Maybe for most personal users, but in B2B (where the money is) …

I have an HDD at my parents place and manually bring over snapshots when I visit. Off site does not necessarily mean cloud.

If you are using aptitude (apt) it is quite simple: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/how-to/software/automatic-updates/

If you just want security updates and are fine with the default configs:

# apt install unattended-upgrades

You can test that on this site:

https://no-sct.badssl.com/

I don’t know why you are being downvoted. You are right, Syncthing does not support local sync.

To set up matter for using bluetooth one just needs to go into the matter-server apps settings and turn on “Enable BLE proxy”.

Besides what the name suggests, that also works for local bluetooth dongles.

I litteraly had exactly the same issue last week.

It seems like the subsystem for adding matter devices on Android is part of Play services and not supported in Graphene.

I read around a bit and there are supposed to be ways of adding your phone or a laptop as bluetooth proxies and use them to pair the devices. If that works for you, great! I mearly wasted a few hours trying to get any of that to work and then gave up. What did work for me instead was going to the store, buying a 10€ bluetooth dongle and plugging that into homeassistant.

Whatever route you go, once you HA-instance has access to bluetooth (and you have anabled the bluetooth integration), go to the matter server app and in the configuration toggle “Enable BLE proxy” on.

Then restart the server and you can add your devices in the Matter Server by clicking on comission node -> new thread device and entering the key (including hyphens, found that out the hard way :|…). It does take a bit longer then adding zigbee devices but works and has been stable so far.

I click it when I see it in the app. But knowing there are auto-updates, I might just turn those on instead.

I have regular backups of the entire system, so if I notice something broke, I can always just roll back.

From the changelog:

Packaging

• Debian Bullseye and Ubuntu Focal packages are no longer built

Are you maybe running Focal?

Does the issue only occour for live photos? If so it might also be an issue with video codecs 🤷‍♂️.

Tbh I still consider Proxmox as Debian, so you’re pretty much there ;).