➕ Home Assistant Add-ons

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Add-ons in Home Assistant are separate applications running alongside the main system—not to be confused with integrations—that expand functionality with popular options from the Home Assistant Community Add-ons project, such as Node-RED for advanced automation, Plex for media streaming, AdGuard Home for network-level ad blocking, VSCode for YAML editing, and ESPHome for device firmware customization—all managed within one cohesive platform.

Introducing WireGuard VPN for Home Assistant

I’ve built quite a few add-ons for Hass.io, the Docker management system for Home Assistant; and because of that, I get a lot of requests for building all different kinds of add-ons, like WireGuard. Update: This is a 2019 launch post. Some names have changed since

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