Home Assistant Blue Docker

Installation
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I’m running a home-assistant docker container right now and I am happy, but I also bought the blue odriod N2 home assistant computer and I want to move there. I have a few questions about it though:

  1. Is there a place where the image of what is on the blue is published somewhere? I’d like to be able to completely reinstall it if I mess something up.
  2. Can I use docker on the odriod? I like the idea that my servers are cattle and not cats, so I want to be able to copy a few files and then replace as much as I can quickly with docker commands. I also have a few other docker containers that might be better on this than where they are now.
  3. What is hass.io? I am looking at a lot of tutorials that talk about it as a separate install. And there are videos with a supervisor and a way to install packages (like duckdns or file editor). I don’t have those in my docker install.

I’m missing something. Thanks for the help.

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The Blue runs Home Assistant Operating System, which was previously known as hass.io, which is a linux based operating system.

It does include Docker Engine

OS images are available on github:

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Oh, How interesting. Docker container managing docker containers. Thank you. I will read more about that.

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You can run anything you want on this Odroid, at the end of the day it’s just a mini “computer” like a Pi. It just comes with Home Assistant OS preinstalled.
See the different installation methods here

You are currently running Hone Assistant Container.

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OK. So next question. How do I get a terminal on the host OS? I first installed a “Terminal and SSH” add on, which is neat, but it looks like it is a terminal inside a container (docker not found). I haven’t configured the SSH, but I am guessing that will lead to the same place (sshd running inside a separate container).

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From what I can tell, the HAOS install is more of a appliance. You have access to the base OS via two ways:

  1. put a head on the machine, login as “root” (no PW), then type “login”. this dumps you to the “OS”.
  2. install the Term/SSH app" and configure. this will only provide you with access to the HA side. To get to the “OS” you then have to follow the Developers access process. This can be tricky, it took me a bit to get it working. (USB stick was not mounting)

Now, just to be clear, the HAOS does not give you full access like one might think. I’s a locked down version. You do not get a lot of the common unix tools and options available if you did an install on top of an existing OS. This is one of the benefits of the appliance style of install, it does one thing only.

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I have been able to do what I was hoping for by installing the portainer add on in the store. I don’t have everything configured, but this is working pretty well. I hope to keep things like the updates working too.

Thanks everyone for the help.