Only use this for test purpose. If you really like Synology DSM and want to use it private or for business you should buy a Synology NAS and pay for the hardware and software. So, I’m still having my Xpenology setup running. This is for testing purpose only before updating…
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Run Synology DSM as a VM on VMWare ESXi with your own hardware
Only use this for test purpose. If you really like Synology DSM and want to use it private or for business you should buy a Synology NAS and pay for the hardware and software. My reasons to test the Synology DSM 7.x on my own hardware was because of the…
Updating Home Assistant without anything breaking
One of my primary and very important goals working with Home Assistant is that I want to be able to update Home Assistant at any time without anything breaking in my setup, for example integrations, automations, scripts etc. I simply don’t want to have to do rework after an update,…
Good add-ons
After the installation of Home Assistant, the next step was to setup the different integrations to the smart home products we have. There is two ways of setting up integrations: Setup through the user interface (preferable)This is the best way to secure your installation when upgrading along the way.The team…
Choice of hardware
An important thing when using Home Assistant is to select what hardware it should run on. A lot of people is running it on a Raspberry Pi, while others had chosen other alternative as a laptop, a mini computer, like an Intel NUC, or on their own server as a…