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Home assistant's add-on store has a lot of these ready to go. https://community.home-assistant.io/tags/hassio-repository https://community.home-assistant.io/ta

• OJFord 7y ago
  I didn't know HA had plugins like this, seems weird, HA itself is one of these things, not some sort of parent thing to which they're deployed. That's how I see it anyway.
  • JonnyaiR 7y ago
    Hass.io is homeassistants distribution for raspberry pi (and I think other devices as well) which runs docker and home assistant itself. The plugins allow to extend homeassistant with standalone software e.g. MariaDB or mosquitto. Those programs aren't part of or written for homeassistant but are accessed through network.
  • organsnyder 7y ago
    Depends on how you're running it. When I was running hass.io on a RaPi, I used a few of those plugins (including PiHole). Now that I'm running HA in a VM on a bigger machine, it makes more sense to run those services as separate VMs alongside it.
    • hunter2_ 7y ago
      I've been trying to decide between these options myself. I was never happy with the slow restarts and potential for microSD failure when I ran HA on a RaPi3 (years ago, legacy AIO on stock Raspbian) so I haven't kept up with it and now want to start from scratch on something like a NUC. Do I make Hass.io a VM along side other VMs for PiHole, my LAMP website, etc? It will be idle so much that low power/heat during idle is significantly important, but I love the simplicity of reverting an isolated service back to a snapshot after I break it. I suspect a single OS on metal with each of these in a Docker container would be more efficient, but I haven't played with containers before.
      • organsnyder 7y ago
        I have a single machine running FreeNAS that's running all of my home services at the moment (I know it's not the best hypervisor, but I wanted my NAS on bare metal and I can't justify a separate dedicated server). I have Ubuntu running in a VM running Docker, and installed Home Assistant using the official instructions for this setup[1]. PiHole is so light-weight and relatively low-risk, you could easily run it on the same VM as Home Assistant if you'd like. I keep separate VMs for everything out of habit. I would isolate the LAMP site as much as possible, especially if it's publicly available—potentially even keeping it off of the same network as everything else. [1] https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/installation/docker/ https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/installation/docker/
  • smashah 7y ago
    It's definitely a parent thing. Give it a go, even if it's just to try and easily deploy these add-ons.