I have a Synology DS923+ as my NAS which currently runs Plex, Immich and a couple other things.

I also have a Intel NUC (8th gen) which has Proxmox on it which mainly does PiHole and HomePage. I would like to use the NUC for PiHole, Immich, Plex, HomePage and Home Assistant.

Is Proxmox the best system to use for these applications? Would it be easier to just install Debian and Docker and run everything through containers on one OS instead of splitting them all up into LXC or VMs?

I would also like the convenience of easily updating containers through a GUI. I am not afraid of SSH and CLI but it’s nice to go to a browser address and see everything in one place. Kind of like how DSM7 is set up on Synology.

  • bluGill@fedia.io
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    4 days ago

    Home Assistant insists that it must run on bare metal hardware and will not work well. This is a purely artificial limitation that home assistant puts on you. You can work around it with a lot of effort, or the limitations might not matter to you, but it is a limit to be aware of. I personally went to OpenHAB instead, but YMMV.

    • Coleslaw4145@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I’ve been running Home Assistant (HAOS) on Proxmox for years with no issues. It doesn’t need to be on bare metal. VMs work fine.

    • redlemace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      I never read such a thing. I never had that myself and run ha on proxmox since many years. on Debian OS on proxmox.

    • doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Uhhh, I have always used Docker for Home Assistant with no issues? That being said, I’m no HA power user at all - so maybe you could elaborate about the limits you’ve encountered?

      • bluGill@fedia.io
        21·
        4 days ago

        https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/ Home assistant container - the version for docker - doesn’t support add-ons. If you go through a lot of effort you can make it work, but you won’t get help. (easiest is to install some linux in the docker and then home assistant supervised on top of that)

        There is no reason HAOS couldn’t run just fine in a container (qemu not docker), but they intentionally detect that and break it (I tried, I probably could make it work but I don’t have that much time)

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      Not true at all. If you want to run Home Assistant on top of Home Assistant OS then it needs to be on bare metal or a full VM because its an OS. Running on HAOS is easy mode, but not required.