Home Assistant MQTT broker add-on cannot be installed in Home Assistant container versions

Last Updated on September 7, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org

We tried to install an MQTT broker on our Windows Home Assistant Installation. There is an instruction how to do this:

But in our quick and easy Home Assistant installation on Windows:

Quick and easy Home Assistant portable installation on Windows 10

we could not find an option to install add-ons:

We found out that there two ways to install Home Assistant:

1. Home Assistant Operating System:

advantage: has the ability to install add-ons

2. Home Assistant Container running on Docker

Docker is free software for isolating applications using container virtualization. Docker simplifies the deployment of applications because containers that contain all the necessary packages can be easily downloaded and installed as files.

– Home Assistant container versions do not allow to install add-ons.