Home Assistant configuration

The key software I run is

Home Assistant
Docker-CE for all containers
nginx to provide remote access, in conjunction with Let's Encrypt via Linuxserver/SWAG
Mosquitto for the MQTT broker
MariaDB for the database
Zigbee2MQTT for communicating with my Zigbee Mesh
InfluxDB for recording time-series history
Grafana for displaying InfluxDB data
Debian13 for my primary storage and containers\vms
Debian13 for my secondary backup and container host
OPNSense for routing and firewalling

Repairing computers since 1993
Started building computers in 1995
Started working with Linux in 1997
Played around with routing and networking since 1998
Got into Windows system administration in 2004
Moved on to Enterprise consulting on storage, *nix, networking and more in 2007
Trained electronic repairs technician, enjoys building stuff and repairing stuff
No higher education, currently having fun doing certifications on whim
- N+
- VMWare VCP-DCV 5-5.5-6-6.5-7-2022
- VMware VCP-NV 2021
- VMware VCAP-DCV Deploy+Design 2023
- SUSE Linux Administrator
- ITILv3
- AWS Pracitioner
- Azure AZ900+SC900+MS900+AZ800
- HPE ASE Compute+Storage
- HPE VTP Hybrid Solutions
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- CCNA 2023
- Aruba ACSA + ACNSA

Does not want to run Home Assistant OS as I find the software limiting, as such I run in native docker
I don't trust mDNS, and I think it is a shitty protocol, as such I create DNS entries for all my network devices and use hostnames whenever possible to access services (OPNsense also creates DNS entries dynamically for all DHCP clients)
I find discovery a bad idea, if I had no intention of adding it to Home Assistant, I shouldn't be using a discovery service
If there is no value in my professional life from running a software, I see no point in running it, as such I mostly run software that I gain knowledge I can use in my worklife from (i.e Docker, ESXi, etc)

104 and counting Zigbee devices (needs updating)
- 4 Xiaomi Door and Window Sensors
- 3 Xiaomi Movement sensors
- 2 Xiaomi Double Wireless Switches
- 4 Xiaomi Single mini button
- 2 Xiaomi Magic Cube
- 1 IKEA On Off Switch
- 1 IKEA RGB E27 Bulb
- 9 IKEA E14 Bulbs
- 5 IKEA CT E14 Bulbs
- 19 IKEA CT GU10 Bulbs
- 8 IKEA CT E27 Bulbs
- 1 Gledopto RGBWW Controller
- 1 Gledopto RGBCCT Controller
- 2 Philips Hue E14 Mingion Bulbs
- 3 Philips Hue E27 Bulbs
- 1 Philips Hue Filament E27 Bulb
- 3 Philips Hue Wireless Dimmer Switches
4 ESPhome self built devices
- Garage Door opener
- Greenhouse Monitor
- Soil Moisture Sensor
- Sonoff Bridge with hack implemented
3 Tasmota OTA flashed devices
- Tumbledrier power monitor
- Greenhouse heating power monitor
- Garage rack power monitor
2 Yeelight WiFi RGB E27 Bulbs
1 Yeelight WiFi RGB Led Strip
Xiaomi Roborock S5
2x WebOS TV
Samsung Smart Exclusive Heat Pump
Broadlink RM3 Mini controlling a older Samsung Plasma, Yamaha Reciever, Toshiba Heat Pump, Sanyo Heat Pump
Production servers \ systems
- DL380 Gen9 (24 cores \ 128GB RAM \ 2x 10G \ Tesla P4)
- Mini-ITX server running Debian
- HPE Edgeline 300 running OPNSense
- Cisco 2970 as core
- Aruba 2530 POE as distribution switch
- Cheap $20 POE Cameras from Aliexpress
Lab servers \ switches
- 5x DL380 Gen8 (24 cores \ 384GB RAM \ 4x 10G)
- RX4640
- RX3600
- C3000 with BL860c, BL460c G7 and DS2000
- 2x HPE Edgeline 1000
- 2x HPE 5900AF
- 1x Procurve 1800

Actually finishing my daughters lightning lamp, started out as a Arduino project with sound detection and IR, then I discovered HA, wanted to make it smart, and here we are today, current plan is to integrate with WWLN and make it reactive to when lightning is nearby
Get my IoT greenhouse operational, started with a wifi relay board that controlled fans and relays last year, that borked, currently building v2 with ESP32, soil moisture sensors and bigger solenoid valves