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The last update broke zigbee for a month, so forgive me if I don’t jump on this bandwagon.
The last update broke zigbee for a month, so forgive me if I don’t jump on this bandwagon.
My town doesn’t allow polymeric sand so I have to use regular masonry sand. It hasn’t affected the stability of the pavers, but pulling weeds all summer is kind of annoying.
Maybe you use plain sand now and come back and do it when it’s warm.
I suppose that’s true. Rereading my comment, it’s a bit over the top. If I pretend now I don’t know anything and start at http://home-assistant.io, it’s not that hard to scroll down, see the thing, and buy it. I don’t know exactly how I got so off-track when I tried. Probably I knew “a little too much”, as in the words “home assistant blue” in the back of my head, Googled for that and got distracted by “I need to understand why there are two boxes and one isn’t for sale anymore, so exactly what is the difference is between them?”.
Coming back to that naive journey, though, I could see how someone could end up buying Green with no wireless dongle or Yellow with no CM4 (especially since you can’t get one).
I still think that for the limited size of this ecosystem, choosing a box shouldn’t be confusing. I can now understand where it came from, though, once I realized that HA Yellow was designed around a Raspberry Pi board that became unobtainable, so they had to go with a different architecture.
I have a friend who bought a new house and wanted to do some automation with the lights. While my HA is a total DIY setup, I thought maybe I’d suggest he get one of these boxes I was vaguely aware they sell. I went to the web site and first of all couldn’t find them from home-assistant.io (I see they’re on the front page at least now, but I swear it was harder to find when I looked the other day). Then I got lost trying to understand what the actual box was… yellow, blue, some third party odroid thing? Didn’t matter, everything was out of stock anyway. Now there’s a green one. I’m not sure this is actually making it easier to get started. I’m somewhat of an expert and I gave up.
Sorry, I forgot about this thread, but I was reminded today when I saw the new bug. The issue that originally affected me was https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/103208. It broke Xbee users, so not everyone. My Zigbee integrations didn’t work after the update so I had to roll back to a backup for my first time with HA. A patch was developed, but it didn’t get integrated into any of the 2023.11.x releases, which I found kind of frustrating but I figured I’d wait it out and eventually there would be a version that works again.
Fortunately I held off on 2023.12, because according to https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/105344 a bunch of people are having problems with this release too.