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There is literally not one singular(!) arr that does what you’re claiming, at least that I’m aware of. The indexing is done by a different thing than the tracking and the downloading.

That’s why you end up with 16 of them like OP after all…

The router is not directly involved in a dns query except, we’ll, the routing if it’s an non local IP. The DNS ip addresses is propagated either via dhcp together with the clients or directly configured in the client. That said: most routers serve as dhcp server at the same time. Perhaps your router is configured to always provide your ISPs DNS as primary.

How the client handles the decision which to query I honestly don’t know and I guess that’s why you and I made different experiences!

The client does a fallback if one dns doesn’t answer. That’s why dns ad blockers fail if 8.8.8.8 or some other dns is added as a secondary :)

I second openhab. Can’t speak for too many integrations but all I tried work without issues.

Especially the separation of abstraction layers is something that I came to appreciate highly. You have the physical object, it’s item representation and then the rules and interactions. On the downside might be the way that this abstraction makes the configuration a bit more complicated - but as you’re missing the yaml config you might enjoy the configuration files! I’d just give it a shot :)

HA has a sour taste for me since their broken promise about open sourcing their server side. It’s still a black box. Plus the whole dns debacle a while back. And I honestly don’t understand how HA is still the de facto standard for home automation - I tried recreating some of my more complicated rules in HA and it became such a mess very quickly (think of 3 or 4 non nested conditions and altering the states of multiple objects depending on virtual items).

Just curious: why?

I never tried proxmox that’s why I’m asking :)