What a Home Assistant maintenance contract should cost (running the RMR numbers)
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.
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Posts on Market
Collected posts on Market — from our practice running fleets of Home Assistant instances.
Practice · Guide
Practice · Guide
Home Assistant fleet management: multi-tenant beats the DIY rig
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.
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Comparison · Practice
A Nabu Casa alternative for integrators? Why that is the wrong question
Homeway, Tailscale, Cloudflare, Nabu Casa compared honestly. And why the real integrator question is not remote access, but oversight.
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Market · Encouragement
A Home Assistant business: can you build a living on open source?
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.
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Profession · Market
What does a Home Assistant integrator actually do? Job profile, tools, business models
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.
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