On: The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing

[johnmaguire]

I don't think that's really fair - the recommended way to run Home Assistant is to run HA OS (on a VM or dedicated machine, like a Raspberry Pi), or to run it in a Docker container.

The "Supervised" installation (i.e. installing Home Assistant on top of an existing Linux install) is doable, but not preferred.

https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/

[katbyte → johnmaguire]

Iirc they explicitly say don’t / recommend against it. I mean I still did but it definitely isn’t the way most people will install it at all

[raman325 → katbyte]

We tried, but the community wanted to keep the installation method, so we kept it around.

[katbyte → raman325]

personally i did it because i like my servers to be debian & i wanted it to match all the other VMs i have running

so thanks for keeping it around :)