Hi, Looking at Home Assistant documentation on installation, there seems to be no instructions for installing on plain old Linux/Ubuntu. Its either R.Pi or a set of specific vm images only. Why is that? Are there up to date instructions anywhere for installing the latest version of Home Assistant …

[image] Installing Home Assistant Supervised on Ubuntu 18.04.4 Community Guides warning This guide is now deprecated and will no longer be updated or maintained. It is highly recommended to follow the Debian 10 guide HERE to have a supported Supervised install. There is n…

Thank you, very much appreciated. I came to Home Assistant a year ago, after some months of struggling, I gave up. Now I’m back and again find things very confusing. There is no official support for plain installations other than images, why? Is hass.io still a thing? I still see lots of referen…

[image] Home Assistant Installation Methods Community Guides Home Assistant Installation Methods Name Required Skills Includes Supervisor Supports Add-ons Supports Snapshots Includes Operating System Uses Docker Method OS Minimal (1) heavy_check_mark heavy_check_m…

[image] dnme: There is no official support for plain installations other than images, why? The proliferation of different install methods made it impossible for the devs to support every method. See ADR0012 . Debian is the officially supported Linux flavour as long as strict guidelines are adh…

You might also prefer to do a “Home Assistant Core” install, which is one of the supported types, but just does not include the Supervisor (I’m not even sure what Supervisor is/does). Basically, it’s a Python Virtual Environment (venv) in which HA lives and runs. The instructions for setting it up …

The second best thing to running supervised HA is in my opinion to run Home Assistant Core in a docker container. It makes for easy upgrades and no problems with dependencies and python version upgrades etc. You may then also run other applications in docker such as influxdb, grafana, node-red, appd…

Ive been down that road. Home Assistant would not let me install any addons. No Supervisor. No idea why. It was my first time to realise that there was such a concept as supervised and non-supervised. I really find it hard to understand why the developers are not supporting a version for a major…

[image] dnme: I really find it hard to understand why the developers are not supporting a version for a major OS They are. Debian, not it’s derivatives, like Ubuntu.

[image] dnme: Baffling. Not really all that baffling. Everything is based on the efforts of volunteers. The core development team serves as gatekeeper to ensure that everything submitted by volunteers, and incorporated into the product, is functional and can be supported (by them). They have…

I second this. The major benefit of supervised Is that the system will allow you to install add ons which are essentially other docker containers. If you are keen to go down the Ubuntu path then installing the home assistant core docker container is not that hard and you can then you can add whate…

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kanga_who (Jason) December 1, 2020, 10:16am 4