Holy moley!! Seriously, really appreciate all those resources and the time it must have taken to write that!! Super excited to get stuck into this so will absolutely be making my way through all of these!!

Thanks! Any trusted resource you’d recommend (text or vid) to learn more on the topic?

Cool! Good to know! Will definitely be back to this post to follow up once I make some prog!

Thanks a million, will definitely look into in and check back in with my progress. Looking forward to getting stuck in now I must say! I think it’s gonna be a fun project!

Yeah I’ve been doing some reading and have seen Docker mentioned a good bit. I think I just needed some goals to start with, I’m sure I’ll take a roundabout route to get there and all some new goals once I have those two done!

When you say “hardening my infrastructure” you mean suring up the security, yeah? Also something I need to add to the list to learn about!

Thanks, will give it a look!

Thank you both, got similar advice on the original post on going more mini pc route! Can’t say I’ve done much research on them, but will certainly take a look using the Lenovo Tiny as a bench!

Thanks so much for the reply! I think my go to on the Raspberry Pi was that there’s literally place to slot one in on the Home Assistant Yellow, but I’m certainly not married to it! Based off the other response above what I’m thinking I could instead do would be to grab a Home Assistant Green instead of a yellow to handle the Smart home piece to start with at least, and grab a mini PC for the rest. If you have any opinions on what’s decent from the Mini PC side of things, or where you’d trust to ask, I’m all ears as have never really looked into any before.

Really appreciate the detailed reply! I understand the logic in separating them from your reasoning! Yes, I definitely would want to stick a voice assistant on there at some point so good to know the raspberry pi would struggle. Is there any particular mini pc that you’d recommend for the job? I live in a small rural Irish village so either way I’m gonna have to order something in!!

Thank you so much! Really appreciate it, still learning as I’m going :)