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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Debating between Home Assistant OS or Docker for Raspberry Pi 4 (discuss.tchncs.de)

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If I am not mistaken the tradeoff is losing add-ons but being able to install other services.

So... what is your experience? Are add-ons useful/common for your use case?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Home assistant OS is also my recommendation. Add-ons are pretty important IMO. Plus for something I am planning to try and have 100% uptime and controlling my home smart devices I don't want it containerized and at the mercy of docker.

Currently using 15 add-ons myself.

[–] InterestedViewer 1 points 1 year ago

Add ons are docker containers. The main advantage of HA OS is that the add on docker images are configured for you vs you having to edit a few parameters.

Also, there isn't really any inherent stability difference between HA OS and docker. If anything, i'd give the slight nod to docker running on a stable Linux flavor, but YMMV. I've been running the HA docker via Unraid for years alongside ~30 other docker "add ons" (many have nothing to do with HA) without any stability issues.