About HomeAssistantHQ
Local Smart Home Automation, ESPHome & Mesh Telemetry.
What this site covers
HomeAssistantHQ covers Home Assistant for people who want their smart home to keep working without a cloud account. The focus is the decisions that are expensive to reverse later: which install method you commit to, which box it runs on, and which low-power radio mesh your devices bond to. Those three choices outlive every dashboard you will ever redesign.
The recurring theme is that the documentation usually already answers the question, and the useful work is joining the answers up: the install type constrains which radios you can run, the radio constrains where the hardware can sit, and the hardware constrains how long the database survives.
- Install methods: Home Assistant OS versus Container, and what the Supervisor changes
- Hub hardware: Green, Yellow, Raspberry Pi, mini PC and NAS virtual machines
- Radios and protocols: Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread and Matter compared
- Troubleshooting: interference, mesh routing and devices that go unavailable
- ESPHome sensors: power budgets and battery sizing for custom nodes
10 articles are published so far. New ones are announced on the RSS feed.
How these articles are produced
Articles here are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, research papers and preprints, and measurements published by whoever took them. Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those cited sources before anything is published.
No article on this site is based on first-hand testing in a private lab, and nothing here should be read as a measurement report of its own. Where a number appears, it comes from a source that is named, so you can check the original instead of taking this site's word for it.
Everything is published under a single editorial byline. That byline is a publishing identity for the site, not a claim about a named individual, and it does not carry professional credentials.
Corrections
Corrections are welcome. If something here is wrong, out of date, or attributed to the wrong source, email [email protected] with the page address and what it should say. Substantive corrections are made in the article itself rather than quietly dropped.
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