Hassio raspberrypi and mqtt bridge

[insight (kaushik)]

Hi,

I’ve installed hassio on raspberry pi 3 B following the instructions and it works fine. Now, i have samsung smartthings and i found the below link

Smarter SmartThings with MQTT and Home Assistant

This is a guest post by Home Assistant users Jeremiah Wuenschel and St. John Johnson. So you own a SmartThings Hub. You probably bought it when you were looking to get into the whole Home Automation hobby because it worked with pretty much everything and offered you the ability to automate anything. After a week of ownership, you realized that building dashboards and automating required writing way more Groovy then you expected. Then one day you were browsing reddit and discovered the amazingn…

to make the smart things to work with hassio but hassio doesn’t allow me to install anything else on the raspberrypi because it is a software running on raspberrypi unlike stretch or lite.

I also noticed at the bottom in the above link that they are yet to modify it for raspberry pi i.e running the broker on raspberry pi.

My question is :

should i go ahead and run hassio in the virtual environment and two docker on the raspberry pi stretch os ? wouldn’t that be heavy?

or is there a way i can run it on the existing hassio system?

thank you