Can we have HA with Supervisor for Raspbian?

Naro · April 24, 2022, 4:18pm

There is a cloning tool within Raspien that Debian doesn’t seam to have that I use to clone the drive that HA is installed on that way I have a backup that can be replaced fast of the drive fails. However HA says Raspbian is an unsupported version.
Seams like everything works fine in Raspbian, well all except for the Supervisor store; so it would be nice if Raspbien is also supposed.

finity · April 24, 2022, 11:11pm

Unsupported shouldn’t mean anything except you won’t get “official” support if something goes wrong.

I run an unsupported HA Supervised version as a test platform and it runs fine. Even the supervisor stuff works.

And this FR is moot from the start since the decision was made a long time ago to only support HA Supervised on Debian.

And if you run anything anything at all, outside of the Supervisor control then you will be unsupported as well regardless of the OS.

tom_l · April 25, 2022, 1:36am

Closed. Please see:

github.com

home-assistant/architecture/blob/ab83332fcaf582031e89e328af50d43cd47cb972/adr/0012-define-supported-installation-method.md

# 0012. Define supported installation method

Date: 2020-06-03

## Status

Accepted

## Context

If you look at our documentation, it’s all over the place. Install it in Docker, in a VM, on a NAS or on one of the many Linux distributions.

The reason we have this many guides is that since the start of the Home Assistant website, we have always gladly accepted every contribution to get Home Assistant running on any platform. The more the merrier!

However, in software, nothing ever stays the same. All software gets updates to fix bugs, fix security vulnerabilities, improve performance or to add new features. As a software application you need to grow along or else you get stuck with an insecure system.

So as Home Assistant grows and evolves, some of these installation guides became outdated and stopped working. We wouldn’t even know it was broken until a user raised an issue. But when they do, we wouldn’t know how to fix it unless we could get a hold of the original contributor.

This can be frustrating. Any guide on our official website should lead to a working system. A system that not only works today, but also tomorrow.

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and

github.com

home-assistant/architecture/blob/ab83332fcaf582031e89e328af50d43cd47cb972/adr/0014-home-assistant-supervised.md

# 0014. Installation method: Home Assistant Supervised

Date: 2020-06-03

## Status

Accepted

## Context

Define a supported installation method as per [ADR-0012](https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/blob/master/adr/0012-define-supported-installation-method.md).

## Decision

This installation method provides the full Home Assistant experience on a regular operating system. This means, all components from the Home Assistant method are used, except for the Home Assistant Operating System. This system will run the Home Assistant Supervisor. The Supervisor is not just an application, it is a full appliance that manages the whole system. It will clean up, repair or reset settings to default if they no longer match expected values.

By not using the Home Assistant Operating System, the user is responsible for making sure that all required components are installed and maintained. Required components and their versions will change over time. Home Assistant Supervised is provided as-is as a foundation for community supported do-it-yourself solutions. We only accept bug reports for issues that have been reproduced on a freshly installed, fully updated Debian with no additional packages.

This method is considered advanced and should only be used if one is an expert in managing a Linux operating system, Docker and networking.

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