Home Assistant PROXMOX Install and Setup (With NUC Alternative)

In todays video we are going to be installing and setting up Proxmox (PVE) in order to host a Virtual Machine for our Home Assistant instance. In this demo we are also looking at an Intel NUC alternative. This alternative offers more power than a Pi4 for a similar price, and is a cheaper option than the NUC.

To be more specific we are installing and setting up Proxmox on a HP Elite Desk 800 G1. We are then setting up a VM for Home Assistant and I also show how to migrate existing installations and how to setup USB devices (Conbee II).

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0:00​​​​ - Intro
0:22​​​ - Todays Video
0:58 An Intel NUC Alternative
1:32 - Why not a NUC ?
2:38 - What is Proxmox?
3:22 - Proxmox Install and Setup
7:25 - Proxmox 2FA
7:40 - Updating Proxmox Packages
8:52 - Creating the Home Assistant VM
16:00 - Setting Up Home Assistant VM
16:20 - Migrate Existing Home Assistant
18:45 - Adding USB devices to the VM (Conbee II)
20:10 - Summary
20:55 - Outro

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[marks]

Worth noting that I followed the guide and just spent a few hours trying to solve my HA VM not booting. Giving me BLK0 errors and white/yellow text. Fix was to start HA VM in ProxMox and immediately hit ESC until the boot settings *of the VM* came up and DISABLED SECURE BOOT *IN THE PROXMOX HomeAssistant VM* and *NOT* on the host machine. This fixed my issue. Unsure how much, if any the video can be edited after-the-fact - but this was a huge issue for me and I missed the comment previously posted unfortunately.

[paulrain]

This video is still relevant 05/04/2024. Easy to follow step-by-step guide, delivered in Mark's usual easygoing style. I love the attention to detail in his videos; this channel is my go-to when I need a guide for anything HA-related. Thanks yet again Mark

[JosephFerris]

Super helpful, Mark! I ran into a couple of issues, which presumably are due to the newer version of Proxmox. I had to go into the boot manager (start VM, console, then esc immediately) and disable Secure Boot for the VM. Then, for the VM, under options, I enabled the QEMU Guest Agent, which is disabled by default. I've now got my new Home Assistant instance ready for configuration on my new (to me) HP Elitedesk G2 Mini.

[hapigandhi]

Unfortunately with the latest Proxmox and the latest disk image, this is not working

I found out the error was on the part where you select OVMF (UEFI). After selecting EFI storage you need to disable Pre-Enroll keys (last option). If you leave
it enabled it will never boot

[paulhyland]

Just want to highlight a quote from a comment on this thread to help others who are running upto date proxmox installs. i spent hours trying to boot this with marks video as used this originally to set up my primary HA instance. I kept running into QEMU GUEST AGENT NOT RUNNING. You need to do this while setting up the VM

Thanks to HAPI "Unfortunately with the latest Proxmox and the latest disk image, this is not working

I found out the error was on the part where you select OVMF (UEFI). After selecting EFI storage you need to disable Pre-Enroll keys (last option). If you leave
it enabled it will never boot"
Mark you need to update this in your details thanks for the original video though !

[NervousNab]

Great guide. Additionally I've had to uncheck "Pre-Enroll Keys" during VM creation.

[Wallf]

All your videos are great. Home Assistant has being quite a journey. I started with an SD Card, thanks to your videos I moved to a SSD. Now, I'm successfully running it in Proxmox. Not to mention all other tutorials. Thank you!!

[IanTakats]

Mark, that was a brilliant tutorial. I followed it through and it more or less nailed it for me. I just had one slight problem with initally booting the VM. I found by starting the VM then immediately going into the BIOS by pressing the esc key I could play about with the boot settings including turning off the option to use secure boot. I had already done this in the BIOS of my NUC. Anyhow, somehow that fixed it and I am ready to go. Thanks for all your tutorials and the hard work you put into making them so easy to follow.

[gazgadgets]

Thanks Mark. Can't wait for the NUC video. I've bought a NUC and its coming next week. I want to be able to have a supervised install of HA but have the option of using the NUC for other services. I'm looking forward to seeing how you setup yours.

Thanks again for another great vid.

[MattFacer]

Absolute genius. I was using an rpi3 which kept crashing. I think I have out grown it. I had a windows PC which ran plex and Unifi controller - but nothing else. Following this video I now have a proxmox server running HA and Ubuntu for plex. Great video, thank you!!

The only sticking point I found was that I needed to untick "Pre-Enroll Keys" on the "System" tab when creating the VM. With that ticked, it just wouldn't load HA at all.

[Myhtraven]

I followed this guide multiple times but keep getting the message “bdsdxe failed to boot0003 … access denied” when I start the VN. Any idee what I do wrong?

[wter]

Thanks Mark - another great video. Exactly what I need now! Will try to migrate my HA-installation next week following your instructions.

[BSOArtMagedon]

My previous question in following lines has been solved and my server works perfectly now.
I leave the comment for anybody who will have the same problem with a nelovo thinkCentre machine M93P
In the Bios / Network configuration / Boot Agent has to be disabled
(On my configuration, the value was ''PXE'' which is not a problem for windows)
Probably proxMox can ignore or fix the problem before starting Home Assistant, but I did not find the way
So... modifying the Bios is a solution or the solution. Thanks again Mark. Good job.

Hello everybody. I'm totally lost. Mark did a good job with this tuto and I'm trying and trying again this installation.
Proxmox looks OK.
Installing the image of Home Assistant is OK too
Starting Home Assistant does show something correct on the console.
It seems not booting from Hard Disk and try too boot from network instead.
The PC is a lenovo Thinkcentre M93P, and as I was suspecting a problem with UEFI, I did upgrade for the last Bios version
Intel virtualization is On / VT-d is On / TxT is on / Secure Boot is Off
I'm still in a
ANY IDEA

[dnicules]

Very useful, followed your step by step instructions and it works. Thank you!

[Aletzi]

Thanks for the video. Just got my home assistant up and running from backup, with zigbee and bluetooth 💪🏻

[MrMuzzy]

I just spent the weekend setting up Proxmox on an old HP Deskpro and wished i had come across this video two days ago. Great video!! the only issue i have is bluetooth errors in home assistant... still works but getting errors for tracking.

[edwinkm]

Was defaulting to UEFI Interactive Shell (startup.nsh) with the newer Proxmox version.
Had to disable "Pre-Enroll keys" at the "System" step (selecting BIOS: OVMF (UEFI)). Otherwise it would refuse to start "BOOTx64.EFI"
Hope it helps someone!

[hajunkie]

Thanks for this video I am about to setup a Proxmox cluster and add HA to it. This was very informative to my new setup.

[jeffwelvaert]

Great video. I got hung up on the Proxmox Import Command a little though. A couple pointers - hasos should be haos, make sure the version number matches (mine was 6.3), make sure the storage matches (mine was local-zfs)

[makeitworktech]

Ohhhh it was a rabbit hole :-D Thanks for explaining what ProxMox is and why we'd want it! Great video!