Hi. I’m currently rebuilding my setup from scratch, moving away from my old Pi. What’s best practice these days? How would you do it? What cards are the best for the dashboard? How would you do presence detection (getting home), mqtt via ha, or stand alone?

Looking for good ideas, and possibly things to avoid.

TIA.

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 day ago

    For presence detection, we feed our phone’s GPS into HA (I use the minimal version of the app, so a separate app does the GPS feed direct to my HA without Google / Apple datacenters)

    I have a large “Almost Home” zone centered around our home, but with a much larger radius - this allows for time delays / bad signal, so that the house can turn on lights, etc. before we arrive.

    Then I use ping to detect that we really are at home.