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Why is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages? (feddit.uk)
submitted 10 months ago by rah@feddit.uk to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It can also be installed using docker containers but that is more difficult to manage as you have to install every component manually.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That’s not how docker works, bud.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess that my message wasn’t clear but by “component” I meant a home automation component.

I have the following containers in my HA installation:

  • Home assistant
  • Node red
  • MQTT
  • Zigbee2mqtt
  • Esphome

And maybe others that I have forgotten.

Each had to be installed manually by adding it to my docker compose file, mapping drives, and editing config files.

Most, if not all, of them (except HA) can be installed from within HA if you’re using HAOS.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

Ah, that makes a lot more sense.

[–] fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@nogooduser @rah I'm currently running it in docker, and it's taught me a lot about docker, but it's a hell of a technical overhead every time you want an addon.

The documentation very strongly steers you to a whole-os install, and I don't like that, but I'm tempted. I may well succumb and pick the HA image for my raspberry Pi, start over

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The one thing that was a misstep on my docker journey was that the original tutorials that I followed installed them using the command line. It’s much better to do it using a docker compose file.

[–] fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

@nogooduser Oh yes, I agree. Docker documentation is so random. Once I discovered that later versions of compose could inline the buildfile, I realised that was clearly the way to go. But you have to hunt through the docs to find it.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

Yep, that's how my install is, running Debian, home assistant in containers (core, supervisor, more)