New HA instance
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I just wanted to post how impressed I am with both HA and MSR. I really don't see that Ezlo have a chance in hell.
I noticed that my Virtual HA instance was killing my machine's performance, so decided that my project for the weekend would be a stand alone Raspberry Pi instance. Less than an hour to install, restore and configure both HA and MSR and it all just works. Thanks to everyone that contributes to these fabulous projects. Especially our own @toggledbits for the amazing work that is the new Reactor!
C
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Welcome to the HA community. I stuck around with Vera for about 8 years, and kept waiting for Ezlo to live up to it's promises, as support for Vera dwindled and fell behind. Last September I took the jump to HA, ported all of my Vera native Reactor rules to MSR, and haven't looked back. I'm amazed on how much more I'm able to do with Home Assistant, and the stability improvements are night and day.
I'm running my HA on a stand alone RPi4 as well. I run MSR on my home NAS server. A word or two of advice I would give you, is make sure you run it on a SSD and not the microSD slot. Faster performance and much better reliability. And of course, run backups of your HA configuration (Google cloud is a good solution for this).
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I'm running MSR / OpenLUUP on an old Intel NUC with Debian Buster. The HA is now on a Raspberry Pi 3+ because it was simpler than wiring up a 4. All my my Pis are powered by POE splitters, which is nice
Totally get the concern about the SD cards, but in honesty I have about 6 Pis running Volumio, Kodi and Minidnla and so far touch wood no issues to report. All on SD....
Performance of HA is not a concern so far. I have a NAS (1) that will store my backups nicely.
C
(1)Bloody thing has died tonight. I'm shopping ATM! -
Also I jumped Vera ship over a year ago and made the full transition to HA with MSR. My HA is running as HAos on an old NUC-like x86 which I got for 80€. It has full gigabit LAN, plenty of USB2.0 for the radios (UZB1 for Z-Wave and Conbee2 for Zigbee) on extensions away from the unit for better performance and of course a SSD with 120GB. Plenty of space and performance for HA with Addons, at least for me. My only headache is the MSR which is currently running as an addon in HA but it is not maintaned anymore from the original publisher... So I am now considering to get a second machine just to run MSR, either bare-metal or as a docker.
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Just run everything under docker, including ha, and a single nuc is more than enough. USB are easily mapped via docker.