Everything @[email protected] said and because backups to Home Assistant OS also include addons, which is just very convenient.
My Proxmox setup has 3 VMs:
Also, if you ever plan to switch from a virtualized environment to bare metal servers, this layout makes switching over dead easy.
I would recommend running Home Assistant OS in a VM instead of using the docker container.
I have a cheap homekit thermostat that I use with home assistant. Being able to turn it off for movies or during peak energy hours is nice. What was most helpful, however, was putting temperature and humidity sensors in every room, so that I could move around heat generating stuff to balance the temps throughout my apartment. I moved my server and gaming pc tower out of my home office. The temperature spread went from 8 deg F to 2 deg F.
Do you have a repo with your NixOS config for your NAS? TrueNAS and Home Assistant are the last non-NixOS VMs I’m running haha
it looks like you already have a node 804 case and the ability to build a computer, so I would avoid it unless you are looking for used enterprise gear and are okay with the tradeoffs that come with it.
years ago, I got a USB switching device from them to switch keyboard and mouse between two computers. That device was not built to USB spec and fried the PCB on my fancy mechanical keyboard.
last year, I bought their fancy 300W desktop USB-C charger to make a laptop charging station at home. Within 8 months, the device gave off an awful smell and 2 of the ports died. UGreen would not replace the charger. These are apparently a common problem with them:
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1577968-ugreen-300w-port-c3-dead/#comment-16479321
Years ago, I had a Synology NAS, and used their recommended proprietary software RAID. The power supply eventually died and took the motherboard with it. Replacement parts were not available, and there was no warranty coverage. This was before I knew about good backup practices, so my options were to buy another overpriced, non-repairable Synology NAS appliance, or forfeit my data. I considered the data a loss, built a TrueNAS machine, and never looked back.
Your experience with a proprietary NAS appliance may not be exactly the same, and they may be better these days, but having proprietary software inherently means that you cannot be sure that the software choices they make are best practice and for your benefit, or if they are designed to lock you in or increase profits in some other way.
As others have said, OpenMediaVault is a decent software alternative to TrueNAS.
No matter what you decide to go with, make sure you are following proper 3-2-1 backup protocols for any data you care about. restic to backblaze b2 seems to be the best offsite backup system currently.
I’m almost a year in to a job where I was given this task with no admin access on my local windows machine, with a team that had never used an IDE or git before, and with only Google Drive as my allowed cloud tool. When I got here everything was just a bunch of Jupyter notebooks that would get run in Google Collab that were stored haphazardly over a shared Google Drive.
It’s been a slog, but Python for Windows, VSCode, Git for Windows, and Poetry can all be installed without admin access, and we got limited access to Azure DevOps. I’ve taught my team how to use powershell, git, VSCode, and Poetry, and taught them about testing and documentation (this is a slowwww process). We finally got a desktop computer with admin access this week that we can RDP into (that I requested basically right when I started), so we can run scheduled tasks on Windows and hack together some kind of a CI/CD system. We started a wiki on Azure, have most of our stuff documented and in a well organized monorepo, and track our work in boards now.
Now that other teams are starting to see how we’re doing things, they want in, too. Thank god these people are wonderful and excited to learn because otherwise this would be very frustrating.
Yay for DBML! I’m so excited to stop using dbdiagram haha