For setting up Home Assistant, there are several choices: Home Assistant OS, Home Assistant Container, Home Assistant Supervised, and Home Assistant Core.

I chose Home Assistant OS for a few reasons.

First Choice

Home Assistant Container

For those that know me, you’d probably be surprised that I went with Home Assistant OS. I’m a tinkerer and like to have full control over my systems.

In a past life, I managed both Lastpass and 1Password. Neither of them were something I wanted to use personally, so I was looking for something better.

In the mean time, I was using KeePassXC stored in Google Drive. And Holly and I also had a shared Keepass file stored in a shared directory so we could share passwords between us.

But then I learned about Bitwarden.