Acer EasyStore H340

Hardware
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Hi there,

I am new to Home Assistant and want to to set up a test system. I have the above mentioned server gathering dust and was wondering if it would be possible to install Home Assistant on it. The specs:

Intel Atom 230
2 GB DDR2
Added a VGA Port

Thanks for your help!

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Depends on the operating system it runs. If that’s Windows then, technically, yes, but it’s not recommended (for a range of reasons).

Thankfully you can install Linux, so you could do an alternative Hass.io install or a manual venv install on it.

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Hi, thanks. I have no experience whatsoever with Linux. But I will give it a try, what could possibly go wrong? :slight_smile:

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A quick Google search for acer easystore h340 linux install will get you a range of guides. Find something fairly recent for Ubuntu or Debian, that makes sense when you read it, and you should be good.

This one is about an older version of Ubuntu, but it should work. This one is older, but is more readable.

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I was just looking here, looks like they even have a driver for the led’s here, but I’m not sure since I just skimmed over the thread.

Will take a look at the options, thanks.

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Hi again,

I spend the last two days trying to follow the above mentioned instructions to no abail. In the end attached a hd to my laptop and installed ubuntu server, then HA and its dependencies. It worked, I managed to acces the front end from my smartphone.

Then I tried to do the following step from here:

" This is going to be an issue as the next step in the process is to remove the drive from the external hard drive enclosure and then insert into a bootable position back in the Nas server. The Nas server will almost definitely have a different network card and therefore will never show up on the network.

So we need to remove the link to this NIC
The file is located at
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

So use gedit
Sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
Am no linux guru yet but am pretty sure this is how its done

And remove the following info. Remove all of this. Its all one line but will look like its spread over three or four lines.
SUBSYSTEM==”net”, ACTION==”add”, DRIVERS==”?”, ATTR{address}==”00:00:00:00:00:00″, ATTR{type}==”1″, KERNEL==”eth”, NAME=”eth0″ "

I got a message that the file doesn’t exist, but attached the drive to the H340 anyway… needless to say it didn’t work. I can’t get the server connected to the network…

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Carlos

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Hi, well got Ubuntu Server running but can’t install HA. Tried this instructions but got a :

bash: line 1: 404:: command not found

when trying to execute:

curl -sL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/hassio-build/master/install/hassio_install" | bash -s

Very strange because it worked before in my laptop, but the network was not recognized by the H340, so reinstalled direct in server and everything went well until the HA install.

I know that this is not a Linux forum, but maybe someone can help?

Thanks.

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Probably there are some other packages you need to install to get Hass.io up and running. Try this (from here before running that curl command:

sudo -i
add-apt-repository universe
apt-get update
apt-get install -y apparmor-utils apt-transport-https avahi-daemon ca-certificates curl dbus jq network-manager socat software-properties-common
curl -sSL https://get.docker.com | sh
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Managed to install Debian 9 and then used this instructions to install HA!

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Just want to say that I ended up installing Lubuntu and then followed the generic Linux installation, HA is working fine now!