We built a house 7 years ago and it’s insulated and has double glazing. I’ve installed Home Assistant with temp sensors in the bed rooms and seeing 70%+ humidity levels. Temperature is always above 16c

We ventilate it, but still it’s 70% in the bedrooms. WHO recommends 40-60%, so we’re a bit worried.

Living room is around 55% during the day when we have the heat pump set at 21c.

As it’s pretty humid outside I think it’s almost impossible to get it lower, but are there any other tips? I don’t want to run dehumidifiers. Would an HRV like system help?

  • sylverstream@lemmy.nzOP
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    1 year ago

    With HomeAssistant, as I understand it, it needs the full Pi? I have a bunch of services running on my RPi 4 and so when I’ve looked at HomeAssistant I haven’t been able to install this without touching the other stuff on there. I think they have a docker container version but it has a lot less features.

    I’m running it dockerized as well as I’m using it for other stuff as well, like PiHole, media server, etc. No problems at all.

    Some features are missing, like editing config files in the browser. Major gap is that add-ons are not supported. Add-ons are essentially 3rd party apps, like DuckDNS, Frigate or MQTT. It’s mostly annoying because the documentation assumes you run the HASS version. But it’s no big deal, you can set up those apps yourself. I’m running Frigate and MQTT dockerized and connected to HA without issues.

    For docker resources, check out https://www.linuxserver.io/. I used to install apps like NZBGet, Radarr, etc. all directly, which was very annoying as each app uses a different install script. With the docker compose files from linuxserver it was a breeze. I only run PiHole directly, as I saw some issues with the Docker version, the rest is all dockerized.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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      1 year ago

      Ah thanks! I think I decided not to continue when I saw it didn’t support add-ons as I thought that would make it pointless, but it sounds like you can run them in their own docker container and connect them. I’ve used linuxserver.io docker containers before. Thanks for the tips!

      • Lemmyin@lemmy.nz
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        1 year ago

        Hey hey. Yeah I’ve been toying with the idea of going to a dockerised setup for HA. I run it as a VM on one of my servers and that’s been rock solid along with add ons and the like.

        My moto with this whole HA thing was to always do it as cheaply as I can. That has meant a fair amount of building circuits and such myself which is quite a bit of fun.

        Also check out ESPHome. It’s great and integrates into HA very well.

        • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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          1 year ago

          Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll take a look!

          I don’t think I would know where to start with “building circuits”…

          • Lemmyin@lemmy.nz
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            1 year ago

            Heh it’s great fun and there are tons of guides. It’s just hooking up wires mostly :). I would call it building circuits I guess haha.

          • sylverstream@lemmy.nzOP
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            1 year ago

            If you want some very specific stuff like height sensors for standing desks (something I still need) you will have to go the self build route. Also to make my dumb alarm smart I have to do some soldering apparently.

            That is my next rabbit hole I guess :)

        • TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz
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          1 year ago

          Yeah I run HA as a docker container on unRaid, alongside ESPhome. It works fine - have never had a situation where I wished I was running the OS/VM version of it instead.

          TBH though, I kinda hate HA; its really kludgy for anything that I’ve wanted to do, and a lot of the presence based stuff seems super flakey. I’m constantly getting notifications about Frigate events when it knows im in my home area & they’re supposed to be silenced.