only one I can really suggest. Home Assistant even has their own that used to be called Sky Connect. I was having things randomly drop off my network with Sky Connect.

Get the one that has experimental Matter-over-thread support for future-proofing. You can even get it with POE support if that’s helpful for you.

I use obsidian for my notes/wiki. I use the git plugin to backup/sync my notes. I self-host forgejo as my gut server. Works great!

Caddy is my favorite reverse-proxy. The setup is just a config file.

I apologize for the confusion.

It makes it so that the direction of the switch doesn’t matter. Flipping the switch toggles to the off or on state that it’s not currently in. I like to think of it as a three-way switch that you may already have in your house where up doesn’t necessarily mean ‘on’ because there are two switches involved. The relay in the wall is the other switch. So if you have the light on in home assistant but you flip the switch, it’ll turn the light off whether it was up or down. I hope I made more sense.

If my wifi goes out my switches function as normal too.

I love my Shelly relays. I don’t use the stock firmware though. I have them overwritten with ESPhome.

I have heard that you can have full local control with them now and that it’s not really necessary to do a custom firmware. I just like having a configuration file that tells me exactly everything that it can do. That and I have a script running that updates all my ESPhome devices automatically.

I wish, thread just isn’t there yet. I currently use Wi-Fi for most of my smart home stuff. I have a really good Wi-Fi setup though and it could support a lot of devices. I have been slowly moving to zigbee though.

I do in-wall relays so that I can use regular, off the shelf switches and it looks like nothing special is there. I like the idea of people not knowing it’s smart until I do something from my phone.

I love the examples!

The best ones for this are the ones from Best Buy. Easystore.

I installed arch last night in less than 20 minutes. The longest part was figuring out how to connect WiFi from the terminal. But I googled it and it was easy.

tar --extract --file file.tar.gz

I just want an app to backup all the photos from my phone automatically. I use NextCloud for that currently and it works well. But, it’s kinda heavy for what I want/need.

Iirc signal has something you can host for the communications of strangers.

Have a suggestion?

Amen. I appreciate my UPS for sure!

A lot of people don’t understand git. But then again, they could have listed them in their comment above 🤔

Hey, you can get lucky too!!

Can someone tell me where all the trans FOSS devs/enthusiasts hang out

IRC

Yep! It all comes down to your attack surface and how paranoid you want to be.