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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)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recommend HA OS. What happened to me is that I used docker, got everything set up how I liked it, then had to move over to HA OS when I needed a specific add on and didn’t have any other solution.

If you don’t already have a plan for other services, might not make sense to use docker, too.

[–] InterestedViewer 1 points 1 year ago

What add on was that? HA OS add ons are simply docker containers themselves- you should have been able to create it outside of HA OS just fine.