Home Assistant renamed "add-ons" to "apps" recently.

Whyyyyyyyyyy? It's so frustrating that they are still moving stuff around like this.

Guides, documentation, and videos all point at add-ons - and have done for years - so unless you have a _really good reason_, don't change it!

#homeassistant

@ironicbadger It’s unusable for Joe Public, software that changes so much so often for no good reason is just bad.

I ran it for a few years, and found that even with my relatively simple setup, it would need a few hours a month of faffing to get it working again after an update.

End up, I gave up on it and migrated to Homey Self Hosted Server. It just works. It did everything I used HA for. It doesn’t blow up monthly. Wife has forgotten it exists, because stuff just does what it should.

I run Homey SHS on a Mac Mini M2, with a Homey Bridge doing the Zigbee and Z-Wave.

@ZS homey does indeed look good. $149 lifetime license. Perhaps I will have to try it.
HA is GOATed but totally agree with your concerns of how brittle of an experience it is.
@ironicbadger Yeah, I needed something more stable as I’m going on to shift work, so stuff needs to work when I’m not there to fix it. The WAF is incredibly important, and the WDNA Home Assistant.