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When I set mine up, it went through a bunch of gyrations and then said it was going to be a while before it completed. So I went about my business and came back a couple of hours later. It found a gazillion devices and had set them all up. The default list was several pages long and frankly was more than a little intimidating. HA has its own vernacular, and it's not something that someone used to programming will look at and intuitively understand. It's very powerful, but I would be lying if I said I really understood the YAML it uses. That's the reason I'm looking for other means of programming/scripting. Just last night, the 7 or 8 automations I've got that I want to consolidate went wonky I suspect because they were stepping on each other. I rebooted HA, and it "seemed" to cure it, but this episode just reinforced the thought that HA is not a true "automation" system. It's just far too fragile. It might be good for hobbyists, doing some fascinating things in it, but it would be an anathema to someone in the commercial world. Cheers

I've got a HA Yellow dedicated device with a RPi CM 4. Some time back I bought two HP EliteDesk machines I bought on the cheap that I use for a plethora of "homelab" things, including my favorite self hosted app; Trilium. Both of these machines are running Ubuntu server with Docker/Portainer managing containers. The EliteDesks were cheaper than RPi 5's with all the necessary accoutrements to be self standing. So, something of a no brainer. cheers,

Thanks Rolf, This sounds like a LOT more effort than I want to engage in. cheers,

I'm working through the same gauntlet. Had to manually install libglu1 before it would respond to the Applications selection. LV starts, but the tools and controls palettes just flash repeatedly. Installed on two machines running Pop!_OS COSMIC and both do the same, even though they are drastically different hardware. Did realize most of my old code has Windows dll hooks, so is of limited usage. Not sure how much I'm going to chase this at this precise instant in time. cheers

Thanks, I'll be honest, I'm allergic to Discord. Vehemently so. To the point where I refuse to use it. Just seems like a lot of unfiltered noise to this old man. I'm gonna play with NodeRed and see if it's the tool of choice. And oh, back in the day I was a National Instruments Alliance Member. Dunno if that's still a thing or not. Cheers,

Hello out there. Once upon a time in a land far, far away, I was a LabVIEW Partner (don't think it was Partner in those days, but that's what it's called now). As my professional activities drifted in a different direction, I've not done any LabVIEW in a while, but it's aways been near and dear to my heart. Life brought retirement about 2 1/2 years ago, and I've been dabbling with a number of things in my "spare" time. One of which is Home Assistant. Somehow, somewhy, HA has exploded as the thing in home automation. It's support of devices is amazing. There are some 10,000 "integrations" available and more being developed every day. The downside is the "programming" as they call it. Oi. I'm not a programmer, and don't play one on TV, but I'm conversant in a plethora of programming tools, including LabVIEW. HA purports to be able to do everything via it's UI, but the ugly truth is, the really useful screen elements (they call them cards) don't have UI connections. It's all YAML. (Yet Another Markdown Language) OMG. This stuff hurts my head in a spectacularly large and significant way. There are two "segments" to HA, Dashboards and Automations. Automations I can "kinda" do, but Dashboards are a nine line cluster. It took me over a week to build a simple UI with 5 screen elements to control the volume on three audio devices in my house. And that was with the help of some kind soul on the forum that took pity on me. Without his help, it simply wouldn't have happened. I could have crafted this in 20 minutes with LabVIEW, or python. So, what I have been doing is some automation stuff for the house. Due to my lack of knowledge of the ins and outs of automations, and the documentation is 12-24 months behind schedule at any point, I've had to break up what is effectively a state machine into about 10 discrete automations. And as you would expect, I'm running into issues with them interacting with each other. So, I've put together a textual descriptive of what I want to do and have been investigating the best way to do this in HA. What virtually everyone uses for these types of "flows" as they call them is NODE-Red. There is much to like about NODE-Red, but the first thing it reminded me of was LabVIEW. So, for laughs, this morning I went looking, and lo and behold found the Community Edition, and a version to run on Linux as a cherry on top. I'm migrating all my activities that I can away from Windows, as none of the computers in my house will run Windows 11. So, while I wait for NI to figure out why my e-mail is not verified, I have to ask: Has anyone had any interaction with HA? Any thoughts about interaction between LV and HA? Take care