Existing Hardware or Dedicated?

[Ozzi]

Firstly, please forgive me if I’ve posted this in the wrong category. It was the one that made the most the sense to me.

I’ve been using Home Assistant for a year now at home and now I want to bring it to my workshop. I already have a dedicated computer running Ubuntu with, Apache2, MariaDB, sFtp, and a local LLM. It also has its own SSL with CertBot.

It’s got plenty of spare resources, with an Intel i7 64gb ram, 4tb SSD, and a RTX2060. I would like to add home assistant to this but the news of support been dropped for core and other methods this leaves me with a conundrum.

It sounds like I know what I’m talking about but I really don’t and need advice. I’ve never used docker and to be honest, as I don’t know much about it that it worries me it will cause problems on a constantly in use, working server.

Is there a solid step by step instruction guide that I could follow to add home assistant to this server? Or shall I abandon this idea and get a small pi4 or similar? (not the favourable option, but I’m willing to concede if necessary)

Peace
Ozzi

[IOT7712]

Just wondering if creating a virtual Raspberry Pi, and then proceed to run a ‘standard’ HomeAssistant environment inside it would be a simple solution?

[Ozzi]

I was trying to think outside the box, that it didn’t occur to me that creating the box would be better haha. (Sorry, bad pun I know).

The best solutions are the simple ones. Doing this would create it’s own IP address that it would solve some other troubles I didn’t think off.

Thank you friend.

Peace
Ozzi

[IOT7712]

Just saw the discussion about Proxmox here since I posted. This may be an easy solution too.

HAOS with local browser or HAOS VM

Hi all, I am going to admit defeat with HA Supervised and of course it’s being phased out so if I explain why I went for Supervised in the first place maybe someone can advise me how to restart. I have a touchscreen on the wall connected to a NUC which runs Debian and with a simple browser I can connect to various things on the local network, solar installation, car charger etc. It is dead easy and very reliable up to now. I understood that with HAOS I could not have a browser so I opted for su…

[tmjpugh]

@IOT7712

Just wondering if creating a virtual Raspberry Pi, and then proceed to run a ‘standard’ HomeAssistant environment inside it would be a simple solution?

You want a VM with HAOS

Direct docker install of HA

Or proxmox install

All are listed as recommended install method in docs

[EBME2]

I run Home Assistant on Unbunto as a virtual machine using KVM as the hypervisor the VM runs HAOS.

Installing KVM on top of your existing Linux machine saves you blowing away your existing OS. It was a little bit fiddly to get working but once done rock solid for a number of years.