Comment on I love Home Assistant, but...

• JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • No backup solutions besides manual backing up and then setting up baremetal backing up

  • no configuration editor

  • HACS works, but no custom addons

  • manual configuration of esphome/nodered/mosquitto (I prefer this though)

  I prefer docker because it is comfortable for me and I run all my services on one server, but it is indeed a bit less easy.

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  • aksdb@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When I host multiple services, I need to back them up as well. I simply mount all data volumes of all containers into a unified location that gets backed up by kopia every hour.

    Since the volume is directly on disk, I also didn’t have any problems editing configuration files.

    The things I see listed as addons on the website are dedicated services anyway, that have images of their own you can easily spin up as containers.

    I think if someone is advanced enough to want to run HASS on their own together with other stuff, they prefer to have more control anyway.

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    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For sure, but the point is that it isn’t integrated into homeassistant.

      For many people, they want to do everything from homeassistant. You can always have kludged together solutions. I edit my configs with VIM and backup to my central backup location via an automation. However, this is doing things outside of homeassistant that many people find inconvenient.

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      • aksdb@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My point however was that people who want that kind of convenience (or rather who don’t want to fiddle around manually), why would they want to run HASS in a container in the first place? Either you are tinkerer, then it doesn’t matter or you are not, in which case you probably don’t arrive at the point of running HASS on anything other than a preinstalled distro in the first place.

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  • hai@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I prefer docker because it is comfortable for me and I run all my services on one server, but it is indeed a bit less easy.

    Reading all of these replying I’m starting to think that maybe my problem was assuming that because add-ons are Docker container they should be treated as such.

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