Switching to Home Assistant and Monitoring Backups

In this chapter, they discuss their experience with different smart home systems and how they eventually switched to using home assistant. They talk about the convenience of controlling light switches and not having to hardwire everything together. They also mention the drawbacks they faced with other systems and the process of setting up home assistant on a server. They discuss using the system monitor component to track CPU usage, RAM, and hard disk space, as well as monitoring their encrypted external hard drives to ensure backups are current.