Migration from Home Assistant Container to Home Assistant Supervised

Installation
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I initially installed as home assistant container, only to find i couldn’t install addons, which obviously is a deal breaker. So now i have followed the instructions and setup HA Supervised, but now I am needing some help with a few things:

  1. Is it possible for me to import my configuration.yaml/db from the container installation into HA Supervised? If so, how?
  2. How do i run my frigate container under the supervisor?
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  1. Yes, use the new (as of 2022.4) backup feature to back up your existing Container install, and restore that to your Supervised install
  2. As an add-on - as you have to do with all other software

PS: I hope you’re following the requirements for Supervised.

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RE 1: I stopped the hassio-supervisor.service, but the container is still running. I can still reach the web interface. How do i stop it? (I need to stop it so that i can run the old container and do a backup)
Nevermind, I figured it out. Just needed to stop app armor, then stop all containers. Then rename my old container to homeassistant_old. then was able to start it, run back up, then restart supervisor and all containers

RE 2: Ok, thanks for the clarification. I re examined the instructions from Frigate, and I realized that with HA Supervised, I can install the addon and just mount my NAS following the instructions and then I won’t have any problem. I was under mistaken impression that it was required to run Frigate only as a container with HA, but with Supervised its not the case. So i will take that advice. Thanks

RE PS: You’ve got too much faith in humanity :innocent:

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I ended up leaving frigate running as a container, and installing the frigate proxy addon. this way i can keep complete control of frigate, which is somewhat of a necessity. all is working fine, thankfully. Thank you for your pointers @Tinkerer