I’ve tried the above which is impractical. Has anyone found a way?
Hello @derwentender, can you elaborate on what you are trying to achieve? “Home Assistant OS” and “balenaOS” are both operative systems so you can only flash one of them at a time on a fin/pi.
Hello tmigone. Thank you for your reply. It’s appreciated. I’ve learned HA on the OS version. In order to utilise balena cloud, however, I now find that I have to use balena OS with HA Core. Are there any compromises or loss of functionality by using HA Core? I respect that there is no Supervisor function. I like balena cloud and it is the way forward for our small project
Hello @derwentender , You are correct, the container version of HA to use on balenaOS is just the HA Core without the HA Supervisor. The HA Supervisor is completely optional - you can see a list of its features here: The Supervisor joins the party - Home Assistant If you don’t need any of these then you should be set. Also, in case it helps, here is a minimal balenaOS HA Core installation example: Simple Pi 3 Home Assistant on Balena · GitHub
Thank you for your reply, alanb128. You mention that HA Supervisor is optional. As we like the features and extra scope, is there an option to add HA Supervisor to our existing balena OS with HA Core set up? It would be ideal or is it just wishful thinking by me?
@derwentender I don’t think you can add the HA Supervisor to HA Core on balenaOS (or any container platform.) The HA Supervisor is provided as part of Home Assistant Operating System. Instructions are available to install it on your own operating system, but based on their strict requirements: architecture/0014-home-assistant-supervised.md at master · home-assistant/architecture · GitHub I don’t think it would work using balenaOS. (However if you do try and get it working please let us know!)
Thank you for the clarification, alanb128. It sounds messy. We’ll learn to live with it.