If I am not mistaken the tradeoff is losing add-ons but being able to install other services.
So… what is your experience? Are add-ons useful/common for your use case?
If I am not mistaken the tradeoff is losing add-ons but being able to install other services.
So… what is your experience? Are add-ons useful/common for your use case?
Home assistant OS is also my recommendation. Add-ons are pretty important IMO. Plus for something I am planning to try and have 100% uptime and controlling my home smart devices I don’t want it containerized and at the mercy of docker.
Currently using 15 add-ons myself.
Add ons are docker containers. The main advantage of HA OS is that the add on docker images are configured for you vs you having to edit a few parameters.
Also, there isn’t really any inherent stability difference between HA OS and docker. If anything, i’d give the slight nod to docker running on a stable Linux flavor, but YMMV. I’ve been running the HA docker via Unraid for years alongside ~30 other docker “add ons” (many have nothing to do with HA) without any stability issues.