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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • There are several competing protocol: zigbee, zwave, and the newest is matter. They just require a hub to be controlled.

    I use all zigbee smart switches, and a conbee II usb stick. I have a old laptop running homeassistant os, and it has a one click addon for conbee II. I think amazon echo also have builtin zigbee controller.

    If the power goes out, all the switch automatically connects back to the hub when the power is back. Obviously, this setup is not affected by google, amazon, even the entire internet goes down. As long as my router is functional, I can control everything using my phone, when I am at home.






  • Two of the same MAC address can’t exist in the same IP space, else the router can’t route packets to them.

    Yes, this seems to be my problem, both the host and the vm got the same IP, and I think I cannot send any traffic to either my host or vm. So my router is probably confused, as you suggested.

    Is there an issue with using Docker for this?

    I forgot to mention this, docker indeed work. However, ha requires a privileged docker running as root, which means ha essentially runs as root on the host.

    This is fine on dedicated hardware, but as my server have other infrastructure on there, running ha as root can be a security risk.