I don’t have them myself but I’ve installed a hundred or so. They’re a huge pain in the ass, by far my least favorite thing to calibrate. They have to be PERFECT or the shade will slide and cause problems.
That said, I’m absolutely going to get them when I move. They’re my favorite home automation
I'm sort of thinking about going a slightly different route and getting outside rolling shutters - the kind which are controlled by a rocker switch inside - and then putting a smart switch on those. Much more expensive but then I'd get all the benefits of metal shutters and it would hopefully be less hassle for me overall.
I think they’re totally worth it but do yourself a favor and get a large level of you don’t already have one. And go overboard with the prep work. Measure twice, cut once, etc. You’ll have a hard time releveling if you mess it up the first time.
I’ve never installed the outdoor kind. I didn’t even know those existed, I’ll have to check then out!
Home Assistant running via Docker on Synology, lots of Zigbee + a few Z-Wave, no voice assistant. Hue lights do what they should without intervention (thanks to Adaptive Lights) and ~60ish automations handle most everything else. Dashboards are the last line of defense.
A 2GB Pi 4 should be more than enough to run Home Assistant. My Home Assistant runs on a Pi 4 and the system averages of about 0.9 GB of RAM usage.
You are running out of RAM because you are running a full desktop alongside Home Assistant. The Pi should be used as a Home Assistant server only. Install Home Assistant Operating System (HAOS) instead of Debian/Raspberry Pi OS, and access Home Assistant from your laptop/desktop/phone etc via browser, or with SSH via the SSH add on if you need direct access to the system.
I tried HAOS once, but didn't like the command line only interface and so didn't bother looking into it further, but maybe I'll try again 👍 as Debian plus HA uses all the 2gb.
I run it on a VM. A year ago I was tempted to try it on a pi but never got around to it so I can't answer fully. I would think though with all the voice stuff coming through the thin client would be better as it will likely have more processing power for the moments that you need it.
IMO for support and general help the raspberry pi will have more of an install base and general knowledge but the thin pc will be more powerful. With that said you have to make sure all hardware on the PC is supported by Linux whereas with the pi you know it is. Personally I run Home Assistant as a virtual machine so I can keep my collection on hardware to a management level.
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