pete_c
Guru
Moral: To reduce frustration, keep your HA system standalone. I'm contemplating getting an Intel NUC or something small for CQC, and putting WHS back on that. But its hard to justify spending incremental time to build another box, move all the crap over to a new server, just so I can get TTS working. I have a lot of non-HA demands on my time, and don't feel like piddling with this.
+1
Curious about your WHS justification?
Is it because all of the network connected devices on your home network is Wintel (PCs, Laptops, Tablets and Phones)?
Here over the years and relating to the expansion of what my Homeseer box was doing and connected to decided it was better to keep it on one box. There are a few Homeseer users utilizing Homeseer in Wintel VM's today and while it's working fine; it's not talking to 20 pieces of autonomous hardware that is serially, USB or network connected.
Ideally one multiple automation protocol firmware hub is one solution; "ISY994i controller supports ZWave, Insteon, Zigbee, IR, and X10 from built in cards" .
Ideally too if the hub has some built in smarts to be able to say do simple scheduling and a few scripted events also works well.