“Unlimited data” Limited down to 2G speeds… 😠

Is there an Alexa device that supports Z-wave?

https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/blogs/the-smartest-blog/how-to-connect-alexa-to-a-z-wave-smart-home-hub

Wouldn’t it need an Internet connection, Wi-Fi or wired, to communicate with Amazon?

Mine just say they have Z-wave. They don’t say anything about having a MAC address like internet connected devices usually do.

I don’t have a whole lot of experience with zigbee, so take my experience with some salt, but I’m really liking the SMLIGHT SLZB-MR1. I have it setup with PoE and I’ve got it a room away from my Z-wave antenna. I especially like that it’s separate from my server that runs HAOS and Z-wave JS UI, so a server reboot or HAOS update doesn’t really affect it. I only have one zigbee device, but it’s worked flawlessly so far.

Absolutely love Valetudo!

Is this done by keeping recursion set to the default and leaving Forwarders blank?

I’d love to hear from anyone has used this, especially if you moved from Pi-hole to Technitium. I run Pi-hole in an LXC and on a Pi3b and it’s mildly annoying to make changes or updates, so clustering has piqued my curiosity.

That’s a fantastic option.

Also something used like a NUC or a little miniPC could be great as well.

https://github.com/codykociemba/NoLongerEvil-Thermostat/issues/8

I’ve been really happy with an Ambient Weather WS2000. You can integrate it into HA locally. They’re not cheap brand new, but if you don’t mind waiting you can run across great deals from Goodwill.

What does this have to do with Home Assistant?

Totally agree. Rock solid.

For your RGBW LED controller, I really like the WLED ones from GLEDOPTO.

I think both of these ways are good and valid in their own way, they both have upsides and downsides. For me, having things separated is working well. I especially like being able to reboot HAOS more frequently and as soon as it comes back up all my Z-wave devices are ready to go. Back when I ran Z-wave inside of HAOS it took a lot longer for the Z-wave network to calm down and be ready after a reboot.

valetudo.cloud/

Avoid using device IDs in automations, use entity IDs instead.

Get something small, maybe something like a Lenovo ThinkCentre mini. Put Proxmox on it and install HAOS as a VM. Then when you want to add software, add them as LXC containers on the Proxmox host. Like Z-wave, MQTT, ESPHome, zigbee, etc. I really like having things in separate containers so that way I can work on things separately. If I need to restart the HAOS VM, it’s a lot faster because my entire Z-wave network doesn’t have to restart.

Avoid adding things that require cloud access. I have to have a damned good use case before I add anything that requires Internet access.

Oh and I like this place: https://cloudfree.shop/

Had mine for a while now and it’s been rock solid. Love it.

Congratulations on the new job!

I really like this blueprint because all its features, especially getting the light to turn on a little bit before my alarm does.