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Sounds super weird to me. I haven't had any problems at all, but I run it on a RPi rather than a VM.
Do you use it as a docker container or the full Home Assistant OS?
I want to get it to play around but cannot really justify buying a separate raspberry pi jhst for HA?
I do all docker containers on a pi3, running on USB Stick as drive
Awesome thanks. Thats pretty much my setup so Ill definitely give it a go
I ran it in Docker initially and it's annoying because you can't use HACS, which brings in a lot of custom integrations and features. You also can't use any addons that spin up containers either. I ended up getting a thin client and running it on there in a VM.
My add-ons are in containers. EspHome, Node Red, PiHole, zigbee2mqtt, mosquito etc
How do you go about integrating it with HA?
I installed them via HA add-ons, so they appear within integrations etc. The wiring of logic I do mainly in node-red, with HA just being a pretty frontend with buttons and cards essentially.
I think we're talking about different things then, addons are not supported when running HA in a container.
https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/#compare-installation-methods
I set this up maybe half a year ago. Maybe docs don't support it anymore
Huh, very cool!
Maybe try find hassio, but maybe it's not the fully recommended way anymore, but least it's all containerised
I may consider it. I hate that I have to have an entire other VM running for HA. Thanks for the insight.
You can use HACS in Docker. I definitely had that working in Docker before I moved to Home Assistant OS on a dedicated machine. You're right about add-ons though, maybe you had the two confused?
Eh, I'm not sure tbh, it was too much of a pain to do and the pi3 wasn't powerful enough to handle it either so I moved to a VM on Debian.
I just run HAOS on the hardware, yeah. Have considered making it a container on my main home server, but I have the RPi and I just want my home assistant to work. My home server is more of a tinker project so it's nice to keep them separate.