Sorry to hear about your SSD. I've been burned by SSD issues in the past too. Some years ago, I setup two vSphere/ESXi servers to run my VMs (which contain many VMs including HomeSeer and more recently Home Assistant which I've been experimenting with). I can easily migrate or restore VMs to one of two hosts in case of problems. Yeah, lots of trouble having to setup a VM environment, but I was having fun with it back then, and now that things are setup, it's easy to create and maintain VMs. Anyway, I've been migrating to almost all HomeKit devices over the last few years. Very thought of using Home Assitant's HomeKit Controller, but I'm reluctant to have HA as a single point of failure. If I add a device directly to HomeKit, then if an Apple TV goes down, another Apple TV will automatically take over. But of course, automations aren't as powerful in HomeKit, but mostly good enough (old 80/20 rule applies to HomeKit automations).
Very nice! I don't do things by halves, so within days of deciding to go the Home Assistant route, I had all my native HomeKit devices moved into HA lol It's all good as long as things are working, so situations like this leave my highly motivated to improve my backup and redundancy situation... Matter stuff is much better thankfully, as that all continued to work just fine within Apple Home while HA was dead.
@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIs Yes, Matter is nice since it ought to work directly with HomeKit and HA. All my lights are also Lutron Caseta or Philips Hue, and it's great that they can work directly with HomeKit and HA, so no need for HomeKit Controller.
🤯, wow 2 month old SSD failing 🤪. Buy 3 SSD's, run two in raid 1 and have a spare for when the inevitable happens. BTW. I've been running running docker with several containers (now upto 😂15) for 4 years. I was using an SSD, but moved to a usb stick (crazy i know). However other than a psu issue and my mishaps with pihole, i've never had an issue. Although because of this I now have a second pi for complete redundancy. Good luck
Thanks for the tips! Technically, the SSD is probably much older as the machine is second hand. My buddy bought it off ebay and set it up nicely under proxmox for me as a Wedding present, so yesterday I just had to learn how to do it myself lol
Sorry to hear about your SSD. I've been burned by SSD issues in the past too. Some years ago, I setup two vSphere/ESXi servers to run my VMs (which contain many VMs including HomeSeer and more recently Home Assistant which I've been experimenting with). I can easily migrate or restore VMs to one of two hosts in case of problems. Yeah, lots of trouble having to setup a VM environment, but I was having fun with it back then, and now that things are setup, it's easy to create and maintain VMs.
Anyway, I've been migrating to almost all HomeKit devices over the last few years. Very thought of using Home Assitant's HomeKit Controller, but I'm reluctant to have HA as a single point of failure. If I add a device directly to HomeKit, then if an Apple TV goes down, another Apple TV will automatically take over. But of course, automations aren't as powerful in HomeKit, but mostly good enough (old 80/20 rule applies to HomeKit automations).
Very nice! I don't do things by halves, so within days of deciding to go the Home Assistant route, I had all my native HomeKit devices moved into HA lol
It's all good as long as things are working, so situations like this leave my highly motivated to improve my backup and redundancy situation...
Matter stuff is much better thankfully, as that all continued to work just fine within Apple Home while HA was dead.
@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIs Yes, Matter is nice since it ought to work directly with HomeKit and HA. All my lights are also Lutron Caseta or Philips Hue, and it's great that they can work directly with HomeKit and HA, so no need for HomeKit Controller.
🤯, wow 2 month old SSD failing 🤪.
Buy 3 SSD's, run two in raid 1 and have a spare for when the inevitable happens.
BTW. I've been running running docker with several containers (now upto 😂15) for 4 years. I was using an SSD, but moved to a usb stick (crazy i know). However other than a psu issue and my mishaps with pihole, i've never had an issue. Although because of this I now have a second pi for complete redundancy.
Good luck
Thanks for the tips!
Technically, the SSD is probably much older as the machine is second hand. My buddy bought it off ebay and set it up nicely under proxmox for me as a Wedding present, so yesterday I just had to learn how to do it myself lol