Home Assistant in Mac M1

I don’t recall doing anything other then instal the integration and add a domain for the entities to be relayed into Apple home.

The auto reboot is currently not going to be a resolution as UTM doesn’t auto mount your usb stick. I am also keeping an eye out for when that is possible.

Every few days my system becomes unhealthy preventing me from updating any add ons or OS upgrades. When I reboot the VM in UTM, it becomes healthy again. Anyone have an idea why this is happening?

I’m late to this discussion but want to share my experiences with Home Assistant Supervised on MacOS with Lima VMs. This approach is very lightweight, especially compared to approaches with UTM, Parallels and VirtualBox.

In case someone is interested, I wrote down the needed steps in this Git repo.

I used it to test the restore of my main HAOS instance which runs on a Pi4.

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I get this exact same thing. Intel to m1 exact story. Whenever I try and start reload or use zwave in any for All goes splat. Have restart from scratch. Otherwise super happy with how it run.

I tried 3 VMs on my Mac Mini M2 without success. Buying an old NUC for $35-45 and running HAOS was a whole lot easier.

has anyone found a way to prevent UTM to keep disconnecting the USB BT dongle?

I’ve been running HA in parallels for over a year now and it’s been fine. Ditched the UTM setup .

I’ve just moved to VMWare Fusion since it is free for personal use. Parallels has become too expensive.

I had to rebuild my main HA instance since VF seems to only support efi boot on Apple silicon, and for some reason it was built with legacy boot. Fairly easy, same instructions as before and then restore from ha backup.

How did you install it in Parallels? Was not successful :frowning:

Have a look at my post from 3 years ago - Home Assistant in Mac M1 - #17 by RogTP

Thank you for your super fast reply!

Hoped for a guide with less steps but i guess it will work. :slight_smile:
Can i do all the updates from the webui within HomeAssistant with this installation?

Sorry, you are wanting to install HA on Debian inside a Parallels VM, through the HA web ui?

I think you need to explain what you are trying to do.

Sry for my bad explanation. In the meanwhile i understood it is “just” the supervised version.

Currently i have a VM running on my Synology Nas with HomeAssistant OS.

That is what i would prefer. I was wondering, why there is not Parallels compatible version while there is one for UTM.

Best regards,

Stefan

You can install the same on UTM as you can on parallels. There is nothing just about supervised, it gives you great flexibility without being hampered by HAOS. But I imagine you can install HAOS on there if you prefer, but you’d have to find some separate instructions for that.

My Parallels 18 version did not work, but the new Parallels 20 seems to run perfectly.

Thanks for your help,

Stefan

And I moved from having it on my M1 Mac to Home Assistant Green quite some time ago. Although it was rock solid on my Mac, any reboot made stuff dodgy with my zigbee and z-wave modules. My original intent was to keep the UTM solution and just use Home Assistant Green as a “remote home assistant,” but the green ended up working well enough that I moved everything over. It takes a lot longer to boot…but otherwise seems to work great.

were you able to install hassos on parallels 20? I can’t make it boot

I converted the image using the prl-command as shown in this thread.

Booting was possible as long as the bluetooth of the mac mini was not forwarded to the vm, otherwise it did not fully boot.

Whats your error message?

oh never mind i was not using the aarch64 image. It’s good now with parallels 19 and 20. I prefer parallels to UTM since you can assign the usbs and the autoboot at macos boot.