My Asustor (Asus NAS) came with Home Assistant as an available and free add on (as well as many other add-onable apps). Works fine though lacks certain HA refinements.
I believe other NAS manufactures have the same feature.
Mike M.
Hi,
If you run Home Assistant in a Docker like me, you can also add a docker with Multi System Reactor (Reactor - Multi-Hub Automation) it can link to a number of Home Automation systems including HE and HA. It has a very powerful rule building engine for any kind of automation flows using any of the linked systems. I am also finding it very useful in migrating from my old system to HE. For each device I move, a quick update on the rules using it gets me back in business.
I am now getting into HA because of all the integrations it supports. Basically anything z-wave sits on HE, the rest on HA and Reactor is the glue.
Cheers Rene
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I am also a fan of MSR. … and IOBroker…
MSR is good if you like that style of rule building (I don't - I MUCH prefer node-red's graphical style).
More options are a good thing in any case.
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Yep. totally bringing by old thread back from the dead! This is the thread I was thinking of when I made This Post this morning. So my thought is using the Beelink with the windows installation you linked to above. I'm I headed down the right road there?
Said to be possible. I run mine on a RPi 4 so I have no personal experience. But there are lots of YouTube walk throughs and the official instructions for such an installation are here. The link I previously provided is not an offical means of installation.
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That's the correct link. I have my HA on a mini pc and also one on a Pi. Installing HA is super easy. On the other hand, Getting everything you want is very time consuming.
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That’s sort of the way life is.
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All I want is everything I've ever seen in the movies. 
(Stolen, apologies.)
My take on HA is that it is not too difficult to set up, but is annoying (UI mostly feels non-intuitive to me) to configure and use, and just try to make a button added to HA work in HE. (At the last last I tried many months back it was a PITA.) On the plus side it supports a gazillion devices, including ones like Aqara that can be troublesome for some on HE.
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Well, I had it working for some time under Docker on my old NUC, and wasn't really using it. When I recently got interested in looking at it again, HA wanted updating, then it told me Debian wanted updating and finally it was complaining about Docker no longer being quite right. At this point the whole lot went in the bin. I don't want to spend the rest of my life slaving over Linux.
Then I noticed the Home Assistant "Green" was a very reasonable price so I am waiting for that to arrive. Hopefully being mainstream all the OS maintenance instructions will "just work" each time and not lead to hours of research on a list of errors.
I have HA in docker. It is quite easy to setup and manage. The underlying OS is ubuntu. That allow me to install other docker images with space and cpu usage to spare. If I need to upgrade, I just overwrite with a newer docker image. It is literally a 2 clicks thing, no sweat.
I'll be honest. I really don't know how much I'll use HA. Right now, the only thing I can think of immediately off the top of my head is for the LitterRobot integration. I assume, just like Hubitat, once I get into it I'll start finding more uses, I hadn't thought of. I expect HE will remain my primary system and just keep HA around for the odd ball things that I can't connect to HE but can to HA and being them over.
When I was on Smart Things, I NEVER would have dreamed of doing even half of what I'm doing with HE (and even that I don't think is all that much). Most of my ideas lately aren't so much WHAT I can automate, but HOW to do it. still trying to figure out how to do our bedroom. I have an electrician coming over today to look at some switch and dimmer swaps (I know my limits; these are beyond what I am comfortable with).
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