Add-on store in homeassistant

Installation
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Hello !

I hope this is the correct category for my question. Please forgive me if I am wrong!

My question: What can I do to get the add-on store integrated into my fresh installation of HA? And - if there is no way at all to get the store integrated - which installation method (Raspi/SD/SSD cards are no go for me) can be used in order to access the store?

All the solutions I found so far point towards hass.io which is seemingly no option. anymore. RTFM did not bring up any idea so far either. I am kind of stuck.

So far I used the store to get add-ons like ESPHome and HACS to mention the most important add-ons for my setup.
Here is my setup:

Short story:
The problem I am facing is that the add-on shop does not show up in the browser. I learned that the add-ons can be manually installed, but every search result points to using the add-on only. A bit frustrating…

The long story:
I had a running hass.io / docker setup which I created using My idea was to create a new home for my HA setup from scatch as I wanted to switch to the latest LTS of Ubuntu. As hass.io is deprecated I did some research and selected the alternative installation in a venv.
I chose the installation method mentioned above as I did not have a Raspberry Pie (using HassOS) nor did I want to use a virtual machine not docker. Hass.io and docker would have been my favourite choice, but as this option is deprecated… ;-(

Thank you in advance for any hint!

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The only way to get add-ons is to follow the Home Assistant install guide (Home Assistant was previously called Hass.io).

That also uses Docker :wink:

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Does it mean I have to use either a Raspberry Pi or some huge virtualisation software on my Linux machine? I tried to avoid this as applying vmware to a 10 year old PC in order to run HA does not sound so well… :worried:

Do you mean when Raspberry Pi or the virtualisation software runs the image there will be docker who slows down the more or less limited host hardware (in my case)? :thinking:

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There’s more options than just those two - have a look.

The Home Assistant (with add-ons) install method uses Docker. Docker doesn’t slow anything down - at least not enough that you’ll be able to measure unless you’re on a Pi Zero (where, you’ll still have significant difficulty measuring it).

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