you could look at wifi/zigbee buttons, Shelly have wifi buttons.

I think your running it wrong if you have that many issues, but I would say Nextcloud is a big system and setup can be hard to get right.

If you need help I run nextcloud fine and could point you at things to check

a lot of that can be done with nextcloud, there a apps that cover all sorts of thing.

I dont have a business so cant comment more

What about small step sash ca?

I’ve been using it to secure all my stuff for over a year, no more copying keys about

I think you miss understand, if ha has the broker and a mesh node. Then your node could just send a message home and your home node would post the message to mqtt

FYI: home assistant can run an Mqtt server, so you could still post messages to it over meshtastic

HA will connect to almost anything, maybe there is a connector for your AC unit and there are many air quality sensors

Yes I run my install on a pi5, upgraded from a pi4.

This has been asked before, the answer is don’t use mobile to edit spreadsheets

I have found this repo https://github.com/3dg1luk43/ha_washdata

What about shout outs to a local garden clubs, I know of a club the south-west that others might be interested in?

where and how do I get that?

That is too funny

As an IT admin, I can confirm that we are everything.

Don’t mess with IT, they can make your job even more difficult

Also on top of that, find time to keep it up to date. If leave it rot things will get harder to maintain.

I sit down once a week and go over all the updates needed, both the docker hosts and all the images they run.

Great, now pottering can decide if your whole system can boot. And if it doesn’t, good luck finding out why?

Google meet is the only thing I have used that doesn’t need a desktop program, I used it over lockdown and got the in-laws to join (both very not technical).

I can’t say much for chat, as it was never any good. We used slack for text chat, but that has gone down hill with Salesforce.

I’ve hear of exchange servers that get rebuilt every other day, so I will be avoiding microshit for as long as possible

What about contact sensors? To detect opening a door or window

Can you detect vibration?

What about pressure on door mats?

I’ve always used free -mh to check memory, so I would say you have 4gb available.

Sure, but only if he can get openreach to run me fiber to my house!

Wait, no I don’t want a cloud computer. I like things the way they are