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I’d try it

It sounds like your trying to solve two problems in this question.

1. How to access home assistant from outside your home

2. How to run home assistant on your normal network while letting it have access to your IOT network.

The first problem is usually solved by one of a couple difference ways. You could set up a vpn from your phone back to your house and access home assistant locally, you could use something like cloudflare tunnels, you could set up a reverse proxy, or you could use home assistant cloud. Some of these are paid features and each of them has various advantages and disadvantaged.

The second problem is likely best solved with vlans but unless you specifically bought a switch or router to support that feature it’s likely yours can’t. There are probably other means to bridge the access and limit it to a one way view with firewall rules but the same thing there, most standard consumer router/modem boxes are somewhat limited on how you can set your rules.

You’ve got a couple of options available to you and if you’re early enough on in the project and you’ve got the budget for it i’d look into getting your hands on a managed switch and a box you can install opnsense or pfsenseb on. Either would give you the ability to set and manage vlans, establish firewall rules to control access between them, set up a vpn and/or reverse proxy, and much more.

I found the hobby in early last year and while yes there’s still effort and issues a lot of the newer models are ready to go out of the box. I’m glad i dew a line and didn’t try to make a profit off it and kept it strictly hobby/fun, someone i know doubled down with two top line units and they spend their weekends managing etsy or manning a booth at a craft fair. That’s not to say i don’t charge a couple bucks if a friend wants me to print something but it’s usually just material cost.

As a fellow insomniac with apnea i feel your pain. Those who sleep but do it poorly can’t understand how miserable it is to be unable to sleep. I’ve cobbled together a list of things that each help slightly but when all of it is added together makes enough of a difference to tip the tide in my favor. I look at it like casting a spell with multiple ingredients, it’s still affective if i’m missing some but it’s more affective if it’s all there.

My aim is to be asleep by 10pm most nights, to active that i try to include as much of this as i can

• No caffeine after 3pm, hard stop. None after 12pm is ideal.
• Dinner between 5pm and 6pm usually, no eating after 7pm.
• Melatonin before my shower, i prefer gummie.
• A hot shower usually between 8pm and 9pm.
• Phone down by 9pm. I wear a smart watch that i use as my alarm so when i started this, to break my phone use habit, i actually charged my phone in the other room at night.
• Read between 9pm and 10pm. I have a kobo e-reader that has a warm backlighting setting and i invert the color so it’s lighter letters on a dark page. Others might have this work against them but i find this calms my mind nicely.
• A warm cup of sleepy tea, find a brand and flavor you like.
• Cold room, warm blankets. I prefer 62-64 in the winter and 65-68 in the summer with a lighter blanket
• An eye mask. This might not help others as i’ve been told i sleep with my eyes open
• Block any light in the bedroom. I use electrical tape and cover the led lights on anything in the room that has an led
• Sleep sounds. I’ve found i like either thunder storms or ocean waves. There’s a skill on the alexa app called sleep sounds and it let us combine the two.
• The right pillow for you. A few months back i pulled the trigger on a cervical and it was a wonderful decision for me.

That’s the stuff i try and make happen as often as i can. The rest of this list helps but isn’t totally necessary.

• I’ve just started taking magnesium and have reason to believed it’s helping but it’s too early to say.
• I have plantar fasciitis so i like to stretch out my legs, calfs, and feet as i jump out of the shower and i find out feels nice getting into bed after.
• I have a standing desk and an under desk treadmill and i try to put 2 to 3 miles in 3 to 4 days a week. More if i’m able but i find that much to play a positive role on my sleep.
• I’m a side sleeper and found i like to use a very large body pillow to support my upper arm and leg when i’m on my side.

I was assigned a cpap after my apnea diagnosis but it was so hard to fall asleep with it on and if it ramped up pressure in the middle of the night it would jar me awake and i couldn’t get back to sleep so i sent the machine back. I’m heavier so i know a level of my apnea is weight related which is part of my goal of exercising more. I read that if cpaps don’t work you can get a mouth piece to hold your jaw forwards and open your airway. While seeing a specialist about this he remarked how large my tonsils were and suggested i have them removed. After the operation i noticed at minimum a 20% increase in airflow to my lungs which has also greatly affected how well i sleep.

Before doing all of this i’d rank my sleep at a 30-40 out of 100. With doing all this i got it up to 50-60. Getting my tonsils out got me to 70-80. I know i’m still not getting the level of sleep most others get on a normal night and i’m still trying to find ways to bridge that gap like adding the magnesium or buying the new pillow but i know each little thing i do plays a positive role so i keep at it.

I hope some of this helps. You’re not in it alone.

The issue is either the chromebook or the fully kiosk app, and i’m thinking it’s the app. Post reboot it won’t let me play music from or to the chromebook now.

The home assistant vm has 32 cores, the chromebook i’m not sure. I installed the fully kiosk app using the google play store.

Let’s discuss the chromebook since that’s where i want the issue addresses first. It’s a chromebook with the fully kiosk app running and it displays my home assistant internal address in the web browser. Through the kiosk app it’s a destination for media playback and the sound comes out of the chromebook speakers. The vm is assigned 24gb of ram and it’s using 8 of that and it’s using less than 1% of the 32 cpus i’ve assigned to it. If you’re wondering, the hardware is an old dual cpu server with more resources than i could ever hope to use so i over fed most of the vms i’m running. I doubt it’s a hardware issue on the server side but i’m willing to try anything.

It’s my understanding that yes, that is an option but i’m in the camp that any step i make at this point will be towards being as cloudless and local as possible with services like this. I agree that i’d trust them over the others but i don’t want to have to pick between a poor user experience, a large hardware cost, or trusting SOME company.

I’ve made automation for all of my most commonly said phrases and when using those it works but that limits it to only the things i’ve already thought to key in. Not very ideal but it works well enough.

You misunderstand my statement. The way i see people making this device better is by either having thousands of dollars of gpu hardware and running their own robust local model or sending their data off to something like chat gpt. The first i have no issue with, if only i had the budget for, the second feels worse to me than alexa. I know amazon knows a lot about me, i don’t need to start feeding all my data to an additional cloud entity.

I love everything Nabu Casa is doing and even though i don’t use any of the perks it offers i still pay for their monthly service to continue supporting them.

I don’t want my comment to come off negative towards the product because my experience has less to do with the speaker itself in more to do with my expectations but i’m less than impressed with it at the moment.

I was watching the live stream and bought one the moment they said sales were live, took about a week to get in. Having never used assist within home assistant before i thought at the very least i could say “turn off the kitchen” and the software would know there was a room called kitchen and turn anything off in it. Nope.

I will eventually get around to setting up my own local llm once i get the right hardware but i don’t understand all these people “glad to drop alexa and google” just to feed their data into a public online llm. Feels worse to me in some ways.

Currently it lives in my bedroom and the speaker is a bit to tin/treb to work for our sound machine but a $10 aux speaker did well enough with that. I had to manually plug phrases i want it to do into an automation but once i did that everything worked fine. At the end of the day, though, if i’m using an additional speaker i don’t understand why i should pay $60 for this when i could get the components and diy one for less than $35.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_sign

I’ll apologise now for the tiktok link, i know how much this place hates tiktok but here is a woman who did a deep dive and found evidence that the company actually changed their logo and tried to scrub the existence of the Cornucopia from the internet to distance themselves from Bad PR.

https://www.tiktok.com/@dimelifting/video/7311071477732838687

Can’t forget midnight mass

Likely not the solution you’re looking for but a buddy and i link a folder via syncthing and anything added to one side shows up on the other.

Most of that will be budget based and long term goal oriented. Do you want a 4 bay nas with 10tb drives set up in raid 5 or do you think you’d want a two bay system with 5tb drives set up in mirror raid? Do you want to start cheap and get a second hand thinkcenter off ebay or do you want to buy a brand new NUC and put a 2tb M.2 and 16gb of ram in one slot so you can add the other 16gb later? Some nuc can take up to 64gb of ram and have two 2tb drives in them.

It does

https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/discussions/2314#discussion-5761611

According to this it’s still planned, though time will tell.

To play off what others are saying i think a mini pc and a stand alone nas may be the better route for you. It may seem counter intuitive to break it out into two devices but doing so will allow room for growth. If you buy a creeper bare bones mini pc and put more of your budget towards a nas and storage you could expand the mini pc without messing with your nas. You could keep the pi in the mix for a backup if your main pc is down or offload some services to it to balance performance.

https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard

It lacks predictive text but it’s in development.