I am still very new to Home Assistant and first started out installing it on Debian in the “env” install method and I loved it. It picked up so much stuff in my local network it was amazing. Playing with it for a few weeks I found that I wanted to do something, but I needed to have the Supervisor t…

There is, it is called home assistant core. [image] Home Assistant Installation Methods Community Guides Home Assistant Installation Methods Name Required Skills Includes Supervisor Supports Add-ons Supports Snapshots Includes Operating System Uses Docker Method O…

Yes, but Home Assistant Core is missing Supervisor and Add-ons, so what is the point really? This would appear to be the version I had installed initially, and this is where my confusion was when I first started as to do something, I don’t recall exactly what I was trying to do at the time, but it …

[image] girkers: I am talking something that has the OS included with all the requisite packages, download image and run install away you go. Then you want Home assistant OS.

I read all your posts in this topic and it seems clear to me that you made several incorrect assumptions about the installation methods. Did you read the documentation’s section on how to install Home Assistant and was it responsible for the confusion that it has caused you? If the answer is yes, w…

Its mostly about dependencies. Addons are not plugins or configurationof home assistant but mostly other applications etc with their own dependencies. And if you start installing a lot of software on linux with dependencies it is easy to fall into “dependency hell” where one dependency prevents …

People, thanks for the replies. @123 I will be up front and honest and didn’t really read much of the installation stuff, if I did I don’t remember it. I am more of a kinetic learner and because I had my own preconceived ideas on how I wanted to do things I went the way I was most comfortable with. …

[image] wuench: It is more work but I prefer to have more control over things than the full HA Supervised method. It’s pretty much impossible to have more control than HA Supervised method…

[image] girkers: So I freely admit I didn’t read the all the documentation but I don’t honestly think it would have helped me understand the difference in the installation methods as my thinking is irrespective of how the software is installed how you access and configured it should be the same. …

So what you are saying is that depending on which way you install the software will depend on which way you configure it. On reflection I did read the installation documentation here: https://www.home-assistant.io/hassio/installation/ downloading the VMDK and I was able to get the software installe…

Docker vs running natively on OS

Installation Home Assistant OS

tom_l July 3, 2020, 8:17am 2

There is, it is called home assistant core.