Updated: How to Install Home Assistant on a Laptop with Generic x86 Image - No Raspberry Pi Needed!

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Looking to turn an old laptop into a smart home hub? Then this video is perfect for you! In this updated tutorial, you'll learn how to install Home Assistant on an x86 based laptop, which includes laptops with Intel or AMD processors. With Raspberry Pi's becoming increasingly difficult to get a hold of, repurposing an old laptop for your smart home needs is a great alternative. Whether you're a DIY enthusiast or a smart home beginner, this step-by-step guide will show you how to easily set up Home Assistant and turn your old laptop into a powerful smart home hub. Get ready to transform your home automation experience with this informative and easy-to-follow video!
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0:00 Intro
0:53 Hardware Prerequisites
03:08 Flash Home Assistant OS
13:34 Home Assistant Setup
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@BinaryTechLabs 8 месяцев назад

🛠 Troubleshooting Etcher Stuck or Frozen - Try Gnome Disk Tool: Hey everyone, I've noticed some of you are facing an issue with Etcher getting stuck. If you're encountering this problem, here's a workaround that might help: Alternative Solution: Gnome Disk Tool Some viewers have suggested using the "Gnome Disk Tool" as an alternative to Etcher, and it seems to work smoothly without these issues. Give it a try, and you might find it to be a reliable option for your installations. Feel free to share your experiences with Gnome Disk Tool or any other solutions you've come across. Happy experimenting, P.S. Remember, troubleshooting can vary depending on system configurations, so your input and suggestions can be valuable to others in the community. 🚀

@BinaryTechLabs 8 месяцев назад

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@markknight2768 8 месяцев назад

Great, informative video that I followed to a T and it worked perfectly on my old Thinkpad E520 laptop that was just sitting around collecting dust. Thank you for the step by step instructions! 👍

@BinaryTechLabs 8 месяцев назад

You're welcome, glad it worked out!

@Novation681 11 месяцев назад

Many thanks! With your excellent guide I was able to migrate to a spare Dell 7390 i7, Gen8 in a couple of hours. I have fairly large HA setup+frigate+multiple cameras (+ Coral). My old Synology DS218+ VM struggled a lot but it goes superfast with the laptop. Superhappy!

@BinaryTechLabs 11 месяцев назад

You are very welcome. Glad it helped you and thanks for taking the time to let me know ❤️

@Jean-Naimar Год назад

Debian 11 on windows 10 virtualbox with ha supervised is the best choice to keep full control of the systems and use apps off the 2 worlds. I use winsound to play wav files via mqtt messages and python scripts? also to send processor temperature to home assistant and windows SAPI tts

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

It's great to hear that you have found a setup that works well for you! It sounds like you have a solid understanding of these technologies and are using them creatively to accomplish your goals. Keep up the good work!

@Francoisdp82 Год назад

Thank you!

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

No thank you! Appreciate your support.

@MrSupersidewinder Год назад

Great option... Nice video... 👍😜

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Thank you. 😉

@iousa63 11 месяцев назад

Great video. I have only one USB port on my laptop. How can I boot Ubuntu from a bootable USB drive and then install HA without removing the USB pen?

@BinaryTechLabs 11 месяцев назад

You can use a USB hub

@ParkerToney65 День назад

Everytime i try and flash the home assistant image, it gives me an error opening source. Error: (0,h.requestMetadata) is not found

@BinaryTechLabs День назад

Hey, that error message is a known bug in the newer versions, you can try to use an older one, which is why I share the version I'm using, or use any other software like gnome disks like my pinned comment says.

@barryluft4451 Год назад

Thank you! Installation boots up on an HP ThinClient to the HAOS terminal command prompt. Then you just kind of skip over the next part.. what do I do next? it says put in the IP address into your web browser, but I can't find any web browser associated with HAOS. any suggesstions on where to go from the command prompt to actually get Home Assistant to start?

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Ah sorry, that hp thin client will get an IP address, use that ip address in another computer's web browser and you will see the onboarding page. Http://IP_ADDRESS:8123 The :8123 is the port that home assistant runs on

@barryluft4451 Год назад

@Binary Tech Labs Got it, thank you very much?

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

You are very welcome! Glad it worked out.

@raymondlardinois384 11 месяцев назад

I followed your instructions, but with Belena Etcher i couldn't flash the image to drive, the notbook froze at 33%. So i tried to write the image with the build in gnome disk and it worked. Then after restart i get a message "reboot and select proper boot device". I have set the boot in de Bios to UEFI, the secure boot option is not an option in my BIOS so i can't enable or disable this. I also checked if i could specify the EFI entry, i saw this at the Home assistant site, but when i "sudo efibootmgr" in the terminal it says "EFI variables are not supported on this system". That is strange becaus the Bios says i can enable and Disable EUFI Boot option. So i don't know what i can try next to make it work. I have a Samsung Series 5 NP535U3C-A02NL. Installing Ubuntu on the SSD works just fine.

@BinaryTechLabs 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the comments and supporting the channel. I think you are best to bring this up on the home assistant forum, where a dev would have the chance to help you.

@zyghom Год назад

I installed Debian 11 on the laptop and then supervised HA on it - works great as well

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Great to hear that, going that route is fairly advanced, as you have to manage a lot more, and the dev team does not really support that method.

@zyghom Год назад

@@BinaryTechLabs I think this is supported supervised option as per HA site

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Are you talking about running the python virtual environment one?

@zyghom Год назад

@@BinaryTechLabs no, you install supervisor from HA web page and it pulls entire HA then

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Yeah, ok. That is the advanced one, where you have to mange all the individual components yourself. You had to install apparmor, jq, dbus etc

@krayzieegg7294 Год назад

balenaetcher wont let me check the execute as program. i did the apt and libefuse2 still nothing. i tried double clicking it and it just said no application. can i just install ubuntu and make my laptop ubuntu instead of windows will i still be able to install home assistant?

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Balena etcher is not the program that does that. It's the live environment of Ubuntu that does. This will wipe out the laptop and it will be only for home assistant, and you'd use another computer to access the web interface. You need 2 USB drives for this, one is a bootable version of Ubuntu called a live OS, you plug it in to the computer before it boots and then it will boot from that USB

@jackinbe1000 Год назад

Just been following your tutorial, i've flashed my hard drive in ubuntu, But when i restart my Laptop and remove the memory stick it just says non bootable device found? when i insert my ubuntu usb again and check disk management its made 8 partitions is that right or am i missing something, thanks

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Yes it does make a lot of partitions, it's weird that it's not booting. Maybe double check your bios to ensure uefi boot and disable secure booting

@driftwoodturning6846 4 месяца назад

Im trying to get Belena on usb drive. Ive downloaded a etcher master. Is that the right one?

@BinaryTechLabs 4 месяца назад

I'm not sure, I've not seen it by that name. However, a lot of people are having issues with etcher, so I suggest you try gnome disk tool instead, as mentioned in my pinned comment.

@sistemleon Год назад

ubuntu froze and then logged me out... and i tought it didn't go trough but it did the job, just restart PC it will tell you to unplug the USB and it should work, just...wait about 15min after home assistant welcome screen appears, because it seems like its still doing something in the background where you are not seeing it even in CLI

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Thank you for the tip.

@MrTaz0079 11 месяцев назад

Do you have to be hard wired or can you use WiFi for setup and to run Home Assistant ??

@BinaryTechLabs 11 месяцев назад

The preferred method is hard wired, but you can use WiFi. Check out my first video on setting it up via WiFi if you need the help. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qmijXm3hmg4.html

@TheCrash486 Год назад

Thanks for the videos. First time I tried this everything went smoothly till the final boot. Just a blinking cursor. Plugged in usb drive, Ubuntu live, look at disk and there were multiple partitions with HA about the 4th one. None of them mounted. What should the disk partitions look like ? I'll try again and see what transpires.

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Home assistant will make 7 partitions, if I remember that correctly, it takes a bit before it unpack and installs everything, then it should connect to your network

@TheCrash486 Год назад

@@BinaryTechLabs gets to 26% freezes. Screen goes blank after a while then it presents the user name signon screen. If I perform a shut down, remove usb, a restart just gives a flashing cursor. No boot. 8 partitions are created but a huge portion of the disk is left unallocated. Using latest Ubuntu, 1.18 of balena, added the universal and libfuse2. Always has to be one person, right?

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Yeah, haha. Have you disabled secure boot and enabled uefi? It's the only thing I can think of

@TheCrash486 Год назад

@@BinaryTechLabs balena hangs at 36% everytime. Machine unresponsive. Partitions get created but no granted is unable to read contents of file system and partitions unmounted. If I run balena in a terminal I get a flash failed but no other messages.

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

That is weird. Others reported that flashing stops, but it does successfully flash. If you reboot up with the live environment it won't mount the drive. If you reboot without the live usb what happens? You should see this screen at some point.

@Noaman2022 Год назад

Nice video really

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Thank you for your comment and support

@DayoAworunse Год назад

Great video, however when I tried doing this and followed the steps and flashed the Image to my disk drive, upon reboot. I just get a spit out from Slot A on the command line of computer components and manufacturer.

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

What error is it giving you?

@DayoAworunse Год назад

@@BinaryTechLabs Looking at the logs, Im not sure there is any specific error. My guess is that the components in the PC arent compatible? (which would be weird) Just tried your method on another setup and it worked flawlessly.

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Hmm that is weird, it most likely is a hardware issue. Also thanks for the support and comments

@DrKalinoski Год назад

when i get to the step of verifying permissions on the balenaetcher appimage file, i can check the allow executing check box but it immediately unchecks. Thoughts?

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

That's a weird one, only thing I can think of off hand is somehow you don't own the file. So on the terminal in the directory where the file is try running this command to add the needed permissions: sudo chmod +rwx 'filename' Where 'filename' is the actual filename of the appimage

@DrKalinoski Год назад

@@BinaryTechLabs I think it had to do with how I formatted the file system on the drive that contained these files. i selected ms-dos fat. I dont think ubuntu can write to that.

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Did you reformat and try again?

@DrKalinoski Год назад

@@BinaryTechLabs no, I coped the files to the downloads directory in the live image, and then I was able to modify the permissions accordingly.

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Glad it worked out for you

@teezzz20 Год назад

Try the exact same procedure as you listed in the video, but I can never finish flashing, Etcher stuck at 28% percent and ubuntu stop responding. I already deleted all the partitions like you did in your video. Now my whole home is down because of this, any suggestion is appreciated!

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

The only thing I can suggest is to give it time, there are a few people who have run into this issue. I am not sure why that happens. In the many times I have done this, I've not been able to reproduce this. Sorry, I know that is not the answer you were hoping to get.

@teezzz20 Год назад

@@BinaryTechLabs I figured it out, Etcher is the problem here, I tried the builtin gnome disk instead, and it worked like a charm.

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Good to know, thanks for sharing

@theattorney6072 Год назад

Hello, i have installed HAOS on X86 64, flashed the ssd with etcher. However, superviser does not start, also i have a message waiting for HA CLI to be ready . Please Help

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

That is perfect, that's what you want to see, now also you should see an ip address there, use that ip address in another computer's web browser like this : Http://IP_ADDRESS:8123

@theattorney6072 Год назад

@@BinaryTechLabs Thank you very much. So it is normal that the message "waiting for supervisor to start up" and " waiting for the home assistant CLI to be ready" stays like that on the start screen ?. I Can Access home assistant on the app and browser, it is just those two messages that bothers me, I Wonder if the install is good like that and will be duly supervised.

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Yeah that is normal, and sometimes it takes a bit of time to get up and running after a new install. It's setting everything up. But it means that you have installed everything correctly

@theattorney6072 Год назад

@@BinaryTechLabs Thank you very much !

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

No problem

@tamersezer5164 8 месяцев назад

i cant choosing pc's disk on etcher

@BinaryTechLabs 8 месяцев назад

Do you get any errors?

@Kevdog2834 Год назад

Why does BalenaEtcher not allow me to select the System Drive (12:11 of this video; it shows as a hidden option but is not clickable... using BE v1.18.4-x64.AppImage AND USB is format as FAT32 AND Ubuntu is running off separate USB as NTFS in order to store whole ISO because file greater than 4GB)?

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Are you booting into a live Linux environment from the USB stick? That tends to happen if you are booting from the system drive, it won't let you erase it

@Kevdog2834 Год назад

@Binary Tech Labs Yes, booting into USB Ubuntu (believed to be live Linux environment; when laptop turns on hit ESC to choose boot from USB). This is on laptop: ASUS EEE PC 1005PE. As stated in video, X'ed out of Try or Install Ubuntu.

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

Secure boot is disabled in your bios?

@Kevdog2834 Год назад

@Binary Tech Labs This is an old Windows 7 laptop/notebook. Thought it's old enough that's not an option, looked for and not seen in BIOS.

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

And the bios is capable of uefi booting? Other than that I am not sure why it's blocking you

@boboc5 8 месяцев назад

My Chrome box stucks at 32% . Not responsive at all..no mouse, no keyboard... I leave it like this for a while because I see that the LED from the USB drive is still flashing from time to time. I don't know if is still installing or is just stuck...

@BinaryTechLabs 8 месяцев назад

Hey, as another viewer, terrancezhao mentioned, "Etcher stuck at 28% percent and stopped responding," so because Etcher was the problem, they used the built-in gnome disk tool instead, and it worked without issue. I hope that helps!

@boboc5 8 месяцев назад

@@BinaryTechLabs I just finished installing HA with Gnome. Thanks :)

@BinaryTechLabs 8 месяцев назад

Awesome! I am just in the process of pinning a comment so others in the future can see it right away.

@bloominfood152 Год назад

Could I use a cheap new Acer laptop for this?

@BinaryTechLabs Год назад

I don't see why not, only issue that you might come across is an unsupported network card, but if you do there are usb network cards or WiFi also works.