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# Home Assistant OS (HAOS) Operational notes for a Home Assistant OS appliance VM specifically (not a plain Home Assistant Container/Docker install) — first built in this homelab 2026-07-13 as VMID 150 on Proxmox. For the Proxmox/Terraform side of provisioning this kind of VM (UEFI, no cloud-init, appliance image import), see the `proxmox-terraform-provisioning` skill instead — this skill covers the guest OS/application layer once it's already running. ## "Add-ons" is now "Apps" Home Assistant renamed **Settings → Add-ons** to **Settings → Apps** in the 2026.2 release — purely cosmetic (still the same Supervisor-managed Docker containers underneath), done to reduce confusion between "Add-ons" and "Integrations" for new users. Any guide, screenshot, or memory referencing "Add-ons" on a current install means **Apps**. Individual app detail pages keep their existing tab names (Info / Log / Configuration / Documentation) — only the top-level menu label changed, not the per-app navigation. ## Installing a non-default app Not every app is in the default store. Community-maintained ones (e.g. the Tailscale app) need their repository added first: **Settings → Apps → ⋮ (store view) → Repositories** → paste the repo URL (e.g. `https://github.com/hassio-addons/repository` for the widely-used "Home Assistant Community Add-ons" set). It then appears in the store under that repo, installs like any other app. ## No normal shell, no cloud-init, no guest agent HAOS is a locked-down app