Home Assistant 2024 – Which Hardware to Buy + Full Install Guide
Home Assistant 2024 – Which Hardware to Buy + Full Install Guide
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 – https://amzn.to/3xZyQmD Sabrent NVME – https://amzn.to/3UhccNX or Dell USFF – https://amzn.to/3wgrOJJ – Beelink Aliexpress https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DEggxMT
*UPDATE – Error flashing via etcher? Use this version of etcher, we found that the latest version has problems:
https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/download/v1.18.11/balenaEtcher-Portable-1.18.11.exe
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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!
"beginner" and then you throw in abbreviations like "HAOS", "NVME" without explaining them. slowly spool your video and note all the things you have ASSUMED to be clear, because they are clear for yourself. Further – thanks for the vid.
I got a Beelink CPU box, set it up via this video, using a MacBook Air, and it worked! Took less than an hour.
Just get a ryzen 5900 and use 2 of the 24 cores to virtualize it.
What are yhe bluetooth requirements?
Old chromeboxes are getting cheap, just require a little tinkering to unlock, x86 based so you can run some more docker containers than a pi with the overhead.
Hi I have PI4 can i restore backup to the Beelink ?
I’ve been running Home Assistant on my NAS as a virtual machine for years, but lately after an update, I received an error message that my operating system is unsupported, but still work any advice?
Well. I just upgraded my HA machine to a HP Elitedesk G3 35w with a Intel i5-6500T 8gb DDR4 RAM, 256gb Sata SSD, that i got for free. The best thing is that it is repairable and upgradeable when needed.
For me it is overkill atm but it is more power efficent and morre powerful then my last machine.
I am so glad I found this video. I’m getting ready to move away from HomeKit and going to Home Assistant. I was looking at a Pi 5 with a fancy case and adding a NVMe and the price for everything was getting pretty hefty. These look to be a much better option.
when you saying wat you mean w/h?
Can I boot HomeAssistant directly from a USB drive without an internal drive?
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
Synology
What about running as virtual machine
After a power outage, is there anyway for the Belink to automatically restart without having to push the power button. Experience this on yesterday, and entire house was shutdown. No lights, roller shades open. My major concern would be if me and my family were on vacation. Thanks
Such a nice detailed explanation. I like what you did here. Just as it is, no bla-bla-bla 😉 Thanks Digiblur!
Hi! I followed your directions up to the point of getting everything flashed and turning it on. I am however trying to migrate from my existing HA green to one of these geekom computers. I am able to restore it from a backup on google drive but then when it asks me to log in it keeps giving me an error saying my log in and password are different. Now the only thing that’s different seems to be the IP address of of the 2 devices, the original ending in 194 and the new one in 202 but they are both plugged into the same Ethernet port. I know the username and password are correct, even tried Changing it several times and re-imaging but i can’t get it to work. I tried setting it up as a new device but then i can’t restore from the files. Please help! Just wanted to upgrade my hardware and i am very frustrated. Thank you!
Do an advanced hardware video. What hardware do I need to run AI, the assist pipeline, etc?
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
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Why, don’t you boot from live linux from an usb device and let the SSD inside of computer, and then, launch balena and select the SSD as target ?
you can also install it without removing the internal drive. Create a USB Ubuntu bootable disk, boot to it, right the image to the internal drive and reboot taking the USB stick out before it does
Thanks for great video, your son is really growing up , awesome.
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.
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 ❤
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.
Watching a bunch of HA stuff because I’m planning on settingg it up ofor my new house. I was pleasantly surprised to see Baton Rouge pop up! I’m watching from Covington!
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
You probably called your kid’s first years ‘onboarding’. #stupidbuzzwordsFTL
So if I buy the Beelink I don’t have the buy the Home Assistant Green? I can just download the Home Assistant software to Beelink? Total Noob.
So my Bee link has windows installed on the m.2. Do i need to format the drive?
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!!!!
with a mini pc hardware, what are the pros and cons of installing HA OS compared to just installing virtualbox and running it containerized?
Bah lean ah etcher Not baleen, had me questioning how it was pronounced 😂
Nice video! How do make a backup of the software ?
*UPDATE – Error flashing via etcher? Use this version of etcher, we found that the latest version has problems:
https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/download/v1.18.11/balenaEtcher-Portable-1.18.11.exe
When running home assistant on the windows box, I presume this requires python as well?
Does it run as fast on a Linux box?
Hey @anyone, I followed the install instruction using a Beelink, and I cannot connect to the home assistant with the homeassistant.local:8123 or the IP address. I can see a terminal via HDMI that says "Waiting for the home assistant CLI to be ready" at the top. The first time I connected, I got an error. I downloaded the text file and rebooted, ever since, I haven’t even been able to get the error. have you seen this before?
Does HomeAssistant have a plugin for the horse carriage at the end of the video?
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."
Thank you for the sabrent tip and explaining so well I have switched to haos fun times
Nice video ! if u got 2 minutes i wanted to ask some questions… HA+Beelink n95/n100 allow me to use SwitchBot contact sensor and SwitchBot Indoor/Outdoor Thermo-Hygrometer without owning a SwitchBot Hub?
And if they do, based on conditions mentioned:
1) it’s easy to integrate them in HA?
2) would they work both offline/local and in cloud?
3) for contact sensor do all statuses (open, closed, left open, light sensor, movement sensor, battery low notification) work to activate devices in smart home recognized by HA wich are not switchbot branded?
4) for thermo-igromerer is it also by humidity and temperature (and eventual other status) able to trigger non switchbot devices in HA?
Thx!
Okay so you sponsored that long black adaptor got it 😂 I probably don’t pop anything out. That is the most unnecessary thing in this video. Everything else good. Refurbished pcs great choice. If you got extra money go crazy.
hello!!! waving] i bought all the kit you suggested (the box was an upgrade actually 512ssd/16gb ram)….anyway, all installed but i get "waiting for supervisor to startup" on the cli and the ip/url isnt working @digiblurDIY
can you assist pls
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.
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.
I am a new home assistance (HA) user. Which HA hub I should use? Thanks
Very useful video, thanks. I would also love to see HAOS installed on similar hardware with proxmox. 🙂
Now I’m stumped. I get "Unable to connect when I try go to http://[IP}:8123 on my new Beelink setup.
In the router I can see that the machine has been given an IP, and that the MAC address is correct for the Beelink. I can ping the IP & get a response, and can also ping homeassistant.local:8123 and it resolves to the IP and gets a response.
My suspicion is that the web server isn’t started or something. Is there some way I can check that out?
Or do you have any suggestions otherwise?
thanx
r
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?
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.