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Home Assistant Opens Locally but Fails Remotely After a Router Change
If Home Assistant still works locally after a router change, troubleshoot the remote path outward: LAN IP, NAT or tunnel, public IP, DNS, and proxy.
A Safe Home Assistant Migration Checklist for a New Home Server
Move Home Assistant as a recovery exercise: verify the backup, radios, storage, network identity, and local control before retiring the old server.
Should You Back Up Home Assistant Live or Stop the Service First?
Built-in Home Assistant backups can run live; plain filesystem copies should stop or quiesce Home Assistant unless the database is backed up consistently.
Why Does a Home Assistant Server Run Hot or Noisy During Idle Hours?
Correlate Home Assistant fan or temperature spikes with Recorder, backups, integrations, and co-hosted jobs before changing cooling or CPU limits.
When Should You Rebuild Rather Than Repair Home Assistant?
Repair the smallest failed Home Assistant layer first, restore known-good state next, and rebuild only when persistent configuration cannot be trusted.
How Much Free Storage Should Home Assistant Keep for Background Jobs?
Size Home Assistant free space from the Recorder database, backup growth, maintenance peaks, and recovery operations—not a universal percentage.
Can Home Assistant Run Reliably With Its Data on a Network Share?
Use network shares for Home Assistant backups or media first; keep live config and SQLite local unless the remote data path has been proven carefully.
How to Tell Whether Home Assistant Is Limited by CPU, RAM, Storage, or Network
Reproduce one Home Assistant symptom and correlate it with CPU, memory pressure, storage latency, or network failure before changing hardware.
