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> I've been using the Docker container for a couple years without incident.

Before I ran HA Supervised [1], but that was a pretty poor experience. It broke every so often because of some sudden software incompatibility because Supervisor was silently updated in the background. And it really broke everything instead of having a grace period and/or sending me a notification.

> I've never really been a fan of the new automations and scripts UI, though, so I just stick to editing the YAML definitions manually.

Same here. Although things seem to improve in the next version with copy-paste support in the Automation Editor [2]. I would love being able to edit my YAML automations though.

Did you also known about a little known feature that you can setup different automation sources? Just like this:

  automation: !include automations.yaml
  automation foo: !include_dir_merge_list automations/
  automation bar: !include_dir_merge_list automations2/
Although not _best practice_ per se, you can have both UI and YAML automations at the same time. This is especially useful when you want to use Blueprints [3].

1. https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux#install-hom...

2. https://rc.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/05/31/release-20236/#...

3. https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/automation/using_blueprin...




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