addon-adguard-home VS iocage-homeassistant

Yes, as stated in my first message? I have it installed as a Home Assistant Add-On.

Nice to see HA getting some love on HN. A colleague recommended it to me about 3 years ago as an alternative to Domoticz. I've migrated back than and haven't looked back since. I consider myself a real Home Assistant enthousiast. I've contributed some small amounts to the project, created and maintain my own add-ons and love to share my configuration with others.

Although most of the things currently just work, especially with the (migrated) UI integrations. Some things still feel very unfinished, like blueprints. Which was a terrific idea, but maintaining and keeping those up to date is an absolute nightmare and you will have to that yourself [1]. Same with battery powered devices. When they work, it's all great, but having to watch their battery level is just a hassle. You can create your own automation to do that for you, but it seems unnecessary.

For me the community also sometimes feels very hostile. For instance, you can have a Portainer add-on, but installing other Docker images makes your system 'unsupported'. Same with some blacklisted images [2], which break Home Assistant Supervisor. Or when the maintainer of one of the add-ons completely ignores a breaking issue after a day [3].

1. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/reload-automations-aut...

2. https://github.com/home-assistant/supervisor/blob/main/super...

3. https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-adguard-home/issues/1...

If you want to know exactly what something is asking for, permissions-wise, just look at the config.json for it. This is 3 clicks to get to from the AdGuard add-on page: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-adguard-home/blob/main/adguard/config.json

Way back when, if you installed HA Core as a TrueNAS CORE Community Plugin, hopefully you followed these instructions to store your homeassistant_config directory to an external dataset. It will make your migration will be pretty easy.

Home Assistant

That leaves the Home Assistant Core installation option. TrueNAS has a community plugin that will take care of the jail setup and installation. You can find it from the plugins page in TrueNAS after changing the collection from iXsystems to Community. Here's a thread about the plugin, instructions for storing the data outside the jail, and instructions for setting up an SMB share for the HA data. (I don't like how the SMB instructions make the share readable by anyone. I'd suggest not checking the read-only option and replacing the write list=@homeassistant auxiliary parameter with valid users=@homeassistant so that only members of the homeassistant group have access.)