Post #3920736
2026-07-18 21:43 UTC
New on the blog: my Home Assistant setup on FreeBSD.
Home Assistant OS runs in a bhyve VM, but bhyve has no USB passthrough, so Zigbee2MQTT and Mosquitto live in a VNET jail with the ConBee II.
Homematic comes in via a CCU3, and three IKEA Matter-over-Thread devices use my Nanoleaf Shapes controller as their border router.
Three radio ecosystems, 474 entities, one dashboard.
https://blog.hofstede.it/my-home-assistant-setup-bhyve-freebsd-jails-zigbee-homematic-and-matter-over-thread/
#FreeBSD #HomeAssistant #bhyve #Zigbee #Matter #Thread #SelfHosting
Replies (4)
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@emaste@mastodon.social 2026-07-18 21:47
@Larvitz@burningboard.net Thanks for writing this up! FWIW, bhyve will get USB passthrough in the not-too-distant future.
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@jerry507@mstdn.social 2026-07-18 23:12
@Larvitz@burningboard.net An interesting solution to the USB problem. I bought a USB card and used the pcie pass through, but that requires extra hardware and an available PCIe slot.
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@spitfire@mastodon.social 2026-07-18 23:23
@Larvitz@burningboard.net @homeassistant@tagpush.app you could also use PoE powered Zigbee coordinator. It fixes 2 problems: it’s easier to put it in a more central location, and you can use it with Z2M running on a VM, with no USB passthrough
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@nilskassube@mastodon.social 2026-07-19 19:54
@Larvitz@burningboard.net Thanks for the interesting article! One question: how do you take care of the TLS setup inside your home network?