Home Assistant 2024 - Which Hardware to Buy + Full Install Guide

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The What and the Why on new hardware I chose for Home Assistant and a complete install guide from end to end of it. affiliates - Beelink N95 Mini PC - amzn.to/3xZyQmD Sabrent NVME - amzn.to/3UhccNX or Dell USFF - amzn.to/3wgrOJJ - Beelink Aliexpress s.click.aliexp...
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00:00 Intro & Hardware Choices
06:52 NVME and Beelink Internals
08:46 Kamrui N95 Internals
09:34 Loading HAOS on the NVME
13:37 BIOS Settings
16:32 Onboarding Home Assistant
20:40 Closing
22:00 The BEST Part!

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@digiblurDIY Месяц назад

*UPDATE - Error flashing via etcher? Use this version of etcher, we found that the latest version has problems: github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/download/v1.18.11/balenaEtcher-Portable-1.18.11.exe

@shweenie Месяц назад

This fixed my Issue.

@russhumphrey-e7k 9 дней назад

I did this, and now the download flash seems to go OK, but when it boots on the BeeLink, it ends with a line that says "HAOS not found", and makes an emergency exit into PuppyLinux. I'll confirm that I've got the proper version of balenaEtcher & of the HAOS & run it all again. 😕

@Musicman-50 3 месяца назад

You neglected to mention the Dell Wyse Thin Client 5070. I purchased mine on eBay for only $35. It has a fast quad core Intel CPU with 8gb RAM and 16gb SSD. It however has an M.2 slot so for $12.00 more I purchased a 256GB SSD on Amazon. It's very fast in fact I use a second one for my desktop computer as it's as fast as a typical NUC or mini desktop PC. Draws about 4-5 watts and CPU never Hits more than about 10% CPU under full load running Home Assistant. I'm also using a 3rd unit as my home media server with an external 4tb hard drive. Streams movies and audio easily to all my home media devices. These Thin Clients are basically mini PCs and enterprise grade construction bullet proof.

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Pretty much the same thing for the USFF/SFF stuff on Ebay. Great deals on those if you dig a little and don't mind piecing stuff together a little.

@riffdex Месяц назад

The downside of the Wyse 5070 is they don’t support NVMe SSDs. As long as you have a SATA based M.2 SSD you’re good to go. I’m not saying it’s a big downside, it’s a great machine, but most people don’t have SATA M.2 drives laying around

@AX-fx7ng Месяц назад

Inter3sting find.

@AX-fx7ng Месяц назад

@@riffdex I have some from before

@Musicman-50 Месяц назад

@@riffdex well they are only about $12 for a 128GB for an M.2 SSD so I don't see that as a problem myself.

@djkilla5479 17 дней назад

I've watched alot of hours of people doing this. I had so much trouble getting anything to work but once I follow you step by step man thank you 🙏 it was very easy and I got it up and working. Please upload more videos showing all kinds of other stuff. I would love for you to show us because you explain everything for actual beginners like myself. Thank you again for the awesome video!!!!

@digiblurDIY 17 дней назад

Awesome! Glad to hear from you that it worked out. Thanks for the kind words!

@chiraldude 6 дней назад

My Raspberry PI died. Instead of trying to figure out how to fix or replace it, I bought an old laptop on eBay for less than $100. Loaded VMware, installed HA OS and restored into a new instance of HA from my PI backups. Runs great! Rebooting my PI took about 5 min but the VM restarts in about 1 min so I know I have lots of CPU power to spare.

@LeGiTKnifeZ 2 дня назад

Which Pi did you have ?

@johnm9767 3 месяца назад

Great timing. Finally ready to make the jump to HA. Was going to get the green until I watched your video on it. Been surfing eBay looking at older HP Elitedesk Minis now.

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Of course if you find a better deal on eBay go that route if it makes sense. I like the N95 option for people as I know a lot of people just want to buy something new that they can easily return if necessary and they aren't taking a bit of gamble on. Yet this one doesn't break the bank and still offers great performance.

@icharlemagne 3 месяца назад

Thanks for listing the wattage for each device

@GigawattGarage 2 месяца назад

I Have a very hard time believing the wattage numbers he provided. I know for a fact that little Dell computer he showed needs a 65w psu, so it at least pulls 30w at idle. Same story for that last piece of hardware with the i7, probably uses a 90w psu. But at US prices of 12¢/KWh it really doesn’t matter.

@digiblurDIY 2 месяца назад

@GigawattGarage we aren't processing video at full bore on all cores. These are efficient processors

@jeremyjedynak 3 месяца назад

This channel is always informative and down to earth. Thanks for this video!

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Thanks! Keeping it real and telling it like it is type thing. No paid reviews / projects.

@Ecoi1 16 дней назад

Thanks for this. I was really looking for this type of video. All of the other videos I saw were about installing on a rasp pi without really considering the other options. I feel rather committed to getting into HA and there's a lot I am interested in so willing to put in some more thought into hardware choices.

@digiblurDIY 15 дней назад

Nice! Yeah Raspberry Pi isn't really a great starting point anymore.

@erbartlett 3 месяца назад

I went back and fourth on this for a while. Tried it on a mac, then on a zimablade, and then just finally went NUC and installed it bare metal. Should have done the NUC right from the start. Eventually I'll get more comfortable with docker and try something more powerful, but for now this was pretty plug'n'play

@plebius 3 месяца назад

Just built one last weekend for the first time. Found docker and absolute nightmare. (Maybe it's just me.) I went hyper V in the end and it was extremely straightforward. If you go down that route, I'll be happy to answer any questions.

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Zima stuff is definitely expensive for what it is. Little bit of hype there. These little N95 NUCs have been awesome for the bang for the buck even doing non HA stuff.

@Crystawth 22 дня назад

Just be sure to keep in mind that if you install the docker container for home assistant you will not be able to install add-ons.

@digiblurDIY 22 дня назад

@Crystawth yes you can. Addons are simply docker containers and you can install as many a you want.

@MichaelBennett1 3 месяца назад

Using an old second hand i5 NUC, chugs along at 5-10% CPU and has been solid for 3 years so far. I used an nvme to USB adaptor to initially image HASSOS and occasionally pull it and write a backup image in case the drive ever dies, I keep HASS config backups as well but it’ll be up and running again quickly if disaster strikes.

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Excellent point! I do this as well on some devices and there's also ways to USB boot backup across the network much like we did in the Norton Ghost days.

@jmorris644 3 месяца назад

If you use a Blink, don't forget to save your windows license that comes with it for possible future use.

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Very true! I have saved some of mine from years ago on things. Some larger manufacturers like Dell have them cooked into the BIOS too which is nice.

@squalazzo 3 месяца назад

just start windows the 1st time, to it 1st setup, activation online, done... then even if you change ssd and reinstall, as soon as it will be online, it will self activate again, no need to save anything, ever done so, once activated, it will be forever... for anything else, "massgrave" exists :D

@chrisgrose3137 24 дня назад

Thank you for the sabrent tip and explaining so well I have switched to haos fun times

@linearburn8838 29 дней назад

I would recomend a N100 firewall box you can get them for around 150 buck with 8g ddr5 ram and a 128g nvme SSD 4 core atom

@Lonestar101 3 месяца назад

I'd love to see how you add Z-Wave and Zigbee controllers with MQTT these days. Also, Z-wave smart door locks with PIN codes are a hot mess with Home Assistant. Can you show us how it's done? Locks are a pretty important component of a smart home and Home Assistant doesn't make it easy, especially managing PIN codes.

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

I will be showing some Zigbee and most likely Zwave soon. I don't have many Zwave items though due to issues I had with interference over the years.

@Leonvolt28 3 месяца назад

I hope that someone will create a simple installer for hone assistant os that can run from a usb drive. I know it can be done via Ubuntu and stuff but a more streamlined option would be nice.

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Yes! That would be awesome. Something like the Opnsense, TrueNAS, etc installer would be amazing. Cuts the job down by 50% or more.

@jmr 3 месяца назад

@@digiblurDIY I don't see an advantage because you would still have to write an image file to the USB drive the same way you would have to write an image file to an SD card. RPI imager is a single piece of software and you just pop the SD card in then select HAOS to write. Am I missing something?

@djashjones 3 месяца назад

@@jmr When I did my install, you had to take the hd out of the mini pc and clone it to the usb.

@jmr 3 месяца назад

@@djashjones Oooh, duh. I was just thinking about the RPI install. Yeah that's a pain in the butt!

@tamildesan837 Месяц назад

@@djashjonesyou can very much install without removing the hard/ssd drives. Just boot with Ubuntu bootable USB drive and restore the downloaded HA image. That’s what I have done and doing on hardware installs of HA.

@wstrater 3 месяца назад

See a lot of videos starting with HAOS where integrating plug-ins is easy. How about putting Debian and Docker on a device and integrate NodeRED, MariaDB, Mosquito, InfluxDB, … into HA for those that want to build out a more robust home auto / home lab server? HAOS does run Docker but gets upset if you install anything on it.

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Yep. I love some Debian and docker compose. Although it isn't for everyone. I might circle back to that on some supervisorless setups after I catch the beginners up on things.

@wstrater 3 месяца назад

@@digiblurDIY Didn’t think it would be a priority but I have seen enough videos were people say “then can” or “they do” but don’t follow through and talk about how to do it. It may be low bandwidth content but not sure who is stepping people through the next step and how to integrate all the different pieces manually.

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

I've done a full step setup of MQTT, HA, NodeRed, etc on the docker setup with Unraid before, I haven't done it via docker compose yet in a video.

@christianlohmann8577 3 месяца назад

Running of a BeeLink but BT driver and wifi not working well with current HAOS kernel. But also with older BT USB adapter I loose frequently connection to my IOT device

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

I think they had issues with the N100 at one point? But I do remember the devs just saying to go BT proxy with ESPHome as it was more reliable and quicker anyways.

@WimVeen 2 месяца назад

Such a nice detailed explanation. I like what you did here. Just as it is, no bla-bla-bla ;-) Thanks Digiblur!

@digiblurDIY 2 месяца назад

Awesome! Thank you so much and glad you enjoy my style.

@nateF888 2 дня назад

with a mini pc hardware, what are the pros and cons of installing HA OS compared to just installing virtualbox and running it containerized?

@digiblurDIY День назад

Gives you more flexibility. Some people don't want to do their own OS and such is all.

@ihasmax 21 день назад

Great timing. I've been frustrated with my rp4 + HA setup (specifically z-wave issues and SD card concerns/performance). Had a few rp5 boards on hand but started doing all the math to put together a complete setup with SSD and everything and the beelink S12 just seems like a no brainer for what I need.

@ihasmax 20 дней назад

update: just finished moving over to a beelink S12 and it worked flawlessly following this guide. I'm now fully off my raspberry pi + SD card setup which feels amazing and I'm already noticing performance + reliability improvements across the board

@digiblurDIY 20 дней назад

Noiceeee!!! Massive improvement for sure!

@The22v10 3 месяца назад

Great stuff, I just picked up some Intel NUC's I5 CPU with 16 meg ram and 128 m2SD , i scored 2 for $40 bucs each. 😁✌

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Definitely a steal! What Gen of i5

@afkafkdk 12 дней назад

Why N95? - sure, I understand your view/mission for the easy entry/substitution for HAOS but the N100 models are just as cheap and faster, right? You can get a 16GB/512GB version for $200 but then it is twice as good by having more expansion room - eventually for proxmox, etc in the near future if/when you want more ❤

@digiblurDIY 11 дней назад

All depends on the users budget and availability, by all means if the N100 isn't much more than make the jump.

@jmr 3 месяца назад

I'm starting to hit some bottlenecks on my PI4. My plan for now will be to continue running basic HA and most add ons on it. I'm going to run more CPU intensive parts of HA elsewhere however. My thought is basic home automation tasks will continue to run normally when I'm playing with advanced stuff on another server. Perhaps at some point I'll move everything over to something more "beefy" but I don't see a point of breaking a very stable and snappy system.

@leblancexplores 3 месяца назад

What CPU intensive parts are you doing?

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

@leblancexplores frigate and Esphome compiles are two big ones for me.

@vaughanza Месяц назад

Thanks for great video, your son is really growing up , awesome.

@digiblurDIY Месяц назад

Thanks!! He still has fun helping out with things as well!

@The_Mup 3 месяца назад

Another option is an Asrock N100DC-ITX motherboard in a small itx case with an external DC power supply. You'll have a RAM slot and a PCI-E slot. And the boards are relatively cheap.

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

That gets a little pricey for some people for this. Might as well just go with refurb SFF at that point for the same or better performance and save a little coin. It becomes that tipping point if you plan to build a NAS or server too.

@TortillaVideo 9 дней назад

Does HomeAssistant have a plugin for the horse carriage at the end of the video?

@digiblurDIY 9 дней назад

Yes... Its called HASSS

@MarkJones-lr2lk 3 месяца назад

Disappointed that you did not mention running HA on the lava lamp shown in the thumbnail 😂

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

It overheated and stopped working.

@AlanCuthbertson-XR 4 дня назад

I am totally knew to this, so I am not sure how to proceed. I have a Beelink box and I followed through the video, downloaded the image and flashed the memory using Balena. I, booted and changed the BIOS settings then booted the box. The console showed lots of things happening, but I had an error message during the boot: failed to start network manager wait online It continued then stopped with a message: Home assistant CLI not starting I am really not sure what I should do from here. I googled the error and most of the problems relate to VM machines. Any assistance would be appreciated.

@digiblurDIY 3 дня назад

I think you jumped into Discord and found the other port needed to be used right?

@ronm6585 3 месяца назад

Thanks Travis.

@shaunwhiteley3544 3 месяца назад

Great video, on something like the N95, how hard is it to get a google usb tpu frigate stick working, also 2 external spinning rust drives, one for frigate and another as a nas to share media for external kodi machines etc. Cheers, p.s, kids a great shot, handguns not allowed in UK unfortunately 😔

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

The Google USB TPU is easy peasy. Plug and play. The external drives from what I have seen is not with HAOS. Only network storage at this time is supported there according to the devs on HAOS. Of course if you did your own OS like Debian, Proxmox etc. Then you can control it all. His first time shooting. Figured we were at the hunting camp doing some mud riding and other work, let him crack off his first rounds and teach him some safety.

@shaunwhiteley3544 3 месяца назад

@@digiblurDIY You got me into Unraid lol but UK energy prices stink! I'm wanting something a bit lower powered to run 24/7 instead. Archery would be good for him too, also shouldn't annoy any neighbours. Strengthens up some muscles.

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

You can run those OS I mentioned on the N95/N100 with ease. We have a BB gun and bow for the back yard with lots of boxes for him as we have neighbors at home. At the hunting camp it's nothing but cows and hogs

@adventure4thrills 21 день назад

Great video! I’m a newbie to the HA and I bought the Beelink N95. Question I have is does it come with windows 11? And if so would I be able to use it if it’s downloaded already on the mini S to another computer? It seems a waist to write over it. I’ve not opened the beelink yet so thought I’d ask about it. Thanks

@digiblurDIY 21 день назад

I haven't moved it myself. I did do a read on mine and saved it though. It is worth a try and see if it works, it might not though as it would see it as a hardware change.

@adventure4thrills 18 дней назад

I found a RU-vid video where I was able to use a 32GB USB flash drive to create a recovery back up. I’m hoping that works. Now I’m having a bit of difficulty following your instruction on the site to download the Balena & Etcher the site looks different and I can’t find the etcher for windows portable. Could you update the site. Thanks!😊

@russhumphrey-e7k 15 дней назад

Hi - loved this video. Decided to go for it, got the gear, following the directions, but Etcher is not wanting to flash the file. Downloaded based on the URL in the video, so ver. 12.2. I get "Something is wrong. If it is a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupted. The writer process ended unexpectedly", and the internal error in Etcher is a Checksum error for the file. The version of Etcher is 1.19.21, and this is happening on a Mac. Target is a Beelink Mini S. Tried V 1.18.11 of Etcher - looks like the same error. Going to try to find a new version of the haos. OK - found v 12.4 of HAOS - this loaded successfully. Life is good again. thanx r

@digiblurDIY 15 дней назад

Try 18.11 github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v1.18.11

@kevinhilton8683 3 месяца назад

Wish this beelink unit had holes on the side to screw in some rack ears.

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Some big ears! I have a 2U shelf for stuff like this.

@Hupihovi 3 месяца назад

Dude! I love your new style, you fucking rock Stone Cold Steve Austin. :)

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Thanks bro!! Love it ! Keeping it real and fun as always. None of that fake crap.

@peteyx44 3 месяца назад

I like the new look

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Thanks!! Can't go back, that's for sure!

@jackipiegg 3 месяца назад

9:39 Waste of potential installing HaOS on a N95 chip. You should run proxmox instead, HAOS doesn't use much procession power. Heck, docker is good enough for home assistant.

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Probably a little bit more for someone just starting out to tackle unless there is a ready to go image of Proxmox and HA setup. Once they get some smart home stuff under their belt and they want to do more, then at that point they can use the same machine to load Linux, Proxmox, etc.

@jmr 3 месяца назад

HaOS is essentially Docker. You can find add ons that will challenge the hardware although I take your point. Full Docker or proxmox are more configurable.

@jackipiegg 3 месяца назад

@@digiblurDIY I disagree. Once you setup everything, even me, much less a layman will not start everything fresh again. Weird because proxmox has the same image guide in this video. Idk if you're out of the loop but proxmox has gone a long way in ease of use. Just point the image and it will do everything for you.

@jackipiegg 3 месяца назад

@@jmr I've tried using HaOS as the main OS. It is too limiting as the dependency/driver support is not up to date for other stuff. You need to manually find it yourself in command line which is a headache in of itself.

@jmr 3 месяца назад

@@jackipiegg What about using dongles like for ZigBee? I'm always seeing people fighting to get USB passthrough. Was that an issue for you in Proxmox or did you have to do something "extra"?

@gadget1968 3 месяца назад

Many thanks for the content and you are correct the Beelink is a better choice...It has all that you need and tad more .... And point you missed on the "Kamrui " it has a fan where as the BeeLink does not ... so the Beelink is a lot more quite .... My only gripe with HOS is how big of pain in the ass it is to use the second drive that the Bee has available to install... .. Again thanks for the the work and content

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

I think the beelink does have a fan. Look on the back in one of my shots, there's fins for the vent. It just idles down most of the time I assume. Now you've got me wondering...let me throw a benchmark test on it to see if will get warm and kick on. And yes, that would be great if HAOS supported second drives without people having to jump other things but I guess that's when you have to switch.

@gadget1968 3 месяца назад

@@digiblurDIY Go to time 7:11 you have yours open no fan there speak of also when I opened mine I could not see one

@krunge 2 дня назад

Would you recommend running Home Assistant on a Synology NAS (DS918+) or would it be better to have it on a mini PC like in the video?

@digiblurDIY 2 дня назад

Can you run VMs on that thing?

@krunge 2 дня назад

@@digiblurDIY yes that should be possible (according to a quick Google) but never tried it. Was just thinking that if it was possible I wouldn't have to have another device running 24/7 when my NAS is already on all the time.

@ajaffarali 2 месяца назад

A bit new to this, so my question might sound stupid- but why do you need to remove the NVMe from the NUC and install it on a USB enclosure? Why not just directly on the NUC's NVMe?

@digiblurDIY 2 месяца назад

Because they don't have a direct installer via USB like some other projects. There's a live Linux USB deal you can do but it is a major PITA

@ton-thattai8952 2 месяца назад

I am a new home assistance (HA) user. Which HA hub I should use? Thanks

@digiblurDIY 2 месяца назад

I would suggest a N95 NUC or something cheap like a refurb or i3 6th Gen or better

@ton-thattai8952 2 месяца назад

@@digiblurDIY Thanks

@jolyonfavreau3160 2 месяца назад

so im curious if the beelink n95 is a better option than installing on the Synology DS223 2-Bay 16TB NAS, as i intend on getting one of those so the family can offload from google/apple photo storage....and of course as a good old media drive.

@digiblurDIY 2 месяца назад

Can you run a VM on it?

@dantyr11 2 месяца назад

Great video Thanks. Can I connect a touch screen and use the Hdmi?

@digiblurDIY 2 месяца назад

You'd probably have to use your own OS at that point with a GUI. You could still run HA on it though in a container or VM.

@The_Alpha_Channel 5 дней назад

When running home assistant on the windows box, I presume this requires python as well? Does it run as fast on a Linux box?

@digiblurDIY 5 дней назад

Not really recommended in my opinion. You could do a VM with it on Windows but again not really recommended.

@mykeljewell 3 месяца назад

Man I’m stuck at waiting for Home Assistant CLI to be ready 😕

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

I think you jumped into Discord and got the networking issue taken care of?

@Alcorelli1 3 месяца назад

I unpowered and repowered it about 6 times till it went through.

@justatiger6268 2 месяца назад

I'm wondering, are there any potential compatibility issues if one goes the old refurbished route such as seen at 2:55?

@digiblurDIY 2 месяца назад

You would have to go reallllly old where 64bit wasn't a thing.

@cjschneidt9089 Месяц назад

Do an advanced hardware video. What hardware do I need to run AI, the assist pipeline, etc?

@digiblurDIY Месяц назад

I haven't been impressed with any of the voice stuff myself in Home Assistant as of yet.

@emmgeevideo 2 месяца назад

I'm stunned that the HA developers haven't spent more time on ease of use. There are a lot of people (like me) who think it's kind of fun to open up a computer and fiddle around and type in commands, etc. I'll bet 98% of the potential user base isn't interested and/or doesn't have the skills. Why not create an HA installer that you could download onto a NUC or used Dell running Windows that you used to use for home computing, install via a few clicks, then reboot into HA?

@digiblurDIY 2 месяца назад

Totally agree.. I'd love to see a USB installer like many other projects have. Those are so damn simple.

@bigneilh 3 месяца назад

can you do one for HomeSeer now?

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Right have X10 and SmartThings okay?

@victoradao1965 Месяц назад

When trying to flash image with balena etcher I get a "Something went wrong. If it a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupt. The writer process ended unexpectedly."

@digiblurDIY Месяц назад

Use this version of etcher, we found that the latest version has problems: sourceforge.net/projects/etcher.mirror/files/v1.18.11/balenaEtcher-Portable-1.18.11.exe/download

@goodcitizen4587 3 месяца назад

Pi devices are too slow. Those beelink or any x86 are great.

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Exactly! They have their place of course for small projects but for full blown home automation. Nahhh... this is 2024.

@jalbert472 3 месяца назад

Thanks!

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

You bet!

@jalbert472 3 месяца назад

Your latest vid on setting up home assistant on an nvme drive was great. Also like the coverage of the Shelly devices I enjoyed also. Keep up the great work!!

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Awesome! I have some other HA setup vids of various things I've learned and been using for a few years now.

@YakovD71 2 месяца назад

Is it a must to have ZeegBee devices, or I can use my existing Tuya Wi-Fi devices?

@digiblurDIY 2 месяца назад

Those are most likely cloud unless you flashed them.

@tamildesan837 Месяц назад

Tuya aka smartlife killed the support for HA. So a big no for those devices. There are few devices that can be flashed with Esphome or LibreTiny but there is steep learning curve out there

@riffdex Месяц назад

Can I boot HomeAssistant directly from a USB drive without an internal drive?

@digiblurDIY Месяц назад

I think that's people are doing on the Pi with other drives.

@kennethojeke5119 3 месяца назад

thanks. can we install it on HP or Dell wise terminal ?

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Yes. I have seen people use these as well.

@rick9083 2 месяца назад

Can use some help for a newbie. Running windows 10. After starting etcher and opening down loaded file nothing happens.

@digiblurDIY 2 месяца назад

could you jump into discord and share some screenshots? discord.digiblur.com

@shweenie 2 месяца назад

Not sure if anyone else is having this issue but when using balena etcher, my writer process fails when attempting to install Home Assistant

@digiblurDIY 2 месяца назад

I haven't heard anyone reporting this.

@shweenie Месяц назад

@@digiblurDIY Using the version of balenaEtcher in your pinned comment solved the issue.

@tahaiftekhar6466 3 месяца назад

Hi guess. Dumb question. I just ordered a Beelink S12. I see it will come as a windows 11 preinstalled on it. Should I keep windows and run HA over it (I am guessing VM)? Or format the SSD (remove the windows) and put fresh HAOS on it ? Recommendations?

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Not a bad idea to backup the SSD in case you want to repurpose it later. I wouldn't run HAOS on Windows though unless you are just wanting to test it temporarily.

@tahaiftekhar6466 3 месяца назад

@@digiblurDIY So I already tested on my PC and then I set it up on Rasp pi 5 which was crazy expensive with heat sink + fan kit. I am returning that. I am already in deep with HA but with a lacking hardware lol. I will backup SSD and format it, install HAOS on it directly. Thanks !!

@tahaiftekhar6466 3 месяца назад

@@digiblurDIY I am also exploring PROXMOX. Don't have a clue what that is yet, will check and see if it is good for me and choose that

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

@tahaiftekhar6466 yeah. Not worth it with the Pi anymore with how competitively priced the NUCs are.

@tahaiftekhar6466 3 месяца назад

@@digiblurDIY Thank you sir, you are awesome :)

@motty154 Месяц назад

Nice video! How do make a backup of the software ?

@digiblurDIY Месяц назад

Of which one?

@adventure4thrills 21 день назад

@@digiblurDIY The windows 11

@mr.bianchirider8126 3 месяца назад

The HA Yellow has Zigbee. How hard and $ is it to put Zigbee on the Beelink ?

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

You are probably looking at around $30 for a decent USB stick which in my opinion will be better than the radio in the Yellow given it works damn solid with both ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT.

@kevinhilton8683 3 месяца назад

@@digiblurDIY What Zigbee USB stick you running? Conbee or something else?

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

@kevinhilton8683 CC2652P2 based chipset stick as I use Zigbee2mqtt myself for production.

@jolyonfavreau3160 2 месяца назад

Hey can I get some assistance here pls. I see there are two beelink links, amazon and aliexpress. The amazon looks cooler and doesn't appear to be the device used in the tutorial..... Is either device OK to use does anyone know?

@digiblurDIY 2 месяца назад

What does it come up as? I am seeing it match what I have. Comes up as the S12 N95 model.

@jolyonfavreau3160 2 месяца назад

@@digiblurDIY comes up as the NiPoGi Mini PC,12GB DDR4/256GB M.2 SSD,Ιntel Celeron N5105 Mini Computer(up to 2.9 GHz), Mini Desktop PC Support 4K Triple Display,Extended SSD,WiFi5,BT4.2, Small PC Home/Business/Office

@digiblurDIY 2 месяца назад

Weird. Must be Amazon switching the listing in your area. Is the Beelink S12 available?

@MM-vl8ic 3 месяца назад

get the kid to put shoulders slightly in front of hips and drop right leg back.....

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

Thanks and will keep in mind! His first round ever on both of them. Mainly going over the mechanics of things, safety & handling right now.

@VictorW168 2 месяца назад

it doesnt work.. both downloaded or url link. why?

@digiblurDIY 2 месяца назад

What's the error?

@rick9083 2 месяца назад

I am having the same issues

@michaels5167 3 месяца назад

Da BEST😂

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

The BEST part ;)

@nczioox1116 3 месяца назад

Why does Home Assistant need a raspberry pi when the tablet has hardware?

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

It needs to run somewhere in the closet or cabinet. I wouldn't run it on a tablet unless maybe you were just trying to out in a VM or something.

@nczioox1116 3 месяца назад

@digiblurDIY ok thanks. I saw some people control their HA with a wall mounted tablet but wasnt sure why the tablet couldnt be the brains as well as the interface

@digiblurDIY 3 месяца назад

I have seen some solutions like that but I would pass on that myself. When I get tired of the tablet since I didn't use it and just automated stuff what now?

@JbVest 17 дней назад

Bah lean ah etcher Not baleen, had me questioning how it was pronounced 😂

@digiblurDIY 17 дней назад

But do they use Yawmill?

@JbVest 17 дней назад

@@digiblurDIY lol 😆 The yawmill 🐪 ? But seriously dude I'm still trying to learn yaml 😩 go2rtc etc. So much info but not what I need!!

@JbVest 17 дней назад

The camel signifying the hump I'm trying to get over learning this stuff😂

@djashjones 3 месяца назад

Pi's are for Vegans and none of the cool kids hang out with the Vegans 🤣🤣

@dizzle8465 20 дней назад

Wish I could down vote this video more than once. Since when did people get the brilliant idea to start putting out tutorials without any troubleshooting attached to it? Why on Earth would you try to drive people to your discord or basically anywhere else that isn't this video for troubleshooting? Here I am following exactly identical tutorials and none of them have a single piece of troubleshooting to help people when things invariably go wrong. I appreciate the effort that you guys do but this is honestly half-assed because here I am f***** and now I have to f****** drag myself to some discord instead of some clearly laid out and simple troubleshooting.

@digiblurDIY 20 дней назад

I will try to cover all the issues next time in a troubleshooting one for you. What's your error so I can make sure it is covered?