[jhoelzel]

Truth be told i installed HA on a pie about 3 years ago and have largely forgotten about it.

It just works for me and what i do, all you have to do is occasionally apply updates. Granted i mainly focus on creating my own powersockets and fuses with shelly products and otherwise focus on local homekit devices.

I also have some of those tuya devices and i hope to get rid of them at some point very soon. Zigbee is good for local and as long as the switch runs by clicking it too, i really have no issue nor care what its running on.

I just have a secops feeling that wifi is really not what i want.

[jmacd]

I am with you. 2.5 years running on a Pi. I also have 6 security cameras writing to a MicroSD in it which I thought was surely a recipe for disaster, but it has been rock solid. I have experienced no reliability issues and I am running everything out of Home Assistant exposed as HomeKit resources.

[m463]

I would back it up regularly.

Alternatively you boot and run a pi off a USB stick.