Knossos

That’s great. I recently got a pet feeder from them. My main criteria was that it works with ZigBee and home assistant.

Every other I have tried ends up failing with communication with their back ends, inevitably leading to a piece of unmaintainable trash.

Aqara worked immediately out of the box. Connected to my home assistant within minutes.

On my Fritzbox, I needed to add all my Subdomains to a list under:

DNS Rebind Protection Your FRITZ!Box suppresses DNS responses that refer to IP addresses in its own home network (DNS rebind protection). Here you can specify exceptions for which DNS rebind protection should not apply. Do this by entering the complete name of the host (domain name including the subdomain) in the list.

That’s under network settings, advanced. In case you have that.

I use a HDD for my immich instance. I have a feeling it might have made the initial import process quicker (complete google photos dump). However, general usage, I have found zero bottlenecks.

Thank you for the insight. The Unity debacle really shot my trust in the product. I hope it bounces back and that your job security returns.