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Yesterday only I finally uninstalled Home assistant after 5 months because

- SD card was getting corrupt with time

- After a power cut if HA comes online before your internet then you got a problem and have to manually restart it.

- System update frequently broke the installation

- All my use case was easily migrated to node-red and I end up using it more.

So, I formatted the pi and installed ubuntu and than started a docker container for node-red and motioneye.

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That's not going to solve the SD card corruption issue. That's not specific to Home Assistant, it's just a fact of life with SD cards. You'd be much better off using an SSD via USB.

I too suspect it's not the HA that's causing the corruption but the workload. Let's see how the new experiment goes.

There's an issue with the recommended "default" setup of Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi, where it will set up a database for recording events. But these ends up being a ton of writes to the SD card over time. If anyone else is using Home Assistant on a Pi, I highly recommend moving your database files to an external USB HDD, or connecting it to a database over the network on another machine. That should make the SD card issue vanish.

From what I know there's no way to actually disable the default DB. Even with external DB it's only a replica of default DB not a replacement.

My HA install was on a Synology and in Docker, with a UPS so power outages weren’t a things. However the lack of WAN occurred a few times. It didn’t ever cause trouble, no matter what order it started up. What was the issue it caused for you?

The docker Synology setup is very good in my experience. When an update is available for HA you can just clear the container and start it again, provided you have correctly mounted the volumes.

I even got my Zigbee USB Stick working, you just gotta start the container once via the terminal on the synology and then I can clear it later to update it etc.

I don't know the exact problem but have have noticed that whenever router(with dhcp) starts after the home assistant. HA doesn't get's an IP and thus it's not accessible ever after waiting for 5-10min. Also, that it not always the case sometimes it works(and I don't know how).

Oh that makes more sense. It sounds like you have moved away from it but a static IP on the device might help that.

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