Is it true there will not be a supervisor in the future?

123 · August 15, 2022, 1:41pm

Only the founder of the Home Assistant project can definitely answer that question. However, based on past events, it seems unlikely it will be deprecated in the future.

Here’s the community’s response to the first (and only) time there was an attempt to eliminate support for Home Assistant Supervised installation.

The ultimate decision was a compromise and official support for Home Assistant Supervised installation was limited to just one distribution of Linux (Debian) and not for any other. The decision was officially documented in ADR-0014.

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# 0014. Installation method: Home Assistant Supervised

Date: 2020-06-03

## Status

Accepted

## Context

Define a supported installation method as per [ADR-0012](https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/blob/master/adr/0012-define-supported-installation-method.md).

## Decision

This installation method provides the full Home Assistant experience on a regular operating system. This means, all components from the Home Assistant method are used, except for the Home Assistant Operating System. This system will run the Home Assistant Supervisor. The Supervisor is not just an application, it is a full appliance that manages the whole system. It will clean up, repair or reset settings to default if they no longer match expected values.

By not using the Home Assistant Operating System, the user is responsible for making sure that all required components are installed and maintained. Required components and their versions will change over time. Home Assistant Supervised is provided as-is as a foundation for community supported do-it-yourself solutions. We only accept bug reports for issues that have been reproduced on a freshly installed, fully updated Debian with no additional packages.

This method is considered advanced and should only be used if one is an expert in managing a Linux operating system, Docker and networking.

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