Installing Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi or a PC

Your guide to installing the Home Assistant Operating System on a Raspberry Pi or an old PC or Laptop.

Links:
Home Assistant Docker playlist:
Zigbee and Home Assistant playlist:

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:25 - Different Home Assistant Installation Methods
02:41 - Zigbee USB Dongles
04:02 - Installing Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi
07:35 - Installing the Home Assistant OS on a NUC or PC

[FredSchmitthammer]

Following along with my setup for my new home. Looking forward to taking this journey with you!

[lsismeiro]

Keep the videos coming, great content!

[kzfittycent]

I've been using the Home-Assistant snap and it's been great. Zero issues.

[roha]

I love how informative and inspiring your videos are, thanks for that.
Currently I'm running HA on a Raspberry PI 4, but I want to switch over to something like Docker or Proxmox on an Intel NUC.
I haven't really gotten into it, but since I think a Proxmox video is coming soon I will wait for that.

[DavidM]

When I first thought about trying HA, I went to the HA web site and found that they offered an OVA file for setting up a virtual machine. I set up that VM on my QNAP NAS and the process was absolutely simple and flawless. I wouldn't do it any other way if you have a NAS. Presumably this also works on Synology NAS's as well.

[georgeseese]

In a previous life, I helped manage data communication networks attached to IBM computers like AS400. I remember using a "Sniffer" about the size of a laptop. I could attach it to the network and "see" the traffic. There were competing "protocols" as various products connected. It was especially helpful when users complained about long response times and the challenge was to see what bully was clogging the wires. I'd like to have that tool to get visibility into my PC network. Perhaps I could then "see" where the Radio Browser signal or sun signal comes from and what language they speak.

[guysleeman]

had loads of failures during install on an old PC. Noticed on your video your destination disk has /dev, however the code in your article on the website does not. Great video thanks.

[papa_oso]

Thanks for this and all other vids Alan! 👌
I've been playing around HA on a RPi4 and now I want to install it on a thin client. What are your learnings about zigbee implementation (dongle, coverage, meshed network) when moving your home server away from either your studio, or to a laundry room? I've watched your other videos and couldn't find your insights on how to ensure proper zigbee coverage throughout your entire home when your home server is "hidden" in a laundry room or basement... 🤔
Thanks again from Chile 👍!

[therealdante]

Good timing, I just went from the Proxmox solution to a dedicated box. This install method unfortunately didn't work for me though. It ran the command with the correct drive name swapped in (and using sda1 instead of the nvme one since my mini-pc only has a sata m.2), it was working on something for a while, said files were copied, but the drive was still empty after rebooting... I have an M.2 > USB coming tomorrow and hope I can flash it from my windows machine with that.

[padcor]

I’m planning to have a laptop for this, is there a way I can use hubitat as a bridge for the zig bee signal instead?

[TanKianW]

Running mine on XCP-ng+XOA, with USB passthrough. Previously an Intel ZX-01.

[andysilvester]

I've ordered a HA Yellow but while I wait for it I'd like to use an old Win7-era PC which has a clean formatted (640Gb) hard drive. The specifications are quite old, but it runs 64-bit, has a quad-core intel processor and 4Gb RAM. However, it does not have UEFI bios which I understand is a requirement. I can't find a way to update the BIOS and don't know if its possible to 'update' to UEFI or whether this is a hardware limitation of the mainboard and chipset. Any ideas, please? Many thanks, Andy (UK)

[tomaspilcer]

I run it o my synology nas in Virtual machine with 2gb ram dedicated just for HA and it runs smoothly so far...

[xboxbenji]

I managed ok to put onold pc but now I got a pi I am struggling a little ....is it possible to take my settings and info from pc and transfer to my pi ? any help appreciated...thanks for sharing..

[joshuaang]

Hi @HomeAutomationGuy
Which sonoff dongle do you recommend, the P or E version?

[Hasse-swe]

Thanks for a greate video. The install of HA will be a project for tomorrow. I have a Debian server here at home with Teamspeak 3 server on. So ubunut is built on Debian. But i have never run Debian/ubuntu with graphics before.

[zakizaki]

I bought a raspberry Pi3 B+ kit and i have no clue what is it used for? and how to configure it to start

[alphaO]

I do the same without the home assistant dongle and I get to home assistant CLI, there is no UI, any suggestions ?

[peterguilliatt]

What do you do if the flash to SD fails?

[caltube]

@homeautomationguy I followed these steps, but my Lenevo thin client still boots to windows. Ubuntu Terminal says the files copied. I must be missing something? …. Thanks for your awesome info