"I am one of these people, and I am only getting worse over time, which is why I have converted my smart home to Home Assistant, the home automation solution for true freaks."

I'm OK with that. 🤣

I set up a personal instance using https://masto.host. It's a small operation that I believe is run by one person. Hugo has been great about responding to my questions.

My instance has only been up for about 3 days and I've exceeded my Media Storage limit twice. The first time, I upgraded to the "Planet" plan which has the added bonus of being more responsive.

This time, I've tried setting my Media Retention Period to 3 days and am hoping that's sufficient.

Do you have any other optimization tips to share? Unfortunately (but also, fortunately), it's a managed service, so I'm limited to only what is available in the Mastodon web interface.

All this week, The Verge is reviewing their picks for the top 5 smart home platforms - including Home Assistant.

Their list:

1. Amazon Alexa
2. Apple Home
3. Google Home
4. Samsung SmartThings
5. Home Assistant

If you're running Home Assistant on an SBC other storage constrained device, you can now use available storage elsewhere on your network. Game changer, at least for me. Lots of other updates in this release, too.