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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I run HA OS and from my experience updating and installing add-ons is seamless. Creating backups and restoring (had to replace a corrupt SD Card a while ago) was also no issue.
Add-ons I have installed

  • Advanced SSH Terminal
  • ESP Home
  • Home Assistant Google Drive Backup
  • VS Code Server
  • Maria DB

HACS for a few integrations:

  • YT Music Player
  • Waste Collection Schedule

nothing too fancy.

I run a second Pi with an SSD for docker containers or native OS installs (gitea, drone-ci, pi-hole, etc.)