Adding wifi to Home Assistant Green

Hardware
1

Hi folks,

Terribly sorry if this is miscategorized. I’m currently using Home Assistant Green, connected via ethernet from my router to HA directly.

I’d like to move home assistant to a more centralized spot in the home, and don’t want to run an ethernet cable all the way across the house. I purchased a Panda Wireless Tri-Band (Model PAU0F) wireless dongle with the intention of adding wifi to home assistant, but it isn’t being recognized when I add it to the port.

I beg the gods of HA to take mercy on my request for assistance as I don’t have a computer science/networking background and have little experience reading logs.

Thanks so much for taking a read.

2

Not all WiFi dongles are created equal. If you have a supported one, it should work out-of-the-box.

3

Is there an official page showing which are supported that you know of? I looked before purchasing and saw that it should work, but it wasn’t an official source.

4

For anyone reviewing this thread, I finally got it worked out.

Turns out, home assistant was registering it all this time! I didn’t have to fiddle around with the terminal or add any drivers. I went to Settings → System → Network → WLU1U3, which is under Configure Network Interfaces. I just hadn’t seen WLU option before. Once there, configure for your wifi network and you’re all set.