You could redirect all outgoing calls to the google NTP servers on your network to your own local NTP server. People do that all the time for hardcoded DNS over in the PiHole community.
I gave it a shot and installed hassio on raspbian. In fact I’m not forced anymore to use google services! This is a big plus for privacy and I have now more freedom in my setup!
I also added a RTC now to my (raspbian lite based) hassio installation and can tell it works! You just follow the tutorials for installation and home assistant grabs the time from the host system (raspbian) and this one comes from the RTC then or a configured (and available) ntp server
No idea. As I stated before, HASSIO is a poor example of a completely offline Home Assistant install. Regular docker, that you have control over, would be a much better option, and then you can mount anything you like.
I generally agree with this and use regular HA in Docker myself but the allure of the hassio add-ons does have me wanting to switch over at times.
The problem with non-hassio is that I just don’t know how to create my own dockerfiles to run some of the apps that don’t already have a (good/working) docker image available.
As an example, I was looking at the NUT UPS add-on recently to try to figure out how to create a working docker image but it’s beyond me how the dockerfile is created by the author of the add-on and how I can make this work outside of hassio.
You can use any nut ups docker container and accomplish the same thing. You’re merely connecting to an IP/host running the software. It’s over a tcp/IP connection.
Just use a premade docker image.
Get out of that mindset. It’s just another application running on the network.
I thought before the limitation was the hassOS shipped with HASSIO. Because hassOS had no way to install picoTTS. As mentioned in this thread the idea would be to install HASSIO on raspbian and install picoTTS in raspbian (exactly what I did). I don’t have a clue why it doesn’t work now…