Which Home Assistant install is right for you?

You strike me as the type of guy that can hold a full conversation in assembly language.

Man, this is the video I could've really used when I was getting into HA. It's a great bit of software, but they really lack in explaining these basic things in an understandable way.

That intro was crazy, just 25 seconds of bro talking DIRECTLY to me lol

Not sure I understand it perfectly yet, but this IS the video I was looking for. The home assistant documentation itself is rather vague about the differences. I have watched other videos about the same topic but sometimes one person's words land while another's don't. Thanks for the video.

Thank you so much for your time making these Docker / HA series videos, I have a mini PC that I have Ubuntu on, and decided to add HA as a container on docker. Being new to HA, I first struggled for not being able to install addon onto HA, but after watching your videos it opens up a tons of possiblilities to my current setup. Again, appreciated!

Can’t wait!! This series is so informative! Thanks for sharing!

Although I don't have home automation I'm interested in it. So I'm glad to have found this channel where I can learn more.

Your videos are top-grade! 🏅 I like how you're explaining advanced topics in an understandable way. I hope that many people will take full control of their system because of your videos. The vendor lock-in products (e.g. Philips Hue) are an easy way too start, but they're too expensive, less flexible/powerful and Home Assistant is simply way more fun! Keep up the good work! 💪🏅

Looking forward to your series 👍

Nice and clean explanation about the difference. Finally! Thank you for this. I run HA OS in a VM on my Unraid NAS. I also run multiple containers on the same NAS. Because I thought I would miss out on all the Add-ons, I didn't think of making HA a container as well. And went straight to a VM with HA OS. Now I can't wait for your video's on how to migrate from HA OS to a VM :) Keep up the great work!

Looking forward to the series! I run HA in a docker container via Unraid

Quick correction to: "You kind of have to dedicate an entire computer to running home assistant OS". It's entirely viable to use a VM to run homeassistant, either through a bare metal hypervisor like proxmox, or an embedded one like virtualbox. Running home assistant OS inside a VM is supported, stable, and frees up the system. It does require a little more technical knowledge to set up, though.

Wow, I've been using ha for a long time, and this video explained so much I didn't understand, thanks!

Looking forward to the series! I run HA in a docker container via Unraid , so I assume most of what you will cover will apply to an Unraid environment as well. Any chance you could add in any hints for Unraid users where things might be slightly different? On the whole, I've been very happy running HA as a non-supervised container. As a matter of fact, I try to run everything I can outside of HA to avoid the single point of failure (Yeah, I know Unraid is itself a LARGE SPoF, but you get the point). For example, I run my ZWave stuff through Zwavejs2mqtt rather than a Zwavejs integration to HA. Is that a crazy approach? While I've worked my way through a few problem spots, I'm always looking for better ways to run this setup.

Love this, perfect timing!

I can't wait for the next one! I have an old pc I would love to put docker and ha on!

The HomeAssistant website didnt make the distintion between addons and integrations very clear so I thought that the docker version would be terrible. Thank you for clarifying this.

The biggest issue I find with Home Assistant OS when talking about Frigate and Plex integrations that require a lot of storage is adding additional drives to Home Assistant. It's just a little too difficult as of today to add external storage to Home Assistant OS That's why I prefer those things running standalone. Add-ons like Deconz however are quite handy if you want everything in one place.

This docker install would be great along that you also provided a stack/compose that includes all the necessary inage containers.

Great video thanks. Looking forward to the upcoming series. Would be interested in learning more about your use of the Coral TPU