The move to MORE POWER!!!!!

It's been a few years since I started this home automation journey. When I switched to HA the journey started over again. I ran the Pi4 for about a year and half. In the last year I found that I wanted something more. I mean I am a guy we always want more. So I did research and found that there are many ways to run and instal HA. I watched DrZzzs and he talked about Proxmox. He runs his on a Nuc. 

I tried running HA on a bare metal Linux install. It became apparent that I am not that smart. I didn't understand the methods and didn't like all that command line stuff. I went to an office building having a sale and found they were selling their old computers. I bought this:

8gs of Ram and an 250 gig SSD. It is way overkill for what HA needs but expansion for later is what I was looking for. I decided to go the route that doc went with Proxmox and run HA in a virtual machine. Using : Whizkerz proxmox install. I got it running in like 30 minutes. I had to connect a monitor to it in the beginning to get it started but after all the setup Proxmox gives you a address to open it up.

I was surprised how well it worked. I brought in a snapshot from google drive. If you are not using this you should it's easy. Especially when you screw stuff up like I do ALOT. 

https://github.com/sabeechen/hassio-google-drive-backup

and here is a video by the Doc on how to do it.

Google drive HA backup

Boom with in a few minutes I was up and running. A few things didn't work. For instance I use a  Conbee2, and I use Wyze sense for some of my sensors. 

You have to add them as hardware in your setup:

go to hardware and you get this screen:

click add and you get a drop down and select usb device. Now this is where it was sketchy for me. I didn't know what device to add so I unplugged the device to remove it from the list and plugged it back in. That's how i figured it out. I did that for the conbee and the wyze sense.

I restarted HA and boom there they were. You just have to pass through the device so Proxmox can use it.

I have been using HA in a VM in Proxmox for about 6 months now. I will never go back. It is something I wish I did sooner. 

Let me know if you are running HA in Promox and what you think. I love it!!