The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/stuardbr on 2024-10-14 03:17:50.

Hello everyone!!

Based in your experience with HomeAssistant, in a scenario where you don’t have any IoT device to control, do you think that have all services available as add-ons/plugins is better or not that use all of the as individual services/containers? There is easy to integrate services running as addons or is easy like integrate containers in the same network?

As we all know, Home Assistant is very popular and the system can be used to host many plugins that do the most things we have, as NVR, Automation, dashboard, etc, and I prefer to ask this here instead of r/homeassistant to try to don’t receive much biased answers.

At the moment, I don’t have any IoT device that put me in the direction of use HA, but I’m very interested in it and I know that sooner or later I will start to play with it, but I need to check if use plugins is a good idea versus individual containers before jump in the rabbit’s hole.

As always, thank you to be this nice community!