Collected posts on Business — from our practice running fleets of Home Assistant instances.
How to put a defensible number on a smart-home project: itemised list instead of a flat rate, measured labour instead of gut feeling, your own trade prices instead of catalogue values. Plus a free tool that keeps that calculation running while you work on the floor plan.
What should a Home Assistant maintenance contract cost? A €10 to €40 per month corridor derived from neighbouring trades, and the RMR maths behind it.
No vendor behind you, forever at the customer site, updates that wreck everything — the three big fears about going pro with Home Assistant. Why WordPress carried exactly the same fears and still spawned an entire service industry.
In German-speaking Europe "Home Assistant integrator" is barely an established profession — and that is exactly the opportunity. Who looks after HA for a living, what they do day to day, the tools they reach for, how they get paid.