My Basic Configuration

My Setup

After going back and forth between solutions, I settled on running Home Assistant in a Virtual Machine on an Unraid host.

Hardware

• Custom Server rack mount system with 24TB storage and 32GB Ram
• ZWave Z-Stick Gen 5 attached to one of the server USB ports.
• Various Sonoff and Zwave devices, as well as a few Wemos D1 Mini boards and NodeMCU1.0 boards.
• Unifi Dream Machine Pro with a single 4TB Drive to capture all Protect footage.
• Unifi PoE 8 Port Switch
• Unifi 24-Port Switch
• Unifi 4 Port 10G switch
• Unifi Access Point (basic)

Software

Everything is hosted by the Unraid server.

• Home Assistant 2022.11.4 (as of 12/1/22) I typically update as soon as there's a new version, so it's safe to say it's the latest version.
• Supervisor 2022.11.2
• Operating System 9.3
• Front End - always latest