I currently am running home assistant directly on my raspberry pi 3. I’m “stuck” on 0.91.0 because I’m a bit worried about upgrading python from 3.5.3. I have a number of other components on my pi that may have dependencies on an older python version and I don’t really want to refactor all of that stuff. I have a pi4 sitting doing next to nothing, and I want to migrate a few things from my 3 to the 4 anyway, so it certainly seems like the time to re-evaluate how I’ve been using home-assistant. I’ve never used docker before, but I think that would basically answer a lot of my struggles to date.
Is hass.io basically a docker container? What would I lose by going to hass.io? I assume I can still install items in the custom-components folder? I can still directly edit the .yaml files, and am not restricted to the love-lace GUI to make these changes, right?
I’m having a hard time getting my head around this because I read some blog that basically said “why to use docker instead of hass.io” and I thought hass.io was a container. I’m assuming for me, that hass.io would be the right thing, but since I’ve been running home-assistant outside of that for a while, I’m a little worried about what I would lose. Thanks!