Home Assistant Yellow

[...] (No zwave experience) Generally I am happy with Zigbee, it's super annoying to pair, but for battery powered devices it's unbeatable. I went from a some AliExpress USB Stick to a ConBee2 to the Home Assistant Yellow. [...] For general hardware advice: Overall the Home Assistant Yellow was the best choice overall, I would anyone who doesn't want to spend a ton of time on HA hosting to just buy it. [...] Conbee 2 ist still my current stick because I am experimenting with the Matter/Thread Support on the Home Assistant Yellow, sadly without success though. [...] (List of Devices ) Tasmota is an amazing piece of software that runs on your smart device for example a power plug. [...]

[...] I have a zigbee lightswitch so I can turn the light off from bed, and sure I could open an app to do that, but it's so much better to get a zigbee button and stick it to the wall above my head and program it to control the lightswitch. [...] I have my zigbee hub (Home Assistant Yellow) on a battery backup, so all the zigbee devices with a battery keep functioning even when the power is out (like my automatic cat feeders)

I upgraded my Home Assistant Yellow from a CM4 to a CM5[1], and latency for voice commands was great, going from about 3-4 seconds to 1-2 seconds. Completely local, still. [1]

[...] It's in a middle ground between Pi 4 (which is cheaper and can idle a tiny bit little lower) and N100 (which is nominally more expensive—varies greatly by region, but is faster with better IO and more compatibility, though integrating with GPIO-related stuff is more annoying). The CM5 makes more sense for a lot of use-case specific purchases though, like I upgraded my Home Assistant Yellow from CM4 to CM5 and the performance difference is noticeable. Other manufacturers make much faster (and more efficient, though similarly-priced, accounting for performance) SBCs now, but the support side (e.g. [...]

[...] In the last couple months I got a Home Assistant Yellow which has a built-in Zigbee radio, so my world was opened to so many local-only devices. [...]

[...] With each iteration and replacement I’m discovering there’s more out there. For example instead of using a random computer or pi, installing a home assistant yellow presents to a future home owner as more of an appliance. [...]

I've had great results with their buttons/light switches and Home Assistant Yellow, and the SkyConnect prior to that, for what its worth. I especially like the PoE version of Home Assistant Yellow - can power the entire server from its ethernet port.

[...] I bought a HomeAssistant Yellow box which was very easy and got delivered to me speedily from within Europe. [...]

[...] This is not the most popular route and therefore also less supported my advice: - use a raspberry-pi with Home Assistant OS or buy one of their self made raspberry-pi alternatives Home Assistant Yellow etc. [...]

I purchased a home assistant yellow and my experience was anything but “ready to use”. You have to build the damn thing, which isn’t hard per se since it’s ultimately only 3 actual components, but it still took me some time and felt complicated since it involves attaching a heat sink with thermal compound on a CPU. And then the software install process isn’t totally amazing either since it involves flashing a USB stick, but also needing to choose a few very non-obvious options. [...]

I bought a Home Assistant Yellow a little over a week ago after playing with it on my NAS and realizing the limits of that setup and that I wound need a bit more if I wanted to use Matter and Dirigera from IKEA.

I've been using a Home Assistant Yellow, which is running on a Raspberry Pi CM4. Bit more specialized than the Green I think.