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Runtime State vs Persistent State in Home Assistant: What Must Survive Restart?
Home Assistant does not persist every live value; config, registries, selected restored states, history, and deployment data play different restart roles.
How Does Home Assistant Authenticate Local and Remote Sessions?
Local and remote Home Assistant sessions use the same server-side identity model; remote access changes the route and TLS boundary, not the core token flow.
Why Can Home Assistant History Queries Slow as Recorder Data Grows?
Recorder growth can raise History query cost when the requested range touches more rows, cache misses increase, or storage and index work become slower.
Why Does Home Assistant Rebuild Different State After a Container Restart?
Container restart does not equal state loss: Home Assistant rebuilds runtime state from persistent config, integrations, registries, and external sources.
What Hardware and Software Factors Determine Home Assistant Recovery Time?
Recovery time combines transfer, decompression, app and database rebuild, dependency reconnection, radio recovery, and validation.
What Does Home Assistant Actually Cache, and Which Repeated Requests Get Faster?
Browser assets, live frontend state, and Linux page cache can speed repeated Home Assistant work without increasing true system capacity.
How Resource Isolation Changes Home Assistant Results on a Multi-App Home Server
On a multi-app server, Home Assistant changes when CPU, memory, and I/O contention are isolated; limits help only after the bottleneck is measured.
Why Is Home Assistant Expanding Local Processing?
Home Assistant's local-first model is expanding into voice and AI while keeping privacy, offline control, open protocols, and cloud choice.
