How to install Home Assistant OS on an Intel NUC or any x86 PC

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In this video I show how to install Home Assistant OS onto an Intel NUC using Balena Etcher and a live Ubuntu instance. The same process can be used to install HAOS onto an x86 PC. Protip: Once you get Ubuntu installed onto the PC, use Firefox to come back to this video so you can copy/paste the commands.

Command for disk partitioning: gnome-disks

Commands for installs (Note that I left a blank line between each command to account for any word wrap issues. Also note that there is an extra space in the URLs that you'll need to remove after the https:// YouTube kept turning that into a hyperlink, and because of the length it didn't display the whole thing):

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sudo add-apt-repository universe -y

sudo apt update

sudo apt install libfuse2

sudo apt update

sudo apt update -y

sudo apt --fix-broken install -y

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Some of my favorite home automation things:

My studio gear:

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I have updated the description with new commands to address the previous comments below about the installation not working. Hopefully this addresses the issues some viewers had due to Balena getting in a fight with their previous cloud hosting provider. Enjoy!!

fasthowto
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Thanks for the concise instructions.
For those of you with the issue: Balena Etcher error when installing - “something went wrong”
Put the github link into the browser and download the file locally, then point etcher to the downloaded file.

roughwaves
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Hey Jeff. Thank you, thank you, thank you ... for this video. It's been a lifesaver to me. I've spend many hours, following the official guides (as you also refer to), with no other result than frustrations and more grey hairs. But now, at last, I've god a working HA-installation, thanks to you. When my blood pressure reaches normal levels again, I'll check your other videos. They will undoubtedly contain more "gold-nuggets" for a new-comer within HA as I. Have a nice day and keep up the good work!

n-opedersen
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Thank you much. I have been so frustrated over the last couple of days trying to get HAOS installed on my NUC and nothing worked. Finally I followed your video and it worked in a matter of minutes. There were a couple of small differences in your installation method that were different than other videos I watched an it made all the difference.

KC_Jimmy_Studio
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WOW, thank you. Thank you and thank you. Did I say, thank you!!! DAMN DUDE. I was having issues trying to get Etcher to work in Ubuntu and could not get it to work. Your video and description just made it easy and flawless. Home Assistant is now installed and working like a charm. Now, it is time to learn Home Assistant. Once again, thank you. I just subscribed.

twizshiz
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Works like a charm. I have had no issues with my HA installation since i moved from a RP4 to the NUC. Thanks for the guide.

Wessller
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Thanks this was a life saver, I spent several hours trying to flash HAOS with Balena Etcher in Windows without success, your steps worked like a dream

IPC
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Nice Video. I tried another Smart home guy's video where he asked to use 2 USB sticks. Quite similar process, however, I ended up copying the Home Assistant image directly from Ubuntu OS by downloading. Your method was very practical and would have saved tone of my time trying to fire commands in Terminal.
Anyways, thanks for the video. Will keep it for future. !!!

charan
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What a man!! i spent 3 hours last night banging my head against a wall. then found your video and i am up and running. the command line for installing etcher didnt work for me, not sure what i did wrong, but i did it manually without issue. The big bit missing from the home assistant guides was the deletion of the partition.
subscribed, cant wait to join you on the journey

robinferguson
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I just bought the same NUC and installed home assistant exactly as you explained in the video. Thanks dude! I have been trying to run HA on a Raspberry Pi 3 with 1GB of ram, and as I've built out my system more, it crashes frequently due to low memory. Hoping to start over with the NUC as the main brain for my setup. Thanks again.

tmoritz
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You absolutely ROCK. Thank you for this! HAOS is loading now on my Beelink, I tried about 15 different ways to do this and yours is the only one that works well!

mnofstee
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Saved my sanity! I was able to flash Home Assistant to an HP T520 thin client by following these instructions with very little trouble. There is a space in front of 'github' in both of the above links that must be removed for those to work and Etcher refused to flash from a URL. Downloading the file and flashing from file worked flawlessly. I am now a subscriber and will be using your videos to help me with this! Thank you!

brentwood
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Hi Jeff, as always, a great video. Roughly following your steps, I got this to work on an old Lenovo mini PC. I’m not sure it was worth all I had to kill. You might want to take some of my issues under consideration for your updated video.

Erasing the disk. This Lenovo has 256 GB of M.2 memory. I know this is overkill for Home Assistant, but this is what I had. When partitioning the drive, it was going to take over 3 hours to erase the SSD. I stopped this step and started over. It wasn’t necessary.

I wish I could say that I used to use Linux and then my daddy got a job. The truth is that I have been a computer hobbyist for 40 years and an IT professional for much of that. As with you, I don’t know Linux.

I wish I had read the comments before going into the bogs. As you replied, the command line prompts you provided will not get Etcher installed. Of course, it turned out to be very simple using Firefox.

I could not get Etcher to write from the URL. Yes, I removed the extra space. I downloaded the image with the same URL and made progress. The first time I tried writing to the SSD, the entire PC froze at 36% and never recovered.

I started over and the PC froze again at 36%. Your youtube video was playing and I heard you repeating a one second snip for 5 minutes. Then the PC moved on and finished writing the image quickly. After that, everything worked as expected.

I hope there is something in here that helps when you update the video. Thanks for your great work.

fredaker
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WOW, thank you so much, this worked a treat. Really appreciate you putting in the time for this, subscribed and liked 🙂

tonyseeley
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Brilliant, thanks very much. Used these steps for my HP T530. Worked a treat! Found a comment somewhere about copy/paste and used the Ubuntoo Firefox browser to get back to this video to grab to the lines to enter - much easier than typing!

GrahamPrice-socq
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Thank you! This worked perfectly, and I appreciate the clear and straightforward step-by-step approach.

ocda
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This was excellent and just what i was looking for. Am migrating HA from a pi 4 to a Beelink.

tomgle
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Nice to know someone with your experience still has "want to throw the keyboard at the monitor days" as well :)) thanks for absorbing the frustration for us

markheatherington
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Lovely guide, easy to follow! Worked on the first try! Thanks!!

bjornsmedsgard
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I have been playing around with an old Lenovo mini PC with a bunch of Linux distros, but haven't had much luck. Will give your steps a try. By the way, I appreciate the effort you put into making the presentation useful, to the point, and fun.

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