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I like home assistant but I feel I'm always so behind with my own instances everything feels very outdated how I have it. But I just have no time to modernize it.
Why don't you just stay in a version that does everything you need? That's sort of the point of a point release system.
I don't want to do that because once there are new features you want, upgrading in a big bang is basically impossible because there are too many breaking changes. So it's better at least to fix small things all the time. Also on top of that security updates are very important too.
I always keep Home Assistant as up to date as possible. Home Assistant keeps improving a lot. Month to month each update goes fairly seamlessly if HA is kept up to date, but the further it falls behind the harder it is to catch back up. Recent optimisation improvements have also made the update process faster.
If you can make the time it's worth the effort. Even if you have to "start over" somewhat there is probably a lot you have learned since that you can use to improve your setup.
Yeah that's what I'm doing too. On top of that I have 3 instances, my own at home, the one at my parents house and then another one at their summer house.
I can relate, with every update I'm like "Wow this is going to optimize my setup so much" and then I just don't change anything lol
I think the beauty of home assistant is that if everything is working, why worry.
Some of the updates are great though. I'm quite new to home assistant so I'm eagerly always playing with the new stuff, but soon I'll just throw my Raspberry Pi in a dark corner and forget to update it for months at a time.
I went to try to add assistant support this weekend, my pi is not supported (64bit arch only), I very understand.
I'm running it on my Raspberry Pi 5, which is Arm 64. Perhaps try via Docker?
Right, I'm on a 3b 32-bit install.
There's definitely support for your device: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/raspberrypi
Thanks, I saw that, but I think I'm using the opportunity to upgrade to a nuc-like machine
Nice! Share what you get when you get it.
Currently leaning towards the Lenovo m710q or m910q, both under 150 at microcenter (6th Gen i5 6500t). It's overkill, but it's small. I have to put my hands on it before making the purchase though, make sure the refurb models they have the io I want
Just the other week, I asked for some advice on one of those for use as a low powered PC. Good choice.