Finally a clear and simple explanation about these terms! When I started HA I chose the VM just because it was the only method I understood. Luckily I found out (a year later) it was a good choice for my system.
OMG. It only took me about a year to finally get it installed properly thanks to your video. FINALLY, I have Home Assistant on the laptop... now to fill up my cards. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Hi, I am using core only in a RPi4. I would like to see a video on what I am really missing with supervised add-ons really. Maybe a top ten list or similar, just to see if it is worth it to move towards that. Thanks!
“Cake or death” bonus points if you know the reference. Thank you for this as I am planning out my HA for when I move into a new home. Keep up the great work.
I finally understand after watching your install video on HA Supervised? Maybe now tell us how to update from Debian 10 to 11 without blowing up our HA layers?
What does the supervised one do? I can't find any info. I have a server, running many things, I don't use docker. Core is very easy to install but the addons on it look like a nightmare to do.. Supervised says on it that your OS needs to be DEDICATED to running it with NO ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE. So truly the only methods available are Core and the containered version of core?
Really great explanation, I installed home assistant in my Mac via virtual box and able to browse the url successfully but the only problem is when I close my mac lid virtual machine stops running, I tried googling on how to solve this issue specifically on mac and ended up no where, any help would be much appreciated!
do you have a recommended Intel NUC that I should buy? I currently have homeassistant running on an Odroid but think i'm starting to outgrow it and would like a more powerful system
tried to use the install- guide on their site for the HA OS but only thing that balena seems to do is creating a bunch of non formatted partitions that are hard to get rid of
Ive installed HA via Synology - Docker, there was a built in HA image which I installed. However, it does not have Supervisor as I think I need it to run command lines. Just purchased TP-Link Plug P110 and its not supported, as they are not found via integration.
Good morning Lewis. I'm digging through millions videos and tutorials how to migrate my home assistant that is currently running on raspberry pi 4 with docker over to VM on Netgear NAS. That NAS is brand new and currently empty, so I'm at step zero right now. Would you please recommend me some nice video 1. how to setup VM on Netgear NAS and 2. how to move my HA from raspberry to that VM. That NAS is planned to used as my home cloud, I wonder is it possible to use it together with HA in it? Many thanks, Val.
Hello, I have a Dell Optilex, I would like a TrueNAS OS and Home Assistant OS on virtualization. Or there is other options you recommend for better Home Automation, Video Surveillance and NAS.thank you
Hey Man. How about doing a video about Vacation Mode for HA?. How to create one and let your lights turn on randomly while you are away. I don't see a lot of videos regarding this topic that works well
Hey, thanks for the video. Very helpful! I have a question though. Does Home Aisstant have root permissions? Asking because I think about opening a port...
Love this. Hard to follow your videos sometimes when your using HA Supervised as I can't install Visual Studio etc. Would like to see how to change version s. CAKES
@@EverythingSmartHome AFAIK? & Not yet, looking to boost the RAM before I use VMs... But you did open my eyes to buying an old office PC.. those are good for running 24/7 lol
Loved the video. Please explain home assistant OS and how to use its base operating system commands for recovery. I used the raspberry pi 4 image and when I go onto a keyboard attached to the pi , get the cli. What is this. How can I use linux type commands. i seemed to have locked myself out of the OS. Samba is no longer available including files I was storing there. How do I see my files and the directories. How to I change/ hack the password or see the directory to do it.
Thanks a lot for sharing all of this, I have zero knowledge about this things and I've been able to install HA in a Raspberry with remote access just following your videos. Could you please explain some day about Python3 access? an add on from HACS needs to run pip3 and I really don't know how to do that because typing in the terminal or directly in the raspberry the system says that the command doesn't exist, I can't find any explanation about that subject. Thanks!!
I have HOOBS installed on a raspberry pi hub ssd. I wish to know if there is anyway to install Home Assistant on that hub running at the same time. Thanks.
Got me even more confused. I installed home assistant from the RPi imager from other specific OS & Home assistant. Now i wish to install portainer & docker to install pi-hole & Homebridge but I'm confused as to how to do that
So, what if I just want all features HA has on a Linux distro. Should I go for the Supervized version? Am I correct in saying that you'd recommend Debian over Ubuntu? Could you make a video on how to use rpi_gpio or remote_rpi_gpio on a non-rpi system that does have GPIO if that makes sense?
Thanks. if I would like to install older core version and leave all the rest AS IS. is it possible ? latest CORE broke some integrations that I use...other way around maybe you can have a session how to pull previous integration and be able to run it from config. thanks a lot
@@EverythingSmartHome if I had the backup...is there a way to just go to older core and leave all cfg? I guess not. What about pull "older" integration from github?
I am currently looking into upgrading my existing Raspberry Pi 4 2GB Home Assistant setup with an SSD. I have read several guides. The easiest way is probably to stick to the Home Assistant OS and have the Pi do its job the same way as before. But I have also read of people installing Debian 10 to the Raspberry and running Home Assistant Supervised. What exactly would be the benefit of going down this route. Personally I currently aim more towards the OS, it just seems less effort/maintenance and I don't see any use cases where the Debian OS would help me.
@@EverythingSmartHome Yes, tue HASS OS is probably the most care free option. However I could not install anything not available via add-ons. Installing Debian and Home Assistant supervised would leave me in charge of keeping the OS updated and compatible to the Home Assistant instance, but I have the freedom to install anything as I would be running a regular Linux distribution. I understood that and your video was very helpful, but still I personally don't see the use case for the additional work going down the supervised route and therefore tend to be going towards HASS OS.
So if i have a Raspberry pi 4, that is already running Pihole, unbound and unifi controller, it is not possible to install HA supervised onto this and run them at the same time ? (Running RaspberryPI OS) Would be nice to not have to have one PI, just for HA, but be able to have it do Pi-Hole, with unbound, and unifi controller as well.
All of those things you mentioned are already available as add-ons inside of Home Assistant, so yes it is possible. The other way is to run Debian on the Pi and install supervised that way, then install the apps you want.
@@EverythingSmartHome I tried installing home assistant OS, and i actually got the unifi part working via home assistant I am unable to located unbound and pihole. There is an adblocker DNS program called adguard home, but then i still need unbound, and i can not even get the adguard program working. installs fine and starts up, but when i point my computer to the IP of the HA Pi, it never resolves any DNS adresses and i get "You are not connected to the internet". Seems that everything you do with a raspberry pi (Linux) involves a lot of tinkering to get things working. Really frustrating that nothing works "out of the box"...
AdGuard is far better than PiHole, IMO of course. You can use DNSmasq instead of unbound, both available in the add-on store. Well yes, a raspberry pi is a tinkerers project, it always has been aimed at tinkerers, that's the entire purpose of it. It sounds like you perhaps went into with unrealistic expectations? Remember, every bit of software you are working with is "free" software, so expecting things to be plug and play is a little unrealistic.
@@EverythingSmartHome I can handle myself when it comes to computers, it's just that with windows i have gotten used to stuff just working. :) The unifi plugin said "one touch installation" but i used atleast an hour figuring out that the reason it did not run, was that it was set as default to use SSL, but there were no SSL certificate, so either i had to install a ssl certificate or turn off the need for one. One thing is for sure....Home automation will never be something for the masses, it still feels like being very much in beta stage :)
I have old Thinkpad laptop that dont have uefi..When I put the image on drive it cannot boot (only black screen). Soo...what metod to use? Install windows of ubuntu? What you sugest?
Thanks to your vids, I have my HA configured pretty well with a few minor quirks related to installation method. I'd like to jump ship on my installation and install HA OS on Pi4 from HA docker installed via IoTstack script. Can I restore a snapshot from one installation to another or will I have to eat all the cake? I mean reconfigure. Cakes very much! Damn it, now I want cake.
That's great to hear Ryan and thanks for supporting the channel both through commenting and watching and for becoming a Patron, hugely appreciated! I would advise watching tonight's video is all I will say 😉
If you went for supervised then you need to install the OS agent manually, if you click on the error message then it gives you instructions how to do it, very simple!
I'm running home assistant ( doesn't have integration store in it) on Ubuntu Inna raspberry pi. I want to run hassio on it but I'm not getting it. I'm using docker. Any links on how I can do this. I'm also running Plex server on the same raspberry pi having Ubuntu. Plex is streaming from a USB hard disk
@@EverythingSmartHome yeah you said Debian. Can I run Plex on that ? Ive seen Plex integration in home assistant but it's not meant to read from a hard disk. It's more of a Google cast kinda feature
@@EverythingSmartHome ok I have no much clue about Ubuntu and all. Before I used home assistant directly on the pi. Then I wanted to integrate Plex so I had to start using docker and Ubuntu. Anyway I'll just try it out. Thanks
Has anyone managed to get the layers of HA Core and Supervisor to operate using balena OS flashed to a Raspberry Pi? Because of the balena OS you have to use the HA Core. Can Supervisor be added and if so how?
@@EverythingSmartHome next time just paste a link in the right direction. Saves time and effort and helps others wondering. Thanks for the reply, still.
its still confusing AF xD all this video has taught me is i'm hungry for sponge cake and your beard is going grey! My Home assistant atm says it has an update, i update it, it restarts...update is still there! This seems to happen to me a LOT with hassio. i can only ever fix it by reflashing an updated image
Hello sir, I follow your channel. I am having trouble flashing rasbian os or home assistant os on microsd card. I have window 10 pro pc with 64 bit. I try with multiple card reader, and usb adapter and different sd card...but I am unable to flash os using balena etcher. Please guide me..
