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Episode: 4125
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Title: HPR4125: Installing Home Assistant Operating System (HAOS), on a x86-64 machine
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4125/hpr4125.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 19:53:44
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4125 for Friday the 24th of May 2024.
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Today's show is entitled, Installing Home Assistant Operating System HAOS on X8664
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Machine.
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It is part of the series' home automation.
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It is hosted by Ken Fallon, and is about 12 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, Method 1 installing HAOS via Ubuntu booting from a USB flash drive.
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To a generic X8664 PC.
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Hi everybody, my name is Ken Fallon and you're listening to another episode of Hacker Public
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Radio.
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Today is going to be the second in our series about home automation.
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The first being HPR4099 introducing home automation.
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And we were talking about home assistant today.
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We are going to install home assistant for you.
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And we're going to do that live basically.
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Let's see how we're going to do that.
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On the home assistant installation page, there are various different options available
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for you to install home assistant.
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And again, home assistant is your central hub.
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It's the one that's going to do the brains behind all your automations.
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It's going to take in information from sensors and do things with us as you desire.
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So the easiest, by far the easiest way to guess, up and running with a home assistant hub
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is to buy the home assistant green product, which is produced by the project.
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And it's a hardware device and it's pretty much guaranteed to run.
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The next option would be a DIY using a Raspberry Pi, which I intend to do an episode on
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as well.
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And then the next level would be with the home assistant yellow, which again is a compute
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module based on the Raspberry Pi and is produced in conjunction with the home assistant community.
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So we will not be installing it on an old droid device, but we will in fact be installing
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us on X8664 machine using this expert method here.
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And then there's expert methods, which we may or may not get to in the series if you want
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to send a show using that.
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That's absolutely fine.
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We'll probably stick to these methods here to get us up and running initially.
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As I said, I'm no home assistant expert.
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I'm just getting into it and this is me documenting my journey, so to speak.
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So I'm going to be installing it on a HP T610 flexible thin client.
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And the reason I'm doing that is because I have one of them.
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And it is the only available X86 clients that I have right at this moment in time.
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So therefore, that's the one we're going to use.
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It's a bit finicky, I got them during the lockdown when there was a shortage of Raspberry
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Pi 4s and had a few things that I needed to do specifically.
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I need to drive to printers and the printer definition files and all the stuff is only
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available on i386 platform, so therefore that's why I got those.
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They're kind of the same equivalent power as a Raspberry Pi 4, a little bit under.
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But I have been able to upgrade the memory into 16 gigabytes and there's 16 gigabytes
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on board flash as well and there's also space to attach an IDE drive which I haven't
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bothered doing because 16 gigs is more than enough.
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I'll include a link to information about the hardware and just want to reinforce the fact
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that I do not recommend this hardware for you.
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Because when I was doing this, the UEFI boot setup of this computer is out of date with
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the majority of the modern distros, so as a result you need to disable that before anything
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else.
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So when you want to install Home Assistant, you click on the tutorial and you get brought
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to the Home Assistant install page which is the generic-x8664 page and the first thing
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they tell you to do as well is you need to disable UEFI boot because they do not support
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it.
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It becomes an internet appliance and they give you some examples there in the documentation
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about how to do that.
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Then they go on to say how to install Home Assistant OS or HAOS as the abbreviation they
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use on your x86 hardware and they provide two methods.
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So the first method is the one we're going to be covering but I just want to explain
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the other method which is option 2.
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An option 2 is to open up, turn off your target PC where you're going to be installing Home
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Assistant on.
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Take out the hard drive physically, put it into a USB caddy device or something and attach
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it to your laptop or PC and basically flash it as you would an SD card if you were trying
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to burn Raspberry Pi.
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You put in use etcher or something like that or DD even and you simply burn the image
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onto the disk so Home Assistant OS itself doesn't come with any way to install so it doesn't
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have an installer program.
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So what it suggests is doing it that way and then when you have it burned the image you
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take on mounted of course from your current system, take out the disk, reinstall it again
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and turn it back on and then it will boot into the appliance and you will get a web page.
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And we're only going to take you as far as getting the web page today and then we will
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go on to the next episode so sit in your expectations right there.
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So the first thing that I'll do is I'll read the instructions which is always good.
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So method one you have a target computer so you install the USB flash drive.
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So what I want you to do here is they are asking you to install via a live Linux distro
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and the one they select is Ubuntu.
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So you download an image for Ubuntu live, you burn it, use an etcher, bletcher or DD
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or something or Fedora media writer whatever works for you onto a USB stick.
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I've got a 64 gig one here and then you turn off your target computer once you finish
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burning it.
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Same way you will do an SD card for a Raspberry Pi again and then you will turn off your
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target computer booties of the USB stick.
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Once it's booted off the USB stick you then go to the web page to download the image.
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So you're running inside the live environment, be that Ubuntu, be that Fedora, be a Debian,
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Debian is the one that I actually used because for some reason Wayland I think didn't run
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and the only thing I could get working was a Debian machine.
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So strange the word maybe, Debian it was for the win and I clicked on the link to download
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the image so inside your live environment you go to the Home Assistant page again, you
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go to installation generic x86-64 and then step 5 of method 1 has download the image which
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is github.com Home Assistant operating system releases download 12.2 HOS on score generic
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dash x86-64-12-2.img.xz Now by the time you're listening to this that may have moved
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on so you pick the latest image and once it's downloaded under Ubuntu at the bottom left
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you can go disks and then there's a section 3 dots where you can restore disk image so you
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would highlight the disk that you want to install it on so you know your main slash dev slash
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whatever and then you would select the image that you want and then you start restoring and it
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will confirm that it's restored and then you would reboot the image and that is pretty much
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that how I did it on the Ubuntu or on the Debian image myself was I installed the USB stick
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turned on the computer booted to a live environment and then I actually opened up a terminal
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and I installed open SSH dash server started the server found my IP address and secured
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shell from my own PC into that server because keyboard and my PC here is a lot better than that one
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then I installed wget and then I used wget to pull down the image and once I had the image
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installed I used LSBLK to tell me what the file systems were and in my case I ignored the ones
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that had loop zero because that's where the file system is mounted and I also ignored a slash
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live slash mount anything with live in it which happened to be SDB and that left only SDA1 which
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was 16 gig which matched what was in the BIOS and then I just used the DD device where I used the
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IF which is the infile pointing to the h a o s generic image dot x z space o f equals 4 slash dev
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4 slash s da and that took a while to do and it rolled 319 megabytes of data and when I was done
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I rebooted the system and by the big I was able to connect to that IP address on port 8123
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and that is it that is how you install home assistant as a device on an x86 computer
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tune in tomorrow for another exciting episode of hacker public radio
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