Home Assistant Installation Methods EXPLAINED!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Who's here for the cakes? 👀🎂

[@dandegennaro]

Cakes analogy works well. For the future video, why don’t you help us to integrate gesture recognition with fingerpose on home assistant?

[@dandegennaro]

I’m referring to the implementation of this ai application: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b363moSDrbmLhqc

[@EverythingSmartHome]

That looks interesting...and difficult!!

[@easthulk99]

I like chocolate cake

[@EverythingSmartHome]

I'm partial to a cheesecake...does that count!?

[@wagnerfontes2]

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.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks Wagner! And yes I find a lot of people confused about these, glad you are happy with the decision!

[@jaydenlee3103]

As a beginner trying to get into HA, this makes it very clear. Thank you for the great video

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks, glad it was useful!

[@hildalopez1252]

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!

[@My-noname]

Cleared up all the installation types 😂😂 Well, let's put it like this. I'm still confused, but on a higher level, so job well done.Thank's for that.

[@MattDub805]

Cakes 👍 This video should be mandatory!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks Matt! Glad it was useful!

[@paulhoover5511]

Upside-down Cakes? Good times! :D

[@fedefede843]

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!

[@lua-nya]

I just wanted to say that docker is **one** way to to run the Home Assistant container. I personally use podman, and some use kubernetes.

[@gg-gn3re]

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?

[@dannyjensen4954]

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?

[@markheatherington8367]

Thanks you for the well explained video right down to the CAKE

[@yoerim360]

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

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Cakes! And if they think it should have been layered the other way, they can have Upside-down Cake! Great job, as always!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks! Upside down cake...I'm hungry again!

[@wagnerfontes2]

The upside-down cake is the perfect analogy here!

[@Tekc92]

“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.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Haha thanks Tom, appreciate it! Good luck with the move!

[@5tedes]

Eddie Izzard. Love your videos...thank you and keep it up.

[@davidheron1505]

That was excellent. A definitive explanation.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks David!!

[@fearthesmeag]

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.

[@jeffjohnson3620]

Home assistant & Hombridge together on NUC. Which install should I choose?

[@eruisiwang]

Is there a way to install HA with: 1. support add-on; 2. able to manage OS settings (modify /etc/*); 3 run on QNAP virtualization station

[@aaronharvey6406]

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.

[@karthikreddy2763]

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!

[@jellyjenn12291]

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

[@streetwiztech5505]

Had to pause half way through.. for a snack obviously ! Jaffa Cakes for the win ! Keep up the good work buddy.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Oh that's going to cause an argument with someone, is it a cake?! 🤔

[@streetwiztech5505]

@@EverythingSmartHome definition is a cake when stale goes hard, when a biscuit goes stale it gets soft.. argument avoided ! :-)

[@mouhssinemhe4194]

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

[@058Jacko]

CAKE 🎂 Thumbs up for analogy like this

[@Dumdadum76]

Well, this really clears things up! Thank you.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks, glad it was useful!

[@surgical_17]

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

[@panosgor]

Γειά σου Κώστα, συμφωνώ με τον προ-λαλησαντα, αυτοκόλλητα στο λαό! Σε πάμε πολύ

[@DudemasterDE]

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...

[@ValZakharov]

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.

[@tarunarya1780]

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.

[@shacharr73]

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]

You would simply restore from backup and it will go back to the previous version

[@shacharr73]

@@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?

[@realasadkhan]

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

[@TomWhi]

Cakes! Great video bud

[@willyouwright]

What about perfoemance loss of each. And running app like nvr along side in its own seperate containers?

[@cyrusmohammad9639]

Hi Can I use a SSD with raspberry pI 3 b+?

[@Ian-yt6kv]

How on Earth did you manage to remember all the different combination of cake layers?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Through deep studying for many hours of cakes...was a difficult job but someone had to do it!

[@058Jacko]

Next video MUST have a physical cake!

[@Ian-yt6kv]

@@EverythingSmartHome Such a selfless act. The world would be a poorer place without this kind of self sacrifice. 😉

[@058Jacko]

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]

Thanks, appreciate it! That one is planned 👍

[@058Jacko]

@@EverythingSmartHome nice! Don't know if it's possible for me to update.. but would love the benefits of Supervisor

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Unfortunately not on Synology AFAIK. Unless you can run VMs?

[@058Jacko]

@@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

[@DerekHolmes]

I moved my HA install from my Pi to my Nas directly on a VM. Now it says my install is Unsupported because I don't have a OS Agent. Any tips?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

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!

[@nicoladellino8124]

Very nice video, TNX.

[@markustippmann2313]

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]

Hey Markus, pretty much everything in this video is the information you need to decide!

[@markustippmann2313]

@@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.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

It sounds like you have the answer then 😅

[@matejhlaca5171]

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?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

You could install a hypervisor instead and run a VM

[@matejhlaca5171]

@@EverythingSmartHome What os take less resouces (power): windows or ubuntu? What os is better to install?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Anything but Windows 😂 but use something like proxmox - it's free and a better choice for VMs

[@3D2eNano]

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!!

[@JohnDoe-bd5sz]

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.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

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.

[@JohnDoe-bd5sz]

@@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"...

[@EverythingSmartHome]

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.

[@JohnDoe-bd5sz]

@@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 :)

[@pavolholes]

Cakes! 😂 Thanks for video. Finally I understand all these terms, thanks for explanation!

[@tomekhekin914]

Cake and everything clear!

[@soumynonareverse7807]

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?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Yep that's correct! Perhaps one day but unfortunately I don't have any devices at the moment I could use for that

[@davidheron1505]

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?

[@grantos8276]

Is there any where that states what size eMMC you need to install HA OS on odroid N2+ ??

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Don't think so, it's not a massive amount

[@grantos8276]

@@EverythingSmartHome cheers, I forgot to buy storage. But have a 64Gb eMMC. can’t see why I would need the 128Gb like that of the Big blue

[@kevinpinheiro2485]

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]

Hey Kevin, as mentioned in the video Ubuntu isn't a supported OS for running Supervised unfortunately

[@kevinpinheiro2485]

@@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]

Sure, Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian!

[@kevinpinheiro2485]

@@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

[@1988m6kitefan]

Cakes! This helps a lot.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Nice, glad you found it useful!

[@alejandrortl]

Love it. I got hungry

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Me too, many times while making this.

[@BenSycha]

Good video, cleared up a few things. Want cake

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Sorry about that...have some cake!

[@tweebs1]

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.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

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 😉

[@shaunwhiteley3544]

When you say NUC version, does that mean just any old pc or laptop? Or it has to be a NUC? If any pc or laptop then that is really badly named!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Hey Shaun, no there is pre-built images specifically for the Intel NUCs. Hope that makes sense

[@tomaszgasecki]

Moved from VM in QNAP to 8th gen i5 NUC (supervised on debian) - night and day. ... if you hesitate do no more

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Nice, the NUCs are so compact!

[@kavinvarnan3056]

NUC is much better than raspberrypi. But why did you go with Debian instead of Home Assistant OS. Any specific reason?

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

Isn't there like a native version for pc to boot INSTEAD of windoes? why I gotta go through that bullsht virtual machine through windows?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

You don't, there are many ways to do it

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

@@EverythingSmartHome next time just paste a link in the right direction. Saves time and effort and helps others wondering. Thanks for the reply, still.

[@superslash7254]

Breath my dude, breath. Do some cardio, I feel like I'M out of breath watching you gasp every three seconds.

[@rob1971]

The cake is a lie! 😉

[@sarasagar76]

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..

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Hop in the discord server my friend!

[@sarasagar76]

@@EverythingSmartHome what that means?

[@nuria.sakura]

cakes!! but y do you seem like you just finished a marathon? kkk

[@brettiphone4]

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

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Haha fair enough! Although you weren't paying attention if you are still calling it hassio - hassio no longer exists 😜

[@brettiphone4]

@@EverythingSmartHome yeah you're right! you mentioned that as well, might have to give me private lessons then

[@arunankam]

CAKES!! CAKES!! CAKES!!!!!! and more CAKES!!!!

[@PetervanHofwegen]

Cakes!

[@Toucherjo]

Bro, you said "Home Assistant" a bazillion times. In the middle of the video it starts to get funny every time you say it. Good video though.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

I mean...it is a video about describing home assistant installs where they literally have home assistant in the name of the version...😅

[@f4ramadhana435]

👍👍👍❤️

[@nathanking2484]

Cake :)

[@scottjones6892]

CAKE

[@arnavjindal3021]

Cakes 🎂

[@richardburguillos3118]

Mmmmm caaakes. Layers.... like Shrek says... I get it...

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Haha that scene actually crossed my mind when I was making this!!

[@kamil2k111]

Cakes :)

[@Boabee]

Just found this video.....

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Haha nice one 😅

[@TheAMadMan]

The cake is a lie!

[@1111rednaxela]

Cakes🍰🎂

[@aashaytambi3268]

Cake? cake.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Always cake.

[@jordandeboer-piedt1468]

cakes!

[@scoten]

cake

[@Mirut88]

The cake is a lie !!!

[@aerobill8554]

Cakes…

[@fuzzbreezie81]

Cakes

[@ThorNetland]

Cakes....

[@mumbles1justin]

🎂🎂

[@vermeulengert]

Cake

[@VahidEsmaeilzadeh]

cakes.........

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[@caladrien44]

The cake is a lie.

[@c42xe]

cacks

[@miketony2069]

Cakes!

[@DanangWidiantoro]

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[@efswwer5347]

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[@EverythingSmartHome]

Mmmmm Cakes!

[@jontesart7213]

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[@ChrisCanuk]

Cakes

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Haha cheers Chris!

[@SimonKenyon]

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