What's the point of Home Assistant on True NAS?

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There’s a guide for installing HAOS in TrueNAS VM if you want to go that route.

Installing HAOS (Home Assistant OS) in a VM

Install Home Assistant OS Begin in the TrueNAS UI by selecting Datasets from the left-hand menu. Next, choose a location within your datasets where you want to place your VM (Virtual Machine). Click Add Zvol to create a new Zvol at least 32 GiB in size. Show Create Zvol Next. check the Zvol Details to take note of the Path. Please also confirm that the Volume Size was set correctly, and is at least 32 GiB in size. Show Zvol Details Then, using the TrueNAS shell, run these commands to (1) dow…