Newbie with a looot of doubts

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@Paulo_Nobrega

So i have now a raspberry pi b+ that I am at this moment trying to install hassio to experiment.

That’s the best way to learn. Welcome.

@Paulo_Nobrega

Can I use all my stuff with hassio?

Yes.

@Paulo_Nobrega

I need to get something else?

No. But you might want to once you discover the possibilities.

@Paulo_Nobrega

Is it better to add all the devices to ST and connect ST to hassio or just ditch ST?

I don’t use smarthings so someone else might comment on this. But I believe the post below answers your question.

Smarter SmartThings with MQTT and Home Assistant

This is a guest post by Home Assistant users Jeremiah Wuenschel and St. John Johnson. So you own a SmartThings Hub. You probably bought it when you were looking to get into the whole Home Automation hobby because it worked with pretty much everything and offered you the ability to automate anything. After a week of ownership, you realized that building dashboards and automating required writing way more Groovy then you expected. Then one day you were browsing reddit and discovered the amazingn…

@Paulo_Nobrega

Or with hassio and (still to arrive) xiaomi gateway I could control everything?

You can indeed control devices through your xiaomi gateway as well.

Think of Home Assistant as a hub for hubs. But that is selling it a bit short. It can do a lot more.