How to set up Home Assistant on Unraid in 2022 (UPDATED)

[@thecookeman]

Juan, just want to say - so easy to follow mate; this is all new to me. You make it so simple and clear and no waffle in your content. thanks so much for your help!😃

[@andreix86]

You need to select the CPU threads in pair as they are shown in the UI when you create the VM. You selected just the threads from two different cores. I know it works but is not a good idea. You should select cpu 1 / 5 in your example or any other pair. Usually the first core (pair) should be left for the Unraid OS itself.

[@JuanMTech]

🤔 I didn't know that. Thanks for the feedback. Always welcome.

[@chesed]

I love the straight up no-nonsense, easy to follow instructions here. Lean and effective. Perfect. Thank you for this~

[@Uleepera]

Thank you so much, man. It means so much that you update your videos. Others were good for a brief time but now need to be more current and accurate. Thank you again.

[@nilleftw]

Thank you for the tutorial! Didn't know about the differences between Core and.. regular? Couldn't restore my backup and panicked. Worked right away when I followed this guide. Nice touch with the icon too.

[@JesseG2573]

Juan, you have the best tutorials hands down.

[@JuanMTech]

Thanks for the kind words. Always happy to help.

[@JesseG2573]

@@JuanMTech When you have the time, could you do a Wireguard follow-up to add Adguard Home to the router. Then all users can utilize the ad blocking

[@pashadavidson6808]

Pound for Pound, the best around

[@JesseG2573]

@@pashadavidson6808 Totally agree

[@RobertoCarvalho-0]

Amazing video, loved your guides! I have a suggestion that follows unraid and home assistant... I think a good topic would be to passthrough USB for Zigg Bee sticks. All the best,

[@b3owu1f]

Agreed.. this is one of the main things I assume people do.. buy a USB stick for zwave/zigbee.. so a link on this one to a follow up that talks about pass thru.. would be good. He DOES mention it briefly in this video.. but going in to more detail about setting it all up would be good.

[@iichrisphamii]

Thanks Juan! I followed you from your videos with rasberry pi. I am the process of building my NAS via UnRAID. Glad you were able to make this video. I was having issues with creating my VM and setting port forwarding. Got it all running!

[@WizenThorne]

Just found my new favorite ASMR channel!

[@Kliptrech26Rg001]

Great video, it's my first interaction with Unraid and Home Assistant, without your video I wouldn't be able to do all this, thank you very much for your work

[@JuanMTech]

You are welcome!

[@tbut7633]

I followed your guide to set this up a few months ago and it's run really well. Thank you!

[@gdeluca]

Excellent excellent excellent content and delivery. Really enjoying going through all of your vids!!

[@heldervilares9159]

I love the way you make everything so clear. video sugestion: after installing and setting up everything, how to make remote coneections available, since it is "Unable to create a certificate" for the cloud.

[@akanorman8894]

This was incredibly easy to follow, amazing tutorial

[@RossCanpolat]

Running HA the same way on Unraid for the last 6 weeks and it's been solid. It's nice to know I'm not limited by a RaspberryPi... If I need to I can provision more to the VM. Currently I'm running it on 1 core, no ht (Ryzen 3900x) with 2gb of ram and it's very fast. Boot time is seconds and I've noticed smaller tasks like taking snapshots are much quicker compared to a pi. Also the added benefit of regular virtual disk image backups through unraid so even if a snapshot fails to restore ha I can just redeploy the backed up image and I'm running ha again in less than a minute.

[@JuanMTech]

Yeah definitely solid.

[@fastrucken1555]

Ross... did you install mosquitto through the supervisor? I did but I can't connect to devices that way but not sure why.

[@As_the_Crowe_Flies]

What a stud! Thanks again for a super helpful video.

[@mattb7406]

Absolutely perfect! thanks! i did the docker first but missed the superv, so i did this option and perfect.

[@StuartColman1971]

Thank you for a nice and simple walk through. Helped me get everything set up and working. Looking forward to more.

[@Chris173972]

Thanks for the simple walk through. I thought it was going to be way more complicated as wasn't sure what formats was supported by unraid.

[@pashadavidson6808]

Now I am curious what installing Home Assistant core in a docker container entails. I think it was the "requires more steps" bit that got me. Another awesome video!

[@JuanMTech]

With the OS version you can easily update Home Assistant and you can also easily install add-ons and other integrations.

[@andreix86]

I had the docker version first and I switched to VM a few weeks ago. Using the core version in docker means that you have to manually install and configure other dockers like mosquitto, mariadb, nodered, vscode etc. The Supervisor found in Home Assistant OS is a much easier solution for this.

[@jefffrilot9667]

@@andreix86 I'm currently using docker(core) on Unraid, did you have any issues migrating over to VM? Currently everything works but Supervised seems like the way to go with all the new features they keep adding.

[@tarcisio_menezes]

What did you use to use before Unraid and why did you change to Unraid? Just asking because your answer may help me to decide which system to use. Thank you Juan! Your videos are awesome.

[@JuanMTech]

I was using Proxmox. I found Unraid easier to use. Also, it has the NAS feature which Proxmox doesn't have unless you add that via a VM.

[@mrbilky]

Nice explanation Jaun I've had my setup like this for awhile now but the icon setup made it that much better!

[@JuanMTech]

Yeah. It's nice to be able to change the icon.

[@Stube_F-24]

This helped me out a lot! Thank for this video.

[@kaivaja]

Do you happen to have a guide how to pass throught bluetooth to the HA VM?

[@thebaldfox]

Nice video but is there a way to achieve the same but via docker? Supervised in docker seems like the holy grail.

[@JuanMTech]

Nope. You can only set up the Core version.

[@DobuDobuDobuDot]

Digiblur made a docker version. It's only for testing purposes but it works.

[@MrMulcahyjohn]

hi great videos, could i ask im trying to install homeassistant on unraid 6.9.2 but it will not work the newly created vm starts but when i attempted to access it through vnc i just get a white shell screen and cannot access it from my browser either ive tryed vmdk and qcow2 any ideas please thanks john

[@omark1781]

Thanks Juan. Used this to setup my VM. Tried to setup remote access with your getting started with home assistant 2021 video. Kept getting errors at the nginx setup part. Would the ports that needed to be open be different if I'm using ha as a vm on unRAID?

[@jxdxpx]

Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for!

[@pjuhl2313]

So I followed the tutorial, but when I installed HA, it just gives me a green ha flashing icon. It does not say Welcome to Home Assistant and ask for a logon. Any suggestions?

[@waterslug4263]

Great videos! So I want to setup an unraid server and have a windows 10 vm running on it but also have a pcie capture card plugged into the motherboard. I was wondering how I can pass this through to the vm so I can use it with obs on the vm thanks.

[@IBRACORP]

Nice work mate :)

[@gd8711]

Hi Juan ! Thanks for the great tutorial. Do you know where I can find the /home/.homeassistant/custom_components/ folder of this VM ? I want to use HACS.

[@permacultureecuador2925]

you should add the URLs/downloads to the description.

[@koolkiwikat]

fabulous! goodtimes! thank you, I had to set Primary vDisk Bus: SATA and it worked!

[@fonso_s]

Hi, Juan, first, thanks for your tutorials. Second, do you know how to configure a bluetooth usb to use it with this setup? Thanks in advance

[@Dennis-qm4rd]

Many thanks for your post, again very understandable and well written manual. Perfect! I liked the last option, to change the icon. Didn't know that!

[@JuanMTech]

Glad to help

[@Dennis-qm4rd]

@@JuanMTech How is it possible, that I don't have the possibility to choose threads, but only logical CPUs? Do you know? I have a friend with exact the same NUC machine, and he cán choose threads. Any thoughts? I'd like to send a photo but Im not able to... He has: CPU 0 / HT2 CPU 1/ HT3 Where I have: CPU 0 CPU 1 Hope you are willing to help me out. Because now I have chosen both, and therefore no CPUs to use for dockers or a second VM?

[@iRunTech]

Great and super easy tutorial to follow. Thank you, sir!

[@DaManOommen]

Juan thanks for the tutorial. So I set up everything following DaveOTechs's tutorial (sorry I had commented earlier I had followed your tutorial but that was not true) a few years back (primary vdisk is SATA) and HA has been working very well. Yesterday my storage is full, so I increased the vdisk size from 32GB to 64GB, however the allocated size is still only 32GB and in HA the storage is still full. Any way to change the partition size, I have had to use the disk partition utility like disk part or gparted for my windows and Mac VM's. How do I do that in HA?

[@krzysztofk4255]

Thanks super helpful! How to increase disk capacity from 32 GB to 128 GB?

[@scottyy360]

Awesome tutorial, thank you.

[@markshaz8691]

Love your videos, thank you so much.

[@RubenZwaard]

Great video!

[@CA-FE-C0-FF-EE-00]

Awesome Guide :) Thank you

[@nigelholland24]

Another great video. Looks like we both swap to unraid about the same time. Thanks

[@JuanMTech]

Unraid has been awesome.

[@deanodad]

Always great, and the write-up is a tremendous benefit you provide, thank you. If you don't mind how can I reference a png from within Home Assistant, I want to add a floor plan to a card but I'm not sure of the path, I already have the file in the www directory but the full path is a mystery. Thanks in advance if you're able to help. all the best.

[@theLEFTY15]

Love it Juan! Thanks so much

[@JuanMTech]

Glad to help

[@WesleyIngeOutside]

Great guide but i've been struggling for a few days now to get the VM to work with my Nginx Proxy Manager installed as a docker container in Unraid.

[@kaneaqkeller]

I am also having difficulties with this although instead of Nginx Proxy Manager I'm using the nginx within the letsencrypt docker container.

[@gambler3k]

superb guide, tyvm

[@stevenmorris5546]

Thanks for the video, Couldn't find the link for the Home Assistant .png what is the size requirement anyone ?

[@na1du]

Hello how do you assign graphics card to the vm?

[@pawelnorek1633]

Thank you for sharing. I was trying that myself some time ago and noticed very low performance of Home Assitant VM. A lot of iowaits even though it was installed on SSD used for caching. Never experienced that on any other hypervisor. I found similar stories serching internet. That is why I gave up with unraid. Did you experience anything like that?

[@JuanMTech]

I haven't have any issues with it.

[@gambler3k]

how do i access the configuration.yaml file through the vm? have only used it on a rpi4 before

[@YTdnaYT]

Thank you Juan

[@onyourmark111]

After install and running for some time, I now have the problem of drive space too low. Any link to tutorial or suggestion on how to increase the drive size in unraid VM?

[@MarcoRagonesi]

Did anything changes with 6.9.1? I’m struggling because in my opinion performance is very bad.

[@n3xu59988]

There is an unraid plugin for VM Icons FYI

[@nikapin23]

Excellent!

[@EZBR]

if you're getting "unsupported configuration: emulator '/usr/local/sbin/qemu' does not support virt type 'kvm' " make sure your "SVM" option is ENABLED in MB bios for AMD CPUs and VT-x is enabled in MB bios for Intel CPUs

[@jcwade]

Make sure you have virtualizatin enabled in your BIOS or UEFI settings on your motherboard, if you let us know which board you have its easier to tell you exactly what its called and how to access your BIOS

[@klknopp5618]

@@jcwade MSI MS-7693. TIA

[@rodstephens6612]

Great tutorial.

[@JuanMTech]

Glad you liked it!

[@eddyparker10]

Help Asap! :( for some reason Unraid does not want to create the VM, it gives me an error "could not find capabilities for arch=x86_64 domaintype=kvm" any suggestions?

[@iichrisphamii]

check your bios. make sure svm is enabled.

[@CA-FE-C0-FF-EE-00]

You really should force SSL on your website :)

[@davidbeiler6364]

i can copy over to the smb share but it doesnt see it in unraid, the file ends in .xz when i download it from home-assistant

[@Kfrankie46]

Same, .xz is a compression format, when I extracted it with 7 Zip it came out to a qcow2 file that is about 780 MB but when I transfer it over to the folder in Unraid and try to boot the VM it doesn't work, it only boots into Shell, not quite sure what is wrong

[@Kfrankie46]

I figured it out, you need to delete the VM you created but keep the Vdisks, then create an Identical VM, and point it at the extracted qcow2 file that the previous VM was pointed at, after I did that the size of the Vdisk under the Vdisks column on the main VM page showed the size as 1/32G instead of 1/780M and the VM successfully booted, hopefully this information helps you and anyone else who stumbles on this issue

[@mathesonstep]

I need a storage server, I have been debating between FreeNAS and Unraid

[@JuanMTech]

Both are good but Unraid is easier than FreeNAS/ TrueNAS

[@rrrrrrrr290]

with unraid you can start with one or two drives and add other with not much trouble where with FreeNas you need to add all drives at start, if Im not mistaken i have been using unraid for a few years now and never had any problems with it

[@bakinblack90]

Unraid all the way!

[@JuanMTech]

You can start with a few and add more to FreNAS. However you would need to recreate the whole pool. It's pain. One of the reasons why I went with Unraid.

[@fastrucken1555]

Anyone having any issues using the mosquito addon? The main mosquito info page says its running but i cannot get a tasmota device to connect to it..

[@fastrucken1555]

Ended up solving this... I had 2 separate devices with the same IP... Resolved the conflict and mqtt works great now

[@jacobsamdal9611]

What am I doing wrong? I followed this and when opening to see it booting i just get something that has a bunch of words and then shell and a command line...

[@andrewshreffler2642]

I ran into the same issue. I got around it by setting it up as a Fedora VM instead of a Linux VM. Shouldn't have made a difference, but it did....

[@almaefogo]

@@andrewshreffler2642 Same problem Thanks for the tip

[@kermitjr]

I'm having this same issue. Defaults tot CLI and a ha> prompt. Reinstalled with fedora as template but still not working. EDIT: Whilst it still goes to that screen, I finally got access via browser. NOTE: In Unraid VM, set Networking to BR0 (not VirtBr) in order to access from your network.

[@pumbinha]

This is unfortunately not working anymore "out of the box" with the latest version of unraid (6.10.2). If the system does not boot, just change in the xml view the type of the node driver "qemu" to type='qcow2'. This way the system will boot without any further problems.

[@mr.v7842]

YES! This comment should be pinned to help others. Worked for me on most recent unraid after it would not boot.

[@DavidEiders]

Amazing video, but your comment made it even better.. Thanks for sharing!

[@tarcisio_menezes]

Awesome Juan! Your videos are excellent my friend! Thank you! Btw, where do you live? Just curious... 👊🏻🤓

[@吕辉-i5f]

good

[@BenClementPhotography]

Anyone else just get a prompt and nothing else? 🤔

[@mrpixxx]

Thanks Juan! amazing video. I followed this video and previous video closely but i still dont have supervisor. any advice please?

[@tvd1188]

Missing from this tutorial. The qcow2 file comes compressed from the homeassistant site. You'll have to un-compress it in a command line prompt: xz -d -v filename.tar.xz