I have used my Raspberry Pi with IOTstack and HA so far. My stack consisted of influxDB, Grafana, Node-red, Portainer, Mosquitto. And then Home Assistant is installed, however not as a container, you need to go via separate menu option to install HA. I do now realize that within HA I can add all above apps as add-on’s and got confused. What is better solution?
- Download and burn Hassio image to SD card and add apps influxDB, Grafana, Node-red, Portainer, Mosquitto like as addons;
- Download and install Raspberry OS, install IOTstack add containers influxDB, Grafana, Node-red, Portainer, Mosquitto and then install HA, but not as a container.
What are pros and cons for these options, how to choose the right way? Or are those both methods equal? I would consider following arguments:
- System stability and performance;
- Back up simplicity and possible restore simplicity.
- Anything else?