Wait so you have a separate HA for every room in your house? What benefit do you actually get from that?
Edit upon further reflection: I’m doing something very similar. I have one bad mesh right now with lots of repeaters to transit my ridiculously long house.
The house is a barbell with the “house” part on one end and an office on the other, separated by a garage, with a detached shed in the back yard. My plan is to put a zwave stick + raspberry pi running zwave2mqtt in every “building envelope”, so four total. Those will all talk to an mqtt broker colocated with my singular HA instance.
> Wait so you have a separate HA for every room in your house? What benefit do you actually get from that?
I could. Its just a docker image and a $15 usb stick, so... The benefit is as per the linked article the hardware (and software?) doesn't scale beyond 100 devices or so, and I'll never have more than 100 devices in one room...
My house only has a couple dozen zwave things so I'm not bumping up against the scalability limits as seem in the linked article so I'm all good.
Strange room idea: Since I have presence detection I could redirect incoming connections from my phone to the current room LOL. "Microsegmentation" also makes some strange possibilities for security.
Edit upon further reflection: I’m doing something very similar. I have one bad mesh right now with lots of repeaters to transit my ridiculously long house.
The house is a barbell with the “house” part on one end and an office on the other, separated by a garage, with a detached shed in the back yard. My plan is to put a zwave stick + raspberry pi running zwave2mqtt in every “building envelope”, so four total. Those will all talk to an mqtt broker colocated with my singular HA instance.