I don’t like the use of the word cloud, makes it sound like some mystical virtual environment in the sky that anyone can use and it just works.

It’s someone else’s computer, nothing more

Thanks for the advice, I’ll look at the docs.

How’s your RAM usage for HA? The pi I have is only 2gb, already runs pihole but I can buy another/run HA on my server, but if I don’t need to, then I won’t.