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#homematic Articles

Sat 18 July 2026
FreeBSD

My Home Assistant Setup: bhyve, FreeBSD Jails, Zigbee, Homematic, and Matter over Thread

My Home Assistant OS installation runs as a bhyve VM on a FreeBSD home server, while Zigbee2MQTT and Mosquitto live in a VNET jail with direct access to a ConBee II USB adapter. Homematic comes through a CCU3, and three recent IKEA Matter-over-Thread devices use the Nanoleaf Shapes controller I already owned as their border router.