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Have been running home automation for about 14 years but recently started to migrate to home assistant (from fibaro HC2) and tidy up my ever growing physical setup along the way. . This may seem like a big setup but I've been building this up over many years and doing all the work myself and got some of the equipment used.
(not sure if this is suitable for a thread here on the forum but can move / amend / delete if required)

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Here is a v quick summary ....
I have it running on tiny thinkcenter pc installed directly - no issues and has proved very resilient
All my automations have been recreated from my older fibaro HC2 and are running on HA
About 20 of my zwave devices are running on Home Assistant and the remaining ~60 are still on my HC2 but can be seen through an integration (will moved devices over next couple of months)
Integrations that I need are almost all installed and range from music, tv, cinema, security alarm, zwave and wifi devices, octoprint, NUT, Unifi Controller, USG and AP, heating system, Solar PV system, fire tv sticks, SAt receiver, HDMi switch, and other media devices, synologyNAS, Cameras, blinds, sonos zones, alexa devices, etc
am using Nabu C for now but will move away from that over next couple of months
I've simplified my physical setup as I was able to do away with a pi running sonos bridge and NUT and also a pi running automation bridge
Now consists of Modem, Unifi USG, Thinkcenter PC and SPC gateway / Vanderbilt Alarm, Synology NAS and UPS (working on improving this)
Really like the unifi equipment (have USG and 4 AP and running Unif Controller Add-On) and hoping to get a 24 port layer 3 switch at some stage to do some network segmentation (UDM is a bit of of my price band)

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I have the centralised components in 2 racks..

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Rack one has been simplified and reconfigured
Top half (above the PDU) are the critical systems (model, Home Assistant, Alarm, etc) - currently draws about 135w, would like to see if I can reduce that
Lower half are non critical (media and "home cinema" related )
I'm building a power shelf/PDU to replace the PDU and will allow me to switch off remotely (and locally) the non critical system at night/away and in the event of a power outage
(am looking to source a second hard bigger UPS and integrate that )

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RackTwo tidy up and reconfig (mainly distribution around the house and garage) is a WIP

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Working on centralising my energy monitoring setup (mainly shelly EM's)

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Hoping to post a little more over the next few months if poeple find this informative and interesting

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