Comment on Starting to self host
TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 1 day ago
If you want to give Home Assistant a try like others are suggesting, save yourself some time and hassle and install Home Assistant OS in a virtual machine. While you absolutely can run it in Docker you lose out on some neat quality of life improvements like add ons (which, funnily enough, are Docker containers pre-configured to hook in HA).
flightyhobler@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
What add-ons are you talking about? I run HA via Docker and I have full access to HACS.
TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
HACS installs community integrations whereas addons are like external programs that hook in HA. You can do the same thing with HA in Docker by installing the addon containers separately and then hooking them in manually but HA OS makes it much simpler.
For example I’m running the Mosquitto broker, Z2M, a Visual Studio Code server, diyhue, and Music Assistant as addons.
Docco page about it is here: www.home-assistant.io/addons/