#Running Home Assistant on HASS OS vs TrueNAS

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urban stone
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Hi everyone

I wanted to ask for some advice regarding my Home Assistant setup.

Currently, I’m running HASS OS on a Raspberry Pi 4, but I’ve recently set up a home NAS using TrueNAS. I’m considering moving my Home Assistant setup to run as a container in TrueNAS instead.

Would there be any significant benefits to making this switch? Or is it better to continue running it on the Pi 4?

I'm not using it for anything significant and the Pi 4 has been sufficient, but keeping all my homelab in the same place could be nice and freeing up the Pi 4 for other projects.

Thanks in advance for your insights!

hollow horizon
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Why not a VM? You can keep using HAOS then.

south badge
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unless your running tons of addons your better off running it on a TrueNAS, Get much more functionality.

acoustic hatch
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You can still run addons if using TrueNAS if you use a VM.

fossil stag
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I ran HA on TrueNAS via Truecharts until they took their ball and went home. Migrated over to HAOS in a VM on TrueNAS and id say that's the far superior solution.

urban stone
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Thanks guys. I'm not too familiar with the VMs in TrueNAS yet as I've been running everything as standalone apps. Was considering doing the same with HASS but will that not allow for addons? ie. MQTT?

delicate tartan
delicate tartan
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But you can install mosquitto as a standalone broker (I think truenas had that rather than being truecharts only) and connect to it internally

fossil stag
summer mirage
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I'm running HassOS as a VM on my FreeBSD NAS, so basically it considers itself it's own "machine". Just make sure you have it bridged to your network, not NATed, otherwise mDNS and other broadcast stuff probably won't work.

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All the docker bits/etc will run inside the VM as part of HassOS

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The MQTT/etc is all run as HA add-ons, so within the VM image. Only thing I have running separate is Frigate in it's own VM and using the HA Proxy, because initially when I started using Frigate HA didn't have a good way to add extra storage, would have had to figure out how to increase the storage size, rather than add an extra block device to the VM so Frigate had enough storage space for the video storage.