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Home Assistant 2023.6 now supports network attached storage (www.home-assistant.io)

submitted 2 years ago by gadgetboy@lemmy.ml to c/homeautomation@lemmy.ml

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If you're running Home Assistant on an SBC other storage constrained device, you can now use available storage elsewhere on your network. Game changer, at least for me. Lots of other updates in this release, too.

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[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm curious, what would you use the network storage for? My setup isn't very media focused, so perhaps that's why I'm struggling.

[–] gadgetboy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I plan to use it to write my nightly backups to my local file server, but yeah, it's probably more for media-focused setups.

[–] tuxed@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Best usecase I can think of currently is for camera storage through frigate or for other HA addons

[–] equalice3489@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

I don’t run HA on an SBC anymore, but network-based storage is a nice feature!

[–] beepaboopa@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm new to Home Assistant, but what would the benefits of NAS integration be?

Like as a media source? Or to show capacity, utilization, and services it could be running?

I get home control and automation, but what's to control/automate from the dashboard for your NAS?

I'm sure I'm just missing the use case.

[–] gadgetboy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

There are many add-ons for Home Assistant that do better with more storage. Grafana is a great example. You can expose your HA entities to Grafana and understand trends over time, but you'll need the storage to support it.

Ditto for something like MotionEye that stores your security video.