I had this experience a few years back and just put it in the sorta janky but hacky fun box.
However I did a totally fresh reinstall on some new hardware 6 months ago and it's been absolutely rock solid since and updates have been one click without issue.
Was still a bit of a faff to set up (though tbf that was more around the VM side of things which was my perogative)
I upgrade it automatically for years and they royally fucked the upgrade only once (I had to spend an hour to bring it back to life). Otherwise I never had an issue with my set of devices.
The amount of possible integrations and customization possible with Google isn't even the same playing field as what HA can do.
I've integrated monitoring my heatpump, solar palens, speakers, Ikea and Philips lights, Todoist, calendars, Garmin and much more. All controllable via Python scripting.
Not milk it's users for every iota of personal information for one, and of course actual customization and almost infinite hackability if you are so inclined
c4mpute|2 years ago
srmarm|2 years ago
However I did a totally fresh reinstall on some new hardware 6 months ago and it's been absolutely rock solid since and updates have been one click without issue.
Was still a bit of a faff to set up (though tbf that was more around the VM side of things which was my perogative)
kweingar|2 years ago
jeroenhd|2 years ago
Things seem to break more if you pull in external software repositories (HACS) but that's to be expected.
BrandoElFollito|2 years ago
I upgrade it automatically for years and they royally fucked the upgrade only once (I had to spend an hour to bring it back to life). Otherwise I never had an issue with my set of devices.
lawn|2 years ago
I've integrated monitoring my heatpump, solar palens, speakers, Ikea and Philips lights, Todoist, calendars, Garmin and much more. All controllable via Python scripting.
isoprophlex|2 years ago