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Apocrathia's Home Assistant Configuration Files
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# Apocrathia's Home Assistant Configuration Files



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![My Home Assistant Default View](images/default_view.png)



## Architecture



The production instance of Home Assistant is running via the

[Home Assistant Operating System](https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system)

on an old MacBook Pro, with a remote instance

running on another old MacBook Pro which has multiple USB radios connected

(Currently [Zigbee](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha/),

[Z-Wave](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zwave_js/), and an

RTL-SDR dongle for [433mhz devices](https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433)).



This is done for multiple reasons:



- Allow HA to communicate directly with wireless devices without the need for an external hub.

- Prevent having to pass USB devices through to virtual machines.

- Enable VMware to migrate the main HA VM across hosts within the cluster based upon load.

- Place radios in a more central location with better reception.



### Update 20230518



This is pending a refresh. The following tasks are planned:



- Migrate back to a VM. (However, I have converted all of my VMware hosts to Proxmox.)

- Migrate radios to strategically placed Raspberry Pi's. (Host management is the issue there.)



![My Home Assistant Architecture](images/conceptual_architecture.png)



Instances are linked together using

[Lukas Hetzenecker's home-assistant-remote custom_component](https://github.com/lukas-hetzenecker/home-assistant-remote),

which allows for all configuration to be completed within Home Assistant,

without the need to worry about using USB/IP or socat to push the devices over the network.

I've looked into using MQTT discovery, but the issue is advertisement intervals.

Devices show up instantly with the homeassistant-remote component, even after restarts.



## General Information



This configuration controls a couple of significant features in my smart home.



- Alarm Clock using my bedroom lights and TV

- Turning on/off lights at sunset/sunrise

- Arming the alarm system when nobody is home

- Security lighting when motion is detected at my front door



**Note: Private information is stored in secrets.yaml (not uploaded)**



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