UPDATED: How to install Home Assistant on Windows!

[@luccicorp]

I had HA running in less than 20 minutes. Thanks for this video.

[@fasthowto]

Awesome, glad to hear it! Thanks for watching!

[@jackt6112]

There we go. Perfect! We don't want mess around with yet another box on the network when we already have PCs with power to spare, better hardware, easier to use, no frogging around, and we end up with a system that is portable to PC we upgrade to.

[@fasthowto]

Glad you like the video; thanks for watching!!

[@thecraigmcrae]

This video was phenomenal - super easy to follow, and I am so happy to have this running so quickly.

[@fasthowto]

Thank you so much for the kind words, and thanks for watching!!

[@GamingTrivia1113]

yes, it was so good and easy to follow, not sure why the website says this is expert

[@markruffner7378]

Thanks!

[@fasthowto]

Thank you so much!!

[@jessebauer3140]

There are a few different reasons I can see to have elevation as an option. The main one would be cooking. If you ever look at your box of macaroni and cheese, it tells you to change your cooking time due to elevation. And with all the recipes that come through the Google Assistant and smart cooking, it will change your cooking times.

[@SKELETON_FN]

Thank you so much for such a straightforward step-by-step guide. Worked first time with no issues. You got yourself a new sub!

[@fasthowto]

Awesome, glad to hear it! I actually just recorded an updated version of this. Comes out tomorrow morning. Thank you for watching, and thanks for the sub!

[@VickyAndhika]

auto subscribe for the well explained tutorial. love the t-shirt btw

[@fasthowto]

Thanks for the sub, and thank you for watching! :)

[@bigtimedwarfer]

I had an issue with Home Assist picking up my network. After a bit of digging it turned out that when I selected Bridged Adapter it hadn't defaulted to "Realtek PCI GbE Family Controller" in the sub dropdown as shown here. Once I made that change it worked.

[@Tinker_Box]

Great! I now have HA on my windows PC, thanks to your video!

[@fasthowto]

Awesome, glad you were able to get it working! Now just watch the other 62 videos for all the other cool stuff you should set up. :)

[@SimoneMalakay]

Wonderful guide! May I ask if, in order to keep the triggers and the schedule up/running, you must have this OS constantly running? Because in case of positive answer, I'd imagine that to better keep it locally, one must have a mini pc of sorts, right?

[@fasthowto]

Correct on both counts. This type of install is good for "I just want to test this out", or "I have a big complex deployment and I want a system I can mess with to figure something out without breaking the rest of my house." I would not run a production deployment using this method, but some people do...

[@MrCarson24]

Fantastic video. HA up and running within mins. Great hair by the way; don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. Cheers.

[@fasthowto]

LOL Thank you! After a few years with the clippers, you get to be not so bad at it. :) I'm glad you liked the video, thanks for watching!!

[@jackscrafts9202]

Thanks. I did get an error - Had to go in AMD Bios and enable SVM (allow virtual machines)

[@WitherSkeleton55]

when I try to start it The virtual machine failed to boot. That might be caused by a missing operating system or misconfigured boot order. Mounting an operating system install DVD might solve this problem. Selecting an ISO file will attempt to mount it after the dialog is closed.

[@simigherman9775]

Did you solve it ?

[@husky9370]

enable EFI, its in settings -> system -> enable EFI , hope im not too late here !

[@WitherSkeleton55]

@@husky9370 lol late reply bro I host it on proxmox vm now in days

[@theattorney6072]

Hello, can you still use the pc for office and web tasks with that windows install ? Also should WE create a dedicated folder for home assistant or should it be better to partition the SSD ?

[@fasthowto]

You can use the pc for whatever you like, and there is no need for a different partition. Great questions, thanks for watching!!

[@tarun-khandelwal]

What happens when the PC is turned off? Do the automations still work and are the smart devices connected with HA?

[@sedinix]

no@@tarun-khandelwal

[@ElvPresidente]

I'm just setting this up now. I live in a block of flats (UK) - (An apartment block), and I'm on the second floor. I'm guessing the elevation part is for that.

[@fasthowto]

Could be! I'm not sure.

[@risheekrenikunta715]

2:30 my system gets crashed when ever I access home assistant url. How to rectify this ??

[@valentindellagiacoma7875]

each time im pressing ''start'' it says aborted, what could be the issue?

[@MATTSCOTTR]

Strange question: Dual Booting Is it possible to install 2 operating (HAOS & Windows) systems on 1 PC by dedicating 1 SSD to either?

[@fasthowto]

Great question! Yes, it is possible. What you are describing is called "Dual-boot". I did a video on how to install HAOS onto an x86 PC that you may find valuable if you are going to go this route. Thanks for watching!

[@mjcoughlan123]

this is great info. Worked when I installed everything, but now that I had to reboot my laptop, HA isn't coming up anymore. I get the error msg: Site can't be reached. (IP Address took too long to respond.) When I went in to start the VB manager, I get this message: Failed to open image 'C:\Program Files\Home Assistant\haos_ova-12.1.vdi' for writing due to wrong permissions (VERR_VD_IMAGE_READ_ONLY). How do I fix this?

[@fasthowto]

That sounds like a file permission issue. Check to make sure that the "read only" checkbox isn't checked on the .vdi file, and check to make sure that you are running Virtualbox as administrator. Also, in the future, make sure the VM is cleanly shut down, and Virtualbox is shut down, prior to rebooting. Issues like these are the reason I only use Virtualbox for test/dev/tinkering, and not as my primary Home Assistant server. Windows Updates and unexpected reboots they cause can really give you headaches. Hope you were able to get it fixed, and thanks for watching!

[@wirespeedtod]

Thank you! Glad I found your video. I have a bar with 19 TVs unfortunately it is a mixture of non Samsung products so control of those are not possible on the SmartThings app. Also I don't need to use a manufacturer login account to control the TVs or have my switch talk to the outside world and auto download annoying apps or updates.

[@fasthowto]

As long as they are wifi-connected, there's probably an integration for them in home assistant.

[@showme360]

I got as far as entering the the ID address, and added the :8123 at the end, and checked by virus protection system were not blocking it. But this does not connect, any ideas?

[@carpfun4789]

Not in a hypervisor partition (HVP=0) (VERR_NEM_NOT_AVAILABLE). VT-x is disabled in the BIOS for all CPU modes (VERR_VMX_MSR_ALL_VMX_DISABLED). Result Code: E_FAIL (0X80004005) Component: ConsoleWrap Interface: IConsole {6ac83d89-6ee7-4e33-8ae6-b257b2e81be8} that says :(

[@ahmadk5844]

got the same error, did you find a solution?

[@lazzarae]

Me too :(

[@Xistn]

update SVM if AMD (IVT if intel) in your bios

[@wayneyeo186]

Thank you for creating this video. I was having some trouble with the install, and it turned out the instructions i was following from another source were not clear a few technical details... ohhh say, ensuring everything is installed in admin mode, causes no end of herding cats problems. I followed your instructions, and everything fell into place.

[@fasthowto]

Awesome, glad to hear it!! Thank you for the kind words, and thanks for watching!

[@djfatti]

so with this method, when we plug in a zigbee usb dongle, it would find it? my question is, does virtual box have USB Passthrough? or you would need to install Zigbee2MQTT on windows and MQTT on the VM to be able to communicate with the zigbee dongle?

[@fasthowto]

Virtualbox has USB passthru. Thanks for watching!

[@duheaumep]

hi, great video, what would you recommend as a min disk size for the NUC 250Gb SSD or more?

[@fasthowto]

Thanks! The Intel NUC that I used in the video (linked in the video description if you want to check out all the specs) came with a 256GB SSD. As for what side disk you would need for your particular use case, that depends on lots of different things. I'm actually working on a video right now about the different Home Assistant installation types, pros/cons, and what is needed for them. Be sure to subscribe to get notified as soon as I release it, and thanks for watching!

[@sub-zero814]

Mine is stuck at the preparing home assistant. Any ideas?

[@DougArdy]

Thank you for the very clear explanation, great video. I do have a question for you though. Can I follow these instructions to install HAOS on an existing Windows 11 PC that I am currently running other programs on (Blue Iris, Channels DVR, etc.)? To put it another way, it won't delete my current OS or programs, correct? They will continue to work along side of the new HAOS?

[@fasthowto]

Absolutely. This just runs as another piece of software. If you want to install it baremetal, I have another, more recent video on how to do that. I actually made a couple, so be sure to watch the updated one. The first method was a bit too difficult, in hindsight. Thanks for watching!

[@musicaudiocreations-thegur8926]

If im using windows operating system, on your video on 1:10 you choose Linux, so im supposed to choose windows operating system?

[@fasthowto]

No. Follow the instructions as shown.

[@alexgreen7459]

Good vid! So i run blue iris with 6 cameras on windows. You think this method will slow the pc alot?

[@fasthowto]

That will depend on the resolution of the cameras, the specs of the PC, and what other services/VMs are running on the PC.

[@johnmilan5668]

When i enter the ip address i get a blue screen and computer resets any help plz

[@Ron.88]

I get some kind of failure on my Network Manager and my home assistant does not display an IP address at all. Any advice? Update: I disabled wifi and connected an ethernet cable. Apparently this does not work on WiFi.

[@crsman15]

Thanks for the video. It was perfect. I'm about to set up my home assistant! This is my first time here btw!

[@fasthowto]

Sweet! I'm glad you found it helpful, and I'm super glad to hear you found the channel. I'm actually JUST now finishing up how to install Home Assistant on the NUC from that video, so if you have an old PC laying around that you wanted to install onto bare-metal, that video should be done in a few hours. Running as a VM on Windows is obviously possible, but it's not the preferred method for a production Home Assistant server. Windows might reboot on you because of updates, then the VM needs to be restarted, all sorts of stuff. I use it as a test/dev environment to play around in and explore and test stuff out before making the changes on my production Home Assistant server. In any event, thanks for watching, much appreciated! :)

[@duheaumep]

@@fasthowto would you recommend not installing in a VM but going bare metal for the reasons above?

[@fasthowto]

@@duheaumep It's not that I wouldn't recommend installing it as a VM - it just depends where that hypervisor is running, and what the purpose of that particular HA server is. I, myself, do run an HA server in Virtualbox on Windows. Now, this is NOT my production HA instance. I use it has a test/dev/lab machine where I can test stuff out before making a big mess of my "real" Home Assistant server. This helps keep the WAF high. Now, if you had a dedicated system running Proxmox or VMware or something similar - by all means, run it as a VM. Hope this helps!

[@duheaumep]

@@fasthowto thanks for the advice, I want to create a HA set up, and happy to buy a NUC for the purpose, sounds like I might just go straight to bare metal build :)

[@fasthowto]

@@duheaumep It's certainly the easiest way to get a an HA server that performs well and is easy to manage, but there are a couple advantages to Proxmox or VMware. If you're not in a rush, I'd wait a couple days for my next video to come out before making a decision. :)

[@bix8927]

How do i use zigbee coordinator dongle with HA running on VirtualBox?

[@fasthowto]

By configuring USB passthrough. Thanks for watching!

[@airsoftjisus4730]

Hi!, There is one way to add files to the image? there is some no official/community add ons that i want to include but i cannot see how to add them, please help.

[@fasthowto]

community add-ons are added using HACS.

[@Techtonicuk]

Hi thanks for the video. What will happen if my server loses power and I need to restart VirtualBox, will I lose my previous home assistant configurations?

[@fasthowto]

You shouldn't, but if you just yank power, it may get corrupted. That can happen with any pc, VM or not. That's why I always recommend using a UPS.

[@Techtonicuk]

@@fasthowto thanks.

[@ZemineChen]

Love your channel mate - quick noob question, how do you uninstall everything hahah (decided to get the raspberry pi instead)

[@fasthowto]

Just uninstall the app and then delete the files.

[@tarun-khandelwal]

Hi. So if we install HA this way. And when the laptop (or the Windows machine eg. PC) is turned off (not running) will the devices stay connected and the automatons will work? Or we need to keep the laptop always powered on for HA and smartthings smart devices to work.

[@fasthowto]

Ermm..

[@tarun-khandelwal]

@@fasthowto sry so it that a Yeah 😉😉

[@Selcuk_Kenar]

Hello. After the latest homeassistant update I am getting error in virtualbox. Errors , Slot A ( OK=1 TRY=3 ) Slot B ( OK= TRY=3 ) the system stays here and does not turn on the homeassistant.

[@nc3565]

And the same but on debian wsl?

[@fasthowto]

huh?

[@nc3565]

@@fasthowto hass in container witth wsl2

[@fasthowto]

@@nc3565 I don't do containers.

[@taowang2228]

Why can't I access the gived IP:8123 page?

[@kostergratis]

I had the same issue. After a lot of doubble checking my settings I uninstalled Virtualbox and started over. I updated my windoes drivers and moved the installation folder to the downloads folder instead of a dedicated folder under my C-drive. After that it worked.

[@thething6938]

hi when I put the ip on my browser it showed me this error message "This site can’t provide a secure connection" can somebody help me.

[@fasthowto]

Stop trying to use https unless you've configured it on HA...

[@GreveDK]

Great video, easy to follow And it works 👍 thanks

[@fasthowto]

Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad to hear you were able to get it set up using the video. Thanks for watching!!

[@pcampane99]

Hey Jeff, I redid this and I've gotten much better at things...however, going on vaca this week...I still have to "stop" my my Virtual Box Manager (right click the 3 lines, hover over stop, then click power off) and then simply press "Start" immediately after and everything is fine again. If I don't do this, HA is completely unresponsive. Been like this since day one. I hope you're ok, man...haven't see you active so apologies if I'm bothering you, just wondering if you had a thought on this...there's not much when you search for a solution. Again, hope things are well! Paul

[@fasthowto]

Yep, still here. Just been pretty busy in real life lately, unfortunately. New baby, job is crazy, you know how it is. Working on part 3 of the blue iris video, actually editing now. It's all recorded already. I used to have that issue with mine as well when I was running on an HA blue. My solution was to schedule a restart from within HA as an automation. Give that a shot and let me know if it helps. Hope all is well with you!!

[@pcampane99]

@@fasthowto Hey man, glad you're OK... Congrats on the new baby! Really appreciate the suggestion, I'll give it a try and see if it pulls through tomorrow! Excited for part 3 as well! Thanks again!

[@EE-su7mb]

"Other Linux 64" doesnt work with the latest HassOS 12.1. You need to choose Linux 2.6/3.x/5.x 64bit.

[@fasthowto]

Odd. It works just fine on the 12.1 I just recorded Saturday and will be publishing soon as an update to these older videos. Perhaps you've made some other error?

[@fredasiong]

well explained. Thx

[@fasthowto]

You are most welcome; thanks for watching!

[@deanmiller8861]

Has anyone ran HA on an Intel Alderlake N95 yet? I hear great performance reviews of this platform and the cost is great for the performance.

[@kevinsono]

When you lose internet home assistant stops working for me. I though this was supposed to be based on local network not the cloud

[@fasthowto]

It is local, and does not rely on the cloud. Likely you have something not configured quite right. I hope you are able to figure out what it is, because Home Assistant really is a great system! Thanks for watching!

[@jrotten1982]

elevation is probably for barometric pressure

[@fasthowto]

That would require a pressure sensor... But also, my experience with such devices (high-end consumer ones such as Kestrel) is that they will take the pressure, temperature, and humidity, and tell YOU the elevation. Respectfully, I don't think that is why that field exists. Good guess, though, and thanks for watching!!

[@mr.bianchirider8126]

Nice T shirt.

[@fasthowto]

Thank you!! :) And thank for watching!

[@WoottonRivers]

I've always assumed that the elevation affects the sunset and sunrise times.

[@fasthowto]

Could be? Although I would expect the map would have elevation information on it, so sunrise/sunset should be figured out from the map. My guess was always that it was for people who lived in a city in a high rise? Like, if your apartment was on the 20th floor it would be able to use the elevation to know that when you were at ground level, it would know you still weren't home? But as I said in the video, I really have no idea. Everything has worked fine for me leaving it at 0, but I think I'm actually at like 1200' ASL or something like that. Thanks for watching!

[@ffjj3380]

the downloads are broken

[@fasthowto]

Uhh, no they aren't.

[@clausqp]

out of date and does no longer work...

[@fasthowto]

I'm gonna have to go ahead and say it's operator error. Commenters as recently as 3 days ago had no trouble...

[@clausqp]

@@fasthowto And that might very well be the case. For one I never found out how to get into "expert mode", and this video does not show how to do that, so... (And I do not have the "guided mode" button either!)