rah@feddit.uk to homeassistant@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoWhy is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages?message-squaremessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down133
arrow-up1-5arrow-down1message-squareWhy is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages?rah@feddit.uk to homeassistant@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square69fedilink
minus-squarerah@feddit.ukOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down7·edit-28 months ago the Home Assistant .deb distro package Firstly, that’s a .deb but it’s not from a distro. Secondly, that .deb doesn’t contain Home Assistant, it contains some “Supervised” which runs the Home Assistant Docker container: https://github.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer/blob/8dbfda2221b955dc810827285c5ac874eb0b70d9/homeassistant-supervised/usr/bin/ha#L10
Firstly, that’s a .deb but it’s not from a distro. Secondly, that .deb doesn’t contain Home Assistant, it contains some “Supervised” which runs the Home Assistant Docker container:
https://github.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer/blob/8dbfda2221b955dc810827285c5ac874eb0b70d9/homeassistant-supervised/usr/bin/ha#L10