It seems clear home assistant and hassio are 2 different “entities” that are meant to work together but, unfortunately , the installation instructions are not clear about adding hassio environment when/after installing homeassistant using pip therefore I am missing the hassio tab
How do one add hassio environment to a pip installed homeassistant ?
Can anyone please clarify and/or provide links to documentation for doing the following
install HA +HASSIO on a Linux server using pip and virtual environment
install HA + HASSIO on a linux server using containers
Hassio is ONE installation method of Home Assistant. Home Assistant is Home Assistant. Add-ons from hassio are other applications that work with Home Assistant, or are other services. They are all able to be replicated with any other installation method with some work and effort on your part.
addons are a Hassio-ONLY thing. Home Assistant is still Home Assistant, and everything thing you see in “integrations/components” page on the website are available on every instance of Home Assistant no matter how you installed it.
applications
Correct.
Exactly.
Basically understand that Home Assistant is the application. Hassio is one way to install home assistant in your network. The others are home assistant docker, or python virtual environment. Functionality of Home Assistant itself is the same across the board. Add-ons are merely other applications that ADD functionality, but are not required for Home Assistant to work as Home Assistant.