Okay… Where to begin.
I’m venturing into Linux, Docker, Home Assistant for some months now. Even though I have affinity with programming (I’m a freelance developer) I never understood all the flavours of Home Assistant, until now.
As I understand, you got basically 4 methods to run it.
I’m running Home Assistant, from whenever I started, on Ubuntu Desktop 19.10 inside a Docker installation. I never looked at the supervisor stuff, nor the add-ons. But now I would like to have those add-ons. Looking at the bottom of this page, it says:
Add-ons are only available if you’ve used the Home Assistant installer. If you installed Home Assistant using any other method then you cannot use add-ons (but you can achieve the same result manually).
The question is simple: how can this be done manually?
I’m running: homeassistant/home-assistant:2020.12.1
Let’s assume I want to have the Samba addon running on my docker installation…
Side note: I downloaded the .qcow2 image and installed that one on my Proxmox server, it works as expected, but I cannot easily backup my old install on docker and restore it on that one. Copying the files manually, also does not show me my lovelace dashboard as how I had it before. I also would not like to go this route as I need an additional VM just for Home Assistant. Now everything is centralised on that Ubuntu VM (pihole, nodered, zoneminder, guacamole, heimdall, portainer, …).