… For a starter smart home setup with limited devices, the Pi is still a good choice. If you are adding over 10 Zigbee devices and constantly troubleshooting their connectivity, it’s worth migrating to better hardware. It certainly helps when making your own ESP32 devices on a tight budget. …
… Prior to that, I thought all those Bluetooth devices were unreachable by Home Assistant. That’s when it struck me that a single board didn’t just connect a specific device to Home Assistant. Instead, it brought an entire category of devices online that I considered incompatible. …
… In fact, I daresay troubleshooting is easier on Linux. …
… But considering all the outages in my backwater town, it’s not uncommon for the low-priority devices in my arsenal to run out of juice. Heck, even without blackouts, I sometimes forget about recharging the standalone battery-powered devices. …
… Smart devices are isolated in their own subnet, away from primary machines. All that held up for nearly a week. Then my family noticed the TV's casting had stopped working, and they couldn’t stream music to the smart speaker either. I assumed an hour of troubleshooting could solve all that. …
… Manually setting DNS locally on a device allows for customization and troubleshooting, but it can also leave the door open for hardware to bypass your LAN's DNS screening. …
… The most critical information for a patch panel label is the port-to-location or port-to-device mapping. Cable brand and jack color are largely irrelevant during troubleshooting, and manufacture date rarely changes your workflow. …
… Watchman makes troubleshooting these broken entities a cakewalk, as it scans all the devices mentioned in your YAML configs before checking whether they’re actually operational. …
… The improvements were immediate and visible across all devices. NAS access was working normally again. Jellyfin was behaving as expected on all the devices, including TVs. Not only this, but the troubleshooting was faster too, and, surprisingly, there were fewer mysterious failures than before. …
… Launch the Device Manager , locate the device, right-click on it, and select Properties . …