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Re:Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi by dheera on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:47AM (#30180032)
I also hate that you have to install it as an OS or VM to be fully featured.

If you use the docker version it is crippled with no "supervisor" mode.

Also every now and then a light or switch will go greyed out in HA, their official apps still work, and I have to restart HA to be able to use it in HA again. Pretty annoying when you get home after a long day, soaked in rain, fumbling in the dark to turn on lights and now you have to fumble more to restart the damn server before you can use your lights.

Re:Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi by easton on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @12:04PM (#30180340)
Supervisor mode is basically operating system configuration stuff (DNS, audio, etc.) telemetry for the dev team, and health checking: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2020/09/16/supervisor-joi.... (Unless I'm missing something?)

It seems fine that this isn't available in docker, since you can do all of this via docker and your host's configuration system. It would be nice to have a GUI for it, but if you need a GUI then you probably aren't running HA via docker, you used their image.

Re:Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi by janitha on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:56AM (#30180201)
How is the container version crippled?

An anecdotal data point, but I've been running the home-assistant container image on k8s without any issue, and I have a lot of integrations.

Re:Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi by sam345 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:25AM (#30189348)
Same here. Running on a pi 3 with nodered, both in docker containers. Works perfectly and reliably with hundreds of entities, numerous automations, etc. Just make sure you have an official pi ac adapter and boot off an SSD drive not SD card otherwise you will have problems.
Re:Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi by dheera on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:57AM (#30180211)
You can't run HACS, supervisor mode, Kelvin-sun matching plugin ...
Re:Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi by giobox on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @04:31PM (#30184339)
I'm running HACS in the container release right now, it's worked for a long time. So long as you have your HA configuration folder as a volume etc it will preserve across restarts/upgrades.

I'd go as far as to argue the (officially supported!) container release is the best way to get a production quality install of HA - containers are a great way to package and release complex web apps like HA. Mines automatically updates itself every time new container image released, has done so with no intervention from me for over a year. With the container lifecycle/config, you don't really need Supervisor mode either.

To say it is crippled is nonsense, it is literally one of the two officially recommended install paths:

> https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/

Official support for Docker release in HACS:

> https://hacs.xyz/docs/setup/download#home-assistant-containe...

Re:Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi by sam345 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:27AM (#30189364)
Totally agree. I use the docker containers and persistent volumes and works great. No loss of function,.
Re:Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi by lookingsideways on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @12:44PM (#30181026)
HACS works in a container, or is there specific functionality of it that doesn't work? I've been using it inside a Docker HA container on a Pi without issue.