I have been running HA on a Pi3b for a few years. It’s been a bit flakey the last few months so I’m looking to upgrade to a Pi5. After the replacement I expect to add more items and maybe phase out the Insteon for more Z-Wave.

I plan to “start from scratch”. I use an Insteon hub for most switches and 2 garage doors, some Z-Wave switches, a few generic lamp plugs, 2 cheap Matter bulbs, and Alexa for my wife. Maybe 20 devices or so. The only automations are 2 sunset items and one that links a Z-Wave switch to a insteon switchlink. What will be my major pain points for rebuilding?

Or is there a straightforward method to migrate directly?

What kind of problem will this be for my Nabu Casa subscription? Alexa integration?

Or do I try to build first, then decomm the old one? Won’t that cause a conflict?

  • pafEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I don’t know how cheap pi5 are where you are but I would advise to have a look at one of those small pc with n100 or n150 processor. They are really low powered (close to pi5) and you will get a more powerful device. They cost around 150€ (even 100 on sale).

    • Richard Wonka@mas.to
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      6 months ago

      @paf can recommend.
      I have a 4 core n100 with 16G RAM, four network ports and a big SSD in a small, fanless enclosure for ~250€ from Aliexpress
      It’s a fantastic deal. Runs Proxmox with plenty of VMs and containers without a hitch, including a nextcloud with a USB RAID enclosure at very reasonable power.

    • besmtt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      That’s a fantastic option.

      Also something used like a NUC or a little miniPC could be great as well.