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  • +1 for ZigBee - if cost is a factor you can get really cheap ZigBee devices from AliExpress and the like - $10 or less per temperature sensor. Z-wave requires certification for all devices supporting it, so they tend to be more expensive and more limited in variety.

    Blakadder’s ZigBee Repository is a great resource for verifying device compatibility with your chosen ZigBee integration - ZHA or Zigbee2mqtt. This might depend on your coordinator choice, as some (such as the Home Assistant Gen 1 usb-drive ones) only support ZHA, for example.

    For a coordinator, the Home Assistant brand ones are reportedly quite good, especially the second gen one. I personally use a SMLight SLZB-06, reasonably priced and supports power over Ethernet, so I have it wall mounted centrally. I also have my home assistant instance running in a separate building, so something that works over IP was a must.












  • If you’ve got multiple operating systems on one system, that’s dual booting! You can also partition a drive to have multiple os’s, but that can have slightly more difficulties.

    From last time I tried virtualisation, I needed to assign my graphics card to either the host or the virtual machine, and switching was a hassle. Unless things have changed, I decided booting into windows when absolutely required (anticheat) was the best option - avoiding some of the hassle that comes with virtualisation. If you’ve got multiple GPUs, that might be an option.

    I think OP is talking about having an application e.g. steam launch on startup, which can be set in Task Manager.

    Performance for virtual machines is honestly not as bad as you’d expect, provided it has reasonable resources allocated and the host isn’t being overworked. A GPU passed through will be much more enjoyable than a software/virtual GPU. You can expect 90%+ (perhaps up to 98% or so) of the performance of bare metal.





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    2 years ago

    Kind of makes sense - casting is usually a webstream without extra dev effort. I’m not sure if you still can, but I used to circumvent twitch ads by casting from my phone. Not to excuse their shitty behaviour; I gave up on them years ago and started hosting my own content.