How To Install Home Assistant On Any x86 PC | Intel NUC - 2023 Tutorial

Take your smart home setup to the next level with this user-friendly tutorial on installing Home Assistant OS. Easily set it up on your Intel NUC or any x86 PC using Balena Etcher and a live Ubuntu instance. Tested and 100% effective!

🔗 WRITTEN GUIDE INCLUDING COMMANDS ⬇️

Balena Etcher Download Page:

Ubuntu Desktop Download Page:

URL for the Home Assistant OS x86-64 image:

Home Assistant Official Website:

▬ 🎥 VIDEO CHAPTERS: ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 - Intro
00:19 - Boot Medium Options
00:48 - Hardware Prerequisites
01:24 - Install Balena Etcher
01:34 Download Ubuntu 22.04.02 LTS
01:56 - Popup Messages While Flashing?
02:07 - BIOS Disclaimer
02:19 - BIOS Setup
02:49 - How To Boot Ubuntu
03:15 Install Balena Etcher In Ubuntu
03:52 - Flash Home Assistant OS
04:39 - First Boot
05:03 - Home Assistant Setup
05:37 - Outro

[SimplySmartHouse]

FIXED Issue when installing Balena Etcher in Ubuntu. (didn't work in the last few days)
Updated the command in the blog post:

[ronbrown]

I really appreciate the help. I tried several times to get this to work using other peoples videos, and yours was the only one that worked. Before this I have been using a pi with a SD card, and then I moved up to a solid state drive, but my system was getting very big and that started to have problems, So I decided to get a Dell Optiplex 3050 and I spent 2 days trying to get this to work, and nothing was working until I made it here. So now I'm just trying to work out some small issues. I guess the only weird thing about this new set up is that there doesn't seem to be a way to turn off the computer other than long pressing the physical button on the computer, or I guess pulling out the power cord, but hopefully I won't need to turn it off. Thanks for the detailed help.

[drewx-]

Couldnt you just flash HA to a usb from main pc, and install via bios by choosing boot option? Seems much more simple. Either way, good video!

[lolipipan]

much thanks for the guide. @4:40 is there a way to run home assistant without wired network, since i dont have a port on my laptop?

[espeland]

Hei og takk for en god video. Eg har klart å sette opp Home Assistant on thin client og fått AMS leseren opp på nett.
Men eg får ikkje disse to til å snakke sammen og skjønner ikkje helt hvor det går galt.
I amsleser bruker eg HA IP som Host og legger inn brukernavn og passord. Ingenting skjer.
Er det nødvendig at MPQT er innstalert i HA?

[neilos]

Good video. Didn’t work for me as it errors when trying to flash from URL. Seems to be a permission error.

[elisalant]

Great video, thanks
Is there a way to migrate an existing HA from a Rasberry Pi to an intel based pc?
Many thanks

[PietroPasquero]

At the start the voice track is mono, on the left channel only. Is driving me crazy

[exessd]

4:11 fuck is this !!? disk dev/sdb Ubuntu 22.04...
and system drive other arbitrary disk !??


balena flash fail.
err : EBUSY:resource busy or locked, open '/dev/sda'

[mrrcomp]

HI great video thanks. the flash to the diskonkey is taking hours ? How can i debug to figure out the issue? I tried with a 2tb disk it gave a warning that the dik is very large.. i allowed it.. but after 2 hrs i crashed the balenaetcher ..then a 16GB also same issue..

Another question Must i flash the usb only on the target computer?

Regards

[Frants.A]

Fantastic guide. It worked like a charm. Many thanks.

[martink]

Quick, simple & straight forward - you helped me moving an existing USB installation to the internal SSD - Thanks!

[Natho]

I watched several videos to get this set up, this one along with your documentation was the best by far. thank you.

[mireksznajder]

Thanks for your work. I am a beginner. I installed on NUC7. Quickly and without problems.

[mikesandstrom]

This did it. After two days of screwing around a process that worked. Thanks Much.😜

[TheGreatestLewis]

Is it possible to install a copy of my current HA to the SSD?

[Rafa.doplexo]

Can this method replace a Tuya Bluetooth Gateway?

[AlgailiAlgaili]

i installed it like your way..but icant get my windows back😓

[adilmoiniceberg]

thank you for detailed video. bless you

[Martberg]

I tried installing it on a ThinClient but I keep getting the problem that it won't flash to the SSD in the system. I think I have everything correct in the boot menu. Maybe you have another tip?