Add ons - how to set?

[pw44 (Paulo Ven)]

Dear All,

i’m a total beginner by home assistant and have some very basic and maybe stupid questions .

environment:

ubuntu headless server, home assistant installedas venv.

works.

after digging, cound not find the answer to:

• add ons - how to install?
• where to find the listing off all add ons?
• how to manually install an add on, by not having it in the menu?

Thx in advance!

[tom_l]

You need to install home assistant or home assistant supervised to be able to use addons. This feature is not available for the version you have installed (home assistant core). See here:

Installation Methods & Community Guides Wiki

We recently announced that we wanted to deprecate the generic Home Assistant installer. We discovered that the installation method was more popular than expected and we put that plan on hold. The feedback to our announcement also included that the preferred installation methods are not well documented and that it’s confusing because there are also so many other installation guides on home-assistant.io, some great, some outdated and no longer correct or even missing. Today I want to take a ste…

[pw44 (Paulo Ven)]

Thx for the answer.

So in understand i shall remove the home assistant core and install home assistant.

I don’t want to have doker. Is it possible without docker? If yes, where can i find a guide (there are so many, and it’s quite confusing)?

Thx in advance

[tom_l]

In the community guides forum category:

Installing Home Assistant Supervised on Ubuntu 18.04.4

This guide is now deprecated and will no longer be updated or maintained. It is highly recommended to follow the Debian 10 guide HERE to have a supported Supervised install. There is no need to use Ubuntu and continued changes being made to Home Assistant Supervised make its continued use at your own risk and it may fail to work at any time. Please do not post for support if you face an issue. Ubuntu 18.04 does not have the minimum version of network-manager required by for a Supervis…

[pw44 (Paulo Ven)]

ok, this uses docker, which i want to avoid.

manually installing add ons (downloading from the repo),? any guide?

thx again!

[francisp (Francis)]

No docker, no add-ons.

[pw44 (Paulo Ven)]

ok, i have node red installed and home assistant core. how to integrate it? any way?

as i understand, add ons are modules that gues home assiatnt with other programs.

am i correct?

[petro]

Add-ons are docker containers of various software. If you want to install said software outside a docker container, you need to follow the directions for the software package. You should create a separate post in the node red section of the forums if you have questions on using node-red with home assistant core.