I paid for this app expecting an easy setup and instead I’m debugging why the VM hasn’t got an IP. I’m doing this because the home assistant.local:8123 url isn’t accessible.

Has been running great on an M1 Mac Mini for months now. Just bought a Zigbee dongle and some devices only to discover I now have to find a new, more complex solution. Dev, please work on USB passthrough support so I can return to your clean, simple app! If you don't need any USB devices attached to your HA instance, this is a great solution. Until USB passthrough support is added however, I cannot reccomend it to everyone.

With this, the m4 Mac mini is one of the most powerful and best value HA servers out there.

No longer shows up in the menu bar. About a week later it just totally stopped working. I did save backups so Im going to attempt an uninstall and reinstall. Not confident in the long term functionality of this tool.

I used to run this app when I switched my home server to a Mac mini m1 and it worked great. When I switched to proxmox I (for very obvious reasons) stopped using it. When I then AGAIN went back to the Mac mini due to just size of the machine and lower power consumption I decided I’d run my own VM of home assistant over this app for the added control. The VM just didn’t want to boot up at start which made it annoying. Granted I didn’t restart the Mac mini all that much once it was up and running, but I still was worried I’d get home and I wouldn’t be able to control my lights. After trying for sometime and failing to get UTM and Parallels to boot at start up I gave up and just redownloaded this container and everything is back working. Sometimes the easiest solution is the best solution.

Setup is easy. Requires no add-on device (such as HA Green). Runs HA like a champ. Successfully setup my Google Nest thermostat E HA integration, and my Victor Smart-Kill trap HA integration (available on GitHub). Nicely done.

Running on a 2020 M1 MacMini with 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD. As I write, I've been using this for 3 weeks to extensively tinker with Home Assistant (HA), and I am a happy camper so far. I'm a newbie to the HA world, and this has been a great way to start. It's clear that seperate from this app, the HA project itself is a hobbist work in progress and as fragile, if not more so, than any software -- and susceptible to mishaps, not if, but when. Be sure to maintain frequent backups and not to assume that all will be peaches and cream.

I am now on my 5th virtual machine, its so flaky. First time HA wouldnt install. Second time it worked, but when I had to restart HA it refused to restart. Third time all OK but an add on I previously installed without issue no longer worked. 4th time it would not restart. Now on 5th, scared to touch it... Pretty disappointed.

This is such a great idea and seems promising but it's in dire need of the ability to pass through USB devices. I have a Bluetooth dongle and a Zigbee dongle that I need to be able to access in order to use this as a viable replacement for a virtual machine. And I imagine that's a pretty common setup for most HA users.

This is pretty easy to setup a server to run home assisant. However, there is no support for SSL or https. This is not very useful to integrate multiple devices, especially through google home/assisant. Had to request a refund from apple.