Noobie asks: 1) HACS and ESPHome 2) SQLite good or bad?

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(HACore 2024.8.0, as a virtual machine on a NAS)

I am sorry for this stupid question, but

  1. if I want to have HACS (Community Store) installed and running, then it is forbidden to have any other Add Ons? That’s how I read the HACS warning: “You are aware that there are no Add-Ons in HACS”.
    Is this true? So no ESPHome (which is gold to me)? Really???

  2. I read some posts of people complaining about troubles with SQLite, which, how I understand it, is the standard database engine for the internal HA db. I have MariaDB running anyway, so am I well advised to have my HA instance working with a real db server instead of the out-of-the-box SQLite?

Thanks for the help…

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Yes, but No.
You cannot have add-ons in HACS.
However, add-ons have nothing to do with HACS - they are are a part of HAOS so, if you are running HAOS, you can have both add-ons and HACS.

I’m running HA container in docker so can have HACS but not add-ons.

I’ve personally never had an issue with SQLite - i’ve been using it as my DB for years, but that isn’t to say that MariaDB isn’t better (I genuinely don’t know).

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There have been a lot of improvements. It’s not really any better any more.

There’s no real reason to use MariaDB now.

The only reason I still use it is because It would be a pain to migrate to SQLite without losing my LTS.

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