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Debating between Home Assistant OS or Docker for Raspberry Pi 4 (discuss.tchncs.de)
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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?

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[–] Panron 1 points 2 years ago

I started out running HA in a docker container on a NUC (everything configured in a docker compose file). Documentation around everything was pretty poor at the time (I'm not sure if this has improved since then), so I ended up feeling too confused on where to even begin expanding from vanilla HA.

I ended up picking up a RPi 4 (and SSD and enclosure) and have been happily running HA OS since then on the Pi. If that ever fails on me, I may go back to a docker instance.

I'd recommend you try whichever is the most convenient first (probably the docker approach, unless you already have the Pi on hand). Give it a month or two, try to setup up a few things you're interested in, and then decide if you're satisfied with that setup or want to try the other option.