So I’m a newbie with HA. I have been playing with it for a while on my Pi5 and after some unsuccessful installations and setup of ESPHOME + Xiaozhi ball and after looking on some Youtube tutorials I saw that there is another version called “Supervised” and had some more cool features (ESPHome on overview, Store etc.) which I wanted to try and so I installed it. Unfortunately after installing it and realizing that the support is stopping for that and having some broken YAML automation fails (they worked perfectly on Core version), I decided to switch back. So clean installation back again (that happened 2nd Feb 2026). Where in a good surprising way after the finishing of docker installation I got a NEW overview that looked much nicer! And I said nice update. I fixed all my automations and overview looked really nice. So I had a final task. I had another SSD sitting around and wanted it to use it as a main drive for my Pi5. Unfortunately after the immigration I lost the new layout. Core
2026.1.3 Frontend 20260107.2 seems to be the latest and I update in HA doesnt work as this is a docker installation. Can I get some help restoring my new layout? Was it a beta?
You’ve mixed three different install types it’s hard to tell.
Docker (container) v. Core v supervised should not give you visual differences except that container does not include the supervisor (in haos) so therefore backup/restore and addons (apps after next version) won’t be there. They’ve already covered supervised comes with no end user support.
(read: with container you’ll be missing lots of things helpful to a newbie ans supervised is not supported.)
That said from supervised >> haos is a simple backup, restore job.
So like previous why not haos. (like supervised but supported)