I’m working on getting HA up and running on a RPi with Ubuntu MATE. I’ve done some tests and everything works fine BUT have one last question before I install HA for the final time. If I install HA in a virtualenv, does everything else need to be installed in the same virtualenv? For example, if I want to install Mosquitto, does it have to go in the HA virtualenv or can it be installed in the host OS or another ve?
New guy so thanks!
Virtualenv is a python thing. Usually all HA components install their dependency and needed modules on their own into the current virtualenv in which HA is running. Except if the documentation for that component states otherwise.
Hope this helps 
~Cheers
Thanks @PhyberApex! Helps very much. I just wanted to make sure that type of configuration wasn’t limiting or making future component installations overly difficult to manage. I’m probably just overthinking it.