UPDATED: How to install Home Assistant on Windows!

In this video, we cover how to install Home Assistant on Windows 11... FAST!

Some of my favorite home automation things:

My studio gear:

[jackt]

There we go. Perfect! We don't want mess around with yet another box on the network when we already have PCs with power to spare, better hardware, easier to use, no frogging around, and we end up with a system that is portable to PC we upgrade to.

[Tinker_Box]

Great! I now have HA on my windows PC, thanks to your video!

[SKELETON_FN]

Thank you so much for such a straightforward step-by-step guide.
Worked first time with no issues.
You got yourself a new sub!

[SimoneMalakay]

Wonderful guide! May I ask if, in order to keep the triggers and the schedule up/running, you must have this OS constantly running? Because in case of positive answer, I'd imagine that to better keep it locally, one must have a mini pc of sorts, right?

[jessebauer]

There are a few different reasons I can see to have elevation as an option. The main one would be cooking. If you ever look at your box of macaroni and cheese, it tells you to change your cooking time due to elevation. And with all the recipes that come through the Google Assistant and smart cooking, it will change your cooking times.

[WitherSkeleton]

when I try to start it

The virtual machine failed to boot. That might be caused by a missing operating system or misconfigured boot order. Mounting an operating system install DVD might solve this problem. Selecting an ISO file will attempt to mount it after the dialog is closed.

[jackscrafts]

Thanks. I did get an error - Had to go in AMD Bios and enable SVM (allow virtual machines)

[crsman]

Thanks for the video. It was perfect. I'm about to set up my home assistant! This is my first time here btw!

[GreveDK]

Great video, easy to follow
And it works 👍
thanks

[ElvPresidente]

I'm just setting this up now. I live in a block of flats (UK) - (An apartment block), and I'm on the second floor. I'm guessing the elevation part is for that.

[valentindellagiacoma]

each time im pressing ''start'' it says aborted, what could be the issue?

[theattorney]

Hello, can you still use the pc for office and web tasks with that windows install ? Also should WE create a dedicated folder for home assistant or should it be better to partition the SSD ?

[MATTSCOTTR]

Strange question: Dual Booting

Is it possible to install 2 operating (HAOS & Windows) systems on 1 PC by dedicating 1 SSD to either?

[carpfun]

Not in a hypervisor partition (HVP=0) (VERR_NEM_NOT_AVAILABLE).
VT-x is disabled in the BIOS for all CPU modes
Result Code:
E_FAIL (0X80004005)
Component:
ConsoleWrap
Interface:
IConsole

that says :(

[showme]

I got as far as entering the the ID address, and added the :8123 at the end, and checked by virus protection system were not blocking it. But this does not connect, any ideas?

[risheekrenikunta]

2:30 my system gets crashed when ever I access home assistant url. How to rectify this ??

[duheaumep]

hi, great video, what would you recommend as a min disk size for the NUC 250Gb SSD or more?

[deanmiller]

Has anyone ran HA on an Intel Alderlake N95 yet? I hear great performance reviews of this platform and the cost is great for the performance.

[DougArdy]

Thank you for the very clear explanation, great video. I do have a question for you though. Can I follow these instructions to install HAOS on an existing Windows 11 PC that I am currently running other programs on (Blue Iris, Channels DVR, etc.)? To put it another way, it won't delete my current OS or programs, correct? They will continue to work along side of the new HAOS?

[djfatti]

so with this method, when we plug in a zigbee usb dongle, it would find it? my question is, does virtual box have USB Passthrough? or you would need to install Zigbee2MQTT on windows and MQTT on the VM to be able to communicate with the zigbee dongle?