Friend of mine just bought one and we are wondering what is the best method of installing HA supervised on it. It currently comes with Windows 11 installed i believe. Thanks in advance
There is no “best way”, but one of the worst ways would be to put it on Windows. Windows does forced OS updates and HA doesn’t always properly start afterwards.
A better way would be to install HAOS as the base operating system, but you won’t be able to use it for anything other than HA and addons.
A betterer way would be to install Proxmox as the base operating system and install HAOS in a virtual machine using a Proxmox Helper Script. Then you can create other virtual machines in the future for other uses if you want.
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Put home assistant OS on it it wont let you down
Blackbird…I am researching the exact same thing. You would need to do it on a virtual box/machine. I tried it yesterday and almost finished it but ran into some problems. here is the link I was using as my guide…Step-by-Step Guide: How to Install Home Assistant Supervised on Windows – SMLP:.
This is an old guide but got me thru most but some pre-requisites were not installed, so got errrors when installing the supervised os. Also the version in this guide is 1.4.1 and should be 1.6.0.The errors were:
dpkg: error processing package homeassistant-supervised (–install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of homeassistant-supervised:
homeassistant-supervised depends on bluez; however: Package bluez is not installed.
homeassistant-supervised depends on cifs-utils; however:
Package cifs-utils is not installed.
homeassistant-supervised depends on nfs-common; however:
Package nfs-common is not installed.
After more research, I found this site: Home Assistant Supervised – OMG The Cloud! … this explained how to Install Prerequsites…I am only following from this point on. I hope you understand what I am saying.
Thanks guys
As @michaelblight mentioned in his message above, don’t install it on Windows! He also mentioned using Proxmox. I did that on my Beelink hardware, same as your friend. Best move I ever made. There are install scripts on the net that make installation a breeze.
Have a look at https://smarthomescene.com/guides/how-to-install-home-assistant-on-proxmox-the-easy-way/ and https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts?id=Node-Red
Need is the wrong word here. If keeping Windows as the base OS is a requirement then using VirtualBox is one of several options. The OP said Best way so simply wiping Windows and installing Debian 12 would likely be the best way.
That said, I agree with others - Evaluate if you really need supervised. If “just because I want flexibility” is your only argument, just install HAOS. You won’t regret it.
I started with supervised on Debian and migrated to HAOS and have had no regrets or felt “limited” by HAOS.
IMHO install proxmox with HAOS in a VM.
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Worth bearing in mind that if you want a supervised install, debian 12 is the only path