Production and Sandbox for Testing

Configuration
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Hi All,

Ok, so i am getting to a point where my Home Assistant is becoming a part of the whole house. Up until now, i have focussed onjust my room upstairs, but i need to start implementing automatons ans templates throughout the rest of the house. Clearly i am still learning.

Question - Is their a way, or has anyone else set up two instances of Home Assistant? One for Production and one for Testing.

Basically, i want one to be able to develop new features and improvements, without affecting the whole house, and when i’m ready, deploy that improvement to the production instance.

Am i overthinking? Is this possible?

P.S. My housemate and his GF are awesome, but when something doesn’t work, they just start flicking switches, which annoys me, and reduces there confidence in the system.

My config consists of:
Raspeberry Pi’s
Tasmota RGB Leds
Hue Lighting
Conbee for Hue Switches

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Are you running windows on a laptop or something? If so, turn on WSL2, install docker followed by Home assistant container.

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Running a Pi3b+ standalone with HASSOS

I have a Synology NAS that i was considering using, just a bit nervous to make the jump to Docker. What is the benefit to running Hass in a container?

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You don’t have a spare computer lying around, like a laptop? Apple or PC?

Don’t touch your current working system. Use a separate one.

The benefit of container is that it’s easy to install, start, and stop. And it won’t impact whatever system you are running on. But you wont be able to have it on your production equipment if you’re running hassio.