@nogooduser@rah I’m currently running it in docker, and it’s taught me a lot about docker, but it’s a hell of a technical overhead every time you want an addon.
The documentation very strongly steers you to a whole-os install, and I don’t like that, but I’m tempted. I may well succumb and pick the HA image for my raspberry Pi, start over
The one thing that was a misstep on my docker journey was that the original tutorials that I followed installed them using the command line. It’s much better to do it using a docker compose file.
@nogooduser Oh yes, I agree. Docker documentation is so random. Once I discovered that later versions of compose could inline the buildfile, I realised that was clearly the way to go. But you have to hunt through the docs to find it.
It can also be installed using docker containers but that is more difficult to manage as you have to install every component manually.
That’s not how docker works, bud.
I guess that my message wasn’t clear but by “component” I meant a home automation component.
I have the following containers in my HA installation:
And maybe others that I have forgotten.
Each had to be installed manually by adding it to my docker compose file, mapping drives, and editing config files.
Most, if not all, of them (except HA) can be installed from within HA if you’re using HAOS.
Ah, that makes a lot more sense.
Yep, that’s how my install is, running Debian, home assistant in containers (core, supervisor, more)
@nogooduser @rah I’m currently running it in docker, and it’s taught me a lot about docker, but it’s a hell of a technical overhead every time you want an addon.
The documentation very strongly steers you to a whole-os install, and I don’t like that, but I’m tempted. I may well succumb and pick the HA image for my raspberry Pi, start over
The one thing that was a misstep on my docker journey was that the original tutorials that I followed installed them using the command line. It’s much better to do it using a docker compose file.
@nogooduser Oh yes, I agree. Docker documentation is so random. Once I discovered that later versions of compose could inline the buildfile, I realised that was clearly the way to go. But you have to hunt through the docs to find it.