We are moving to a new house, and I want to build a foundation in something more reliable as homeassistant and zigbee. I looked at KNX and it is ridiculously expensive (170 euros for a pir sensor is a joke). So as an alternative I'm looking at loxone, which seems to be a cheaper alternative to KNX. Do you have experience with it? How good is it? What kind of things are worth automating with loxone? They have a lot of solutions, but I'm not sure if they are all worth it. I am already sold about the lights, but what about multi room audio? Light, motion, temperature sensors?
Any experience/testimonials are welcome
This is a honest question. I have two RSS services hosted on my server, and I don't see the point. RSS is by nature distributed, and subscribing to my own server just makes the source of all news being the same. What is the advantage? What do people use it for?
What is a long time? I've been running it more than a year, and the number of times it broke and the amount of time I had to invest into its quite high. You may be lucky, or I may be unlucky, but I'm just explaining my experience
Gigabox looks like a cloud backup solution. Did you meant anything else?
No, but totalitarian governments tend to get into everything, and a popular piece of software is something they will be interested in.
That's interesting. Although I usually handle backups myself (to backblaze) and I never tested provider backup mechanism
Yes, that's true. But if I start having many servers I will also start feeling the urge to cluster them, and that will be an absolute black hole of my time 😅
Yes. In any case I will attach an external volume,which is easier to manage and relatively cheap. Thanks for pointing it out
I have an already configured VPS server in Hetzner. I'm pretty happy with it. I have it configured with yunohost (a Debian "layer" that allows you to easily install services). Now I'm planning to run a NextCloud service, but my current server is not capable to handle it with it's current capabilities. For the same price I could scale my current server or spin up a new server with the same capabilities and dedicate it to next cloud.
The disadvantages of spining up a new server, is that I have to configure another server and secure it, but the advantage is exactly on the same side: I will have a second server in case something fails or I want to "scale down" to save costs it will be easier.
Even if I just scale up the current server, I will have to add an extra disk and configure the server to use it, so I'm not sure about the advantages of each one.
It is not very hard. The problem is when they suddenly change an environment variable name or format, and you need to debug what is not working and why
Yes, you can. But will you be able to keep up with their tiring update cycle that forces you to redeploy every week?