Collected posts on Market — from our practice running fleets of Home Assistant instances.
Home Assistant in business: documented cases from a brewery, farms, a university and holiday rentals. Plus the nursing home question and where the limits are.
Statutory liability under German law, manufacturer warranties and the real-world lifespan of KNX, Loxone, Shelly, ESP32 and Raspberry Pi. With sources, dissenting voices, and the gap that opens up between the statute book and the datasheet.
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.
Managing multiple Home Assistant instances for clients with remote_homeassistant, an MQTT bridge or a VPN hits a wall. Why fleet management is its own category.
Homeway, Tailscale, Cloudflare, Nabu Casa compared honestly. And why the real integrator question is not remote access, but oversight.
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.