How I Use Home Assistant in 2025

Re:How I Use Home Assistant in 2025 by nicholasjarnold on Friday January 24, 2025 @12:01PM (#42815083)

Agree with your Shelly-behind-the-switch model. My one hesitation going all-in with them has been perhaps reaching an eventual state of "too much 2.4Ghz WiFi traffic on a narrow IoT-specific WiFi network", but I suppose that's easily solvable by buying another AP. Currently I'm happily running a few of them behind the wall plate in my switches (check the space in your switch box first!)...no issues after many many months of continuous operation. Didn't know about the new gen supporting Matter, that's great.

Also, I too wanted to extend to you a really big THANK YOU from a very happy member of the HASS community. I came over from OpenHAB a handful of years ago and I couldn't be happier. Please keep up the good work! Good luck with all the hardware sales and Nabu Casa stuff!

edit: clarified that I used to run OpenHAB

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Re:How I Use Home Assistant in 2025 by bmicraft on Friday January 24, 2025 @12:37PM (#42815443)

I'd just accept that 2.4GHz is forever tainted :)

In real terms though, it not that bad. I've got about 25 such devices always online and the traffic really is negligible. Most devices aren't sending anything while nothing is happening except for the periodic heartbeat like once a minute. Its not noticeable, even on my 20MHz wide network.

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Re:How I Use Home Assistant in 2025 by XorNot on Saturday January 25, 2025 @02:18AM (#42820098)

I have like 54 devices running on 3 unifi APs...it's unnoticeable (either that or my phone/laptop etc. are just using 5ghz and happy about it - either way).

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Re:How I Use Home Assistant in 2025 by thejazzman on Saturday January 25, 2025 @08:27AM (#42821516)

there are LOTS of complaints about > 50 IoT wrecking their U7 series

i'm personally avoiding wifi devices now and holding out for matter/thread variants

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