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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Fit-Cry3003 on 2026-03-10 16:09:33+00:00.
I cobbled together HA instance about 2 years ago. I have 156 devices, 615 entities. 42 "automations", 6 scenes, 3 scripts. Not a wildly crazy smart home setup but I would say quiet a few moving pieces.
65ish lutron switches, zigbee bulbs, z Wave thermostats, nest thermostat, nest doorbell, ubiquity cameras, few smart TVs, six Sonos outputs, alarm panel pro with 8 or so sensors, night light zigbee repeaters, motion sensors, konnected garage door openers, broadlink rf thing, wake on lan for desktops, pjlink for projector.
... I have not once in the two years of messing with home assistant had stuff just stop working. I get it's not a commercial vendor type install sort of product but it's been completely painless for me in terms of ongoing reliability. Sure, certain automations can take a minute to build and get working but once I got everything going, that's been it. No intervention has ever been required to fix randomly broken stuff. I do the updates the app tells me to do. Nothing ever breaks.
I'm sure I set off a cataclysmic set of events for my HA but I was just wondering, does everyone have these ongoing headaches of stuff not working? Is it my device types/brands that allow for such reliability? Or not as advanced automations? Anything else I'm missing?