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It lowers the chance of failure of the most vulnerable part. The NAS existed before and had RAID and backups anyway. And if the switch fails I can't access home assistant anyway.

The more important part is that all automations are just nice to have things and not needed to "run" the house. It's for stuff like "charge the car when the sun is high" or "notify me when the washing machine has finished".



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