Smart Home Hardware

Ubiquiti UniFi Network
- Security gateway, switches, access points

Z-Wave Network
- Light dimmers and switches, motion and leak sensors, water valve shutoff

Google Nest
- Nest Hello doorbell, Protect smoke detectors, display Hubs, speakers, Chromecast Audio

Sense Energy Monitor
- Real-time home energy use, device power monitoring, history, energy alerts

DSC + Envisalink/Eyez-On
- Alarm system + network integration/API

Smart Home Environments

Server: Proxmox VE (Virtual Environment))
- 64gb ECC DDR4, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Cores/24-Threads, 2 PCIe 3.0 1TB m.2 in ZFS RAID 1

VM: Home Assistant OS
- 5-10GB RAM, 4 cores, 50GB OS storage
- Z-Wave Network (USB passthrough)

VM: Ubuntu LTS
- 10-16GB RAM, 6 cores, 100GB OS storage
- SAS Passthrough (11 8TB HDDs)
- SnapRAID (data integrity, file backup/recovery for disk arrays)
- Mergerfs (drive pooling)
- RTL-SDR USB passthrough (water meter transmissions)

VM: Windows 11 Professional
- 16-32GB RAM, 16 cores, 550GB OS storage
- AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT GPU (PCIe 4.0 x16 passthrough)
- Dell 34-Inch QHD Ultra Wide Curved 1440p LED Display (with KVM, PiP, PbP)

Server: Proxmox BS (Backup Server)
- Dedicated 2TB notebook

Smart Home Technologies

ZeroTier (Encrypted virtual network backbone; like a combined VPN and SD-WAN)

Docker (OS-level software virtualization in containers)