Hass.OS for NUC

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I am considering buying a NUC so that I can install Hassio and upgrade from my Raspberry Pi.

Reason for this is I want to have about 15 add ons running - including many optional ones such as Phlex, Tautulli and pi-hole, but I feel like the raspberry pi might struggle.

If I buy the NUC, will I be able to install Hass.OS as the operating system? I would prefer to do this rather than install linux and then hass.io on top, because the add-ons system is good enough for me (in terms of additional software) and it’s easier to use since I’m already familiar with hass.io.

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Not yet but it’s coming

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Thank you. Is there an ETA for that, do you know? :slight_smile:

I understnad that FOSS may well not have one; but just wondered if one might have been mentioned (you obviously have access to at least soem information that I have not been able to find!) :slight_smile:

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You can install hassio on top of almost any Linux distro.

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Thanks, but it’s rather not have the extra hassle of another OS to maintain.

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It’s Linux…you don’t have to maintain anything after it has been configured the first time.

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No apt-get update and upgrade? I must admit my knowledge on this is limited.

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On 16.04 and 18.04 you can choose during setup to have it automatically install security updates during setup.

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It’s there if you so desire…but not required. I have production servers that are still running on 14.04 and haven’t been updated in over a year aside from security patches.

This. :smiley:

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Which version of Linux is this?

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Ubuntu 16.04/18.04

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Not really… just heard it on the Discord chat.

I second what others have said about just using a Linux distro. I am using Debian on my NUC. Updating Linux is trivial really especially compared to the flexibility of not locking yourself down to HassOS.

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Thank you both. May give that a go then.

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I made this installation the other night, Im guessing with an existing backup you can load in you would make the switch pretty quickly.

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I went to NUC about a month ago but instead of HASS.OS I decided to go Ubuntu Server with containers for everything I wanted. Learning curve with docker is initially steep once you get going on it, it worth the effort to easily manage various components and have a much more stable system.

This thread helped me

Start small, get a hang of it, come here and ask questions. I promise you its worth the effort.

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if you just do a linux distro install, install docker and then the generic linux hassio install, restore a snapshot you’re done… nothing to learn - it will look and behave just like Hass.io with HassOS or ResinOS. You can then play with installing other containers to do other things… and yes that is a bit of a learning curve for sure but excruciatingly easy after your first one.