--- title: Home Assistant waters my plants! | daily.dev description: A personal account of setting up Home Assistant on a Beelink mini PC running Proxmox to automate a garden irrigation system. The setup uses a Link-Tap Q1... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/home-assistant-waters-my-plants--i0o9wij2e twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Home Assistant waters my plants! | daily.dev og:description: A personal account of setting up Home Assistant on a Beelink mini PC running Proxmox to automate a garden irrigation system. The setup uses a Link-Tap Q1... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/home-assistant-waters-my-plants--i0o9wij2e og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/I0o9WIj2e.png og:image:alt: Home Assistant waters my plants! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Home Assistant waters my plants! **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal account of setting up Home Assistant on a Beelink mini PC running Proxmox to automate a garden irrigation system. The setup uses a Link-Tap Q1 4-zone water timer connected via a local MQTT broker, with Zigbee sensors (via SONOFF ZBDongle-P and zigbee2mqtt) for soil moisture and climate monitoring. Automations handle daily watering schedules with weather-aware logic and push notifications. Remote access is secured through Cloudflare Tunnels with Zero Trust. The post also covers backup scheduling in Proxmox and an NVMe deep-sleep bug workaround, with future plans for solar energy monitoring and expanded irrigation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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