Personally - especially when someone’s new to HA… I’m a fan of HAOS, treat it like an appliance, If you run into a situation where you need to run other stuff on the PC you can always run a virtualized HAOS (Inside one of those solutions you mentioned above). It’s the simplest way to start and if you need more capability later just back up your installation and restore it to wherever you move HA into later.
+1 for Proxmox but the RAM is low for that. (I have upgraded a T630 to 16Gb RAM)
@Effers: if you take your time now to reflect, you might save yourself some time/re- installs/…
Proxmox is virtualization software on which you can install multiple systems.
Pi-Hole or AdGuard are used quite often; I run 10 different systems as containers, one of them is a second test HA setup.
Proxmox also gives you an easy option to create backups and snapshots of your systems.
Virtualization gives you a lot of possibilities and you use the full potential of your hardware.
With HA-OS you have similar ways to install add-ons (which also are containers) but in that case your HA is the foundation.
I also upgraded my t630 to 16gb ram. I run a backup test instance for HA although mostly it is switched off as Its not needed. Mine has 3 old sata 1tb ssd disk running on it via USB for openmediavault. It also runs motioneye with 8 cameras, 2 of which do motion detection. The processor is running about 75%.
If it will be exclusive for HA, I wouldn’t bother with proxmox (as it is a virtualization platform allowing you to run multiple machines).
I would go for :
How did you guys get to install on HP T630 thinclient. I can install nothing on it because I cannot disable secure boot in BIOS. It always resets to activated after saving and leaving the BIOS. So booting from USB is not possible.
I also tried giving a BIOS password as some people advised for disabling secure boot. BIOS always says “loading standard settings” during boot. But password is remembered, also BIOS is in German which I don’t think is standard.
Using the process, everything went great… up to step 8 (loaded the HA image, no errors). When going into bios I made sure the hard drive was first on the boot order. After rebooting I get a GNU GRUB black screen popup with grub> line.
I double checked the boot order and it looks fine. I am at a loss right now, thoughts???
I’m a little confused at the UEFI drive entries. The first in the list says ‘ubuntu’. It may be worth a quick recap, just for (my) clarity:-
Did you decide to go the HAOS (generic x86) route? This would mean the whole drive/device is dedicated to HA.
If so, did you remove the drive and use something like Etcher to burn the image you downloaded onto the drive?
If not, which route did you go?
I did decide to go the HAOS, dedicating the device to HA.
Using the link above (Generic x86-64 - Home Assistant) and method 2, Create a “live operating system” on a USB device running e.g. Ubuntu, I booted Ubuntu via usb drive. From there I ran Balena-Etcher to flash the onboard drive.
Slightly different than me, then. I took the drive out of my Wyse thin client and plugged it into my PC via a SATA to USB adapter to burn the image directly onto the hdd. (that’s not entirely correct - I replaced the onboard 32GB ssd with a larger one). Having said that, the process should be much the same.
Have you tried choosing the “Legacy” option from the bottom menu? I’ve read other threads that suggest this might help. Don’t know personally, but it’s worth a try,?
Not a problem from my end. Glad you got it sorted. Sometimes it’s enough to talk things through with someone which shows us where we’ve gone wrong. Done it loads of times myself
Hi, hope I’m not too late to the party (it might at least help somebody else) but I had a similar issue with T630. There was some sort of lock in the BIOS (which was also in German) and the HA would not boot properly (however I was able to boot Ubuntu). In my case the solution was to re-flash the BIOS with the latest version from the HP website. There are instruction on how to do it, but as far as I remember I copied the file on a USB stick put it into the client and chose to re-flash the BIOS from a BIOS menu. Just be patient, it took somewhere around 10+ minutes if I remember correctly. I thought I bricked the damn thing, but then suddenly it restarted and started the boot sequence. But since then (it’s been like 2 years already) I never has a single problem with the client. It’s quiet and runs flawlessly. The operating temperatures fall within a ballpark of 35-45 degrees.
