Hi all,
I am moving and as part of that starting my home assistant install from scratch (it’s moving to new hardware, too). I want to get some advice before installing to get an idea if what I think makes sense actually makes sense.
I’ll be running this on essentially a NUC. I went this way because I want this to also do a handful of other things, such as being a Plex media server. I am fairly technical and can handle most things that involve googling error messages.
Previously I had what is now called a Core installation (I think), basically direct installation of the python app. Worked fine, but isn’t a highly recommended method from what I can tell.
I looked at directly installing HA OS, but this seemed limiting to the other things I’d be able to use the server to do. (I wasn’t sure, though, if this is true?)
I saw HA supervisor which gives you a lot of the shinies of HA OS, but seems highly discouraged and (iirc) the devs wanted to stop supporting it. Seems good reason to use another method.
That would point to using HA Container, which seems the best option with my limited knowledge.
The main thing I wasn’t sure about is if it could make sense to run HA OS as a VM on my host machine? This would give me the full experience and still allow me to use the system for other things easily. I haven’t really mucked about with VMs much but could stumble my way through if it made sense to do so. The easy installation of addons seems very nice (right now I have manual container management of, eg, zwavejs, which I believe would get managed by HA OS), but I wasn’t sure if running VMs is a hassle.
Any thoughts on people who have done this or have more knowledge on this?
Thanks! I have read a lot of threads but at this point I’m just getting more lost in minutiae.