Re:Run your home on a Raspberry Pi
by snapetom on Monday May 16, 2022 @11:21AM
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Venv on core. Yes it’s the “expert” install. Yes Docker would be easier. However you can’t guarantee Docker will be supported in the future. They created then dropped Hassbian like a hot potato. In fact there are already signs Docker is falling out of grace in favor of HassOS.
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That is specifically called out by the ha team as an unsupported and not recommended type of install. So I think it's a bit of bad form to be complaining that your specific unsupported install isn't well supported (and on a free software, even worse).
It's everywhere in their documentation.
https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/ https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/raspberrypi#insta...
It's not "unsupported" if they tell you how to do it. In other forums, devs have also promised that core will "always" be an option.
It was also the only installation method just a few years ago. Then they experimented with Hassbian/HassOS/Docker, etc. Shit, I remember they had a VDI option less than two years ago. That was FIVE simultaneous installation methods they supported. They shouldn't have let it get that bad to begin with, and pruning just goes to my original point that they keep changing things because they never have any discipline in the project.