Home Network Setups

[SauRoNZA]

Nope, it runs the Odriod N2+ and has a bit more horsepower than a Pi4:
https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-n2-with-4gbyte-ram-2/

Home Assistant did a limited run of these customised for an automation server. Pretty beefy spec; although still not cheap after shipping and duties.
https://www.home-assistant.io/blue

If I had to start over, I'd just get a NUC. It's got a lot more grunt for running many other services on it as well.

Yeah I must say I was not impressed with the Pi implementation when I tried it earlier in the year with the intention of having it run on my UPS under load shedding.

Maybe it's just because I'm too use to having full control and running all my individual Dockers, but it just felt like such a struggle to get all my usual things fired up inside HA's Docker and HACS extensions that all seemed very limiting.

All my stuff runs off UnRAID on my Microserver and my only issue is that it of course uses a bit more power than necessary and therefore can't power through a Load Shedding.

But ultimately want to go semi off-grid in the next year or two so that will be addressed then.

 

[yogidabear]

So I wonder if having the controller online still does a better job of it and this is just a failover thing, or if the controller no longer does it at all.

Controller has nothing to do with roaming as mentioned already, but zero handoff is a thing of the past https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004662107-UniFi-Fast-Roaming