Or you can potentially stick with a single pi and use ubuntu+docker. I have raspberry pi 4 running HA in docker and other services alongside (mysql, mqtt, asterisk, samba shares, apache) with no performance issues.
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The commercial alternative is building a house of cards on proprietary standards and closed systems held together by a p/e ratio that can crumble any time without forewarning with the flick of a switch from its creators whenever the bottom line on a balance sheet doesnât meet some arbitrary target you have no control over.
At least with open source you can fix it yourself - or learn how to do so. Basing everything on open industry standards like MQTT is a solid foundation for that.
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Who is âtheyâ? Trace back the source. The original authors in relation to rpi gpio were @sfam and @rmkraus
I donât think either have contributed to HA for a long time.
So who are these people that have dropped support for integrations they put there in the first place?
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Which is why I said:
Why is there a need to remove rpi_gpio, if it works. Fine donât support it, but donât remove it. Just like some guys here my entire alarm system uses it. You guys promote usage of raspberry pi, and now we will have to buy / tinker with additional stuff to make it work again.
Itâs like if I have a smart TV that has HDMI ports on the back that Iâve been using for years and now they are being discontinued and I have to figure out what dongles to buy just to keep using my plugged-in devices again. Streamlining means making things easier to use, this is the opposite of that
I get it you donât want to deal with it and maintain it, can you at least migrate them to HACS or something and make them custom integrations? That way 1100+ people (since not everyone shares analytics) are not left hanging in 4 months?
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A developer has already announced that he will move the integration to HACS so you will be able to use it there. An alternative is to use mqtt-io.
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Yes, but itâs still more than 1100 people. Is it easy for you to talk about this, because you are not among these happy users?
I made a custom PCB HAT for cooling Raspberry Pi. How will I control it if I use Home Assistant OS?
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They removed a lot of from hass binary and made hass unusable for normal users 
--pid-file
--daemon
They want to piss of users which are not using paid docker
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That is good news. Maybe next time you should askaround first⌠it looks like you donât quite understand the fundamental difference of mqtt-io and other âwaysâ compared to hardwired gpio.
For us noncoding hardware guys rpi gpio was god sent, the main reason I swiched to HA.
It is not about will or want, it is the difference between can do and canât.
Anyways, this move took away the trust. I still think this is the opposite of what you wrote about Open Home.
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Part of an open home is a secure home as well, and a lack of a maintainer to ensure that modules keep up-to-date with potentially-breaking changes means either a chance for bugs or a chance for security problems.
MQTT-IO appears to be relatively straightforward, like yaml config, from a perusing of it, including support for a large number of sensors that were natively supported, if not all and then some. Whilst it appears that if youâre using HA OS there is not presently an add-on module, it seems like it would be trivial for those maintainers to add it.
And has been said, someone else is taking up the torch for the existing module under the community add-on store, which seems ideal to keep using.
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WTF is payd docker?
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And they have 4 months to do it 
Docker is now paid for âcomercial useâ.
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Yes I know, but what TF does âpaydâ mean (OK I know it was a spelling mistake), and how is home assistant commercial use?
Even if I install it at my office to mind a few things, who is gonna know?
Does someone think @balloob has shares in the company that owns docker?
Use another container runtime engine, if you are doing Home Assistant on a commercial scale.
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Pray tell us who would have maintained it. If it had broken in the future, what would you have done?
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No I am not using it for commercial use 
In general docker is a useless âlevelâ between hass and OS which is from may point of view give us more cons than pros.
Hass is great product and I like it! Many thanks to all developers but if they are forcing users to have to use docker that is pissing me.
My point of view is opposite to yours. Anyhow, since you are not doing commercial use, the recently changed pricing model for Docker does not affect you.
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You have 4 months. Maintain it. If you do, youâll possibly change the devâs minds.
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