Home Assistant Installation Dell Wyse 3040

Installation
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Odd. What is the output of

ls -l /dev/block
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1000013585
10000135851920×2560 550 KB

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I think you should be looking at /dev/sda, not /dev/mmcblk0

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I’m sorry but sda is the USB drive running the live Ubuntu
It’s not related to the wyse

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Yeah sorry, so it is.

Looks like you bought an odd one.

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Hi, thanks very much for this, I had given up trying to install HA on the 3040, was thinking there was an issue with its memory as it was grinding to a halt every time I tried to download the image from HA. I realised it was like some memory resource issue so when I found your right up I gave it a shot and it worked.
The only step I did different was just added the HA image to the second usb and did the restore to the Dell from that, seems to have worked ok although not configured any integrations etc yet but looks good. Thanks again

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Just installed the latest Home Assistant on Dell Wyse 3040 and wanted to share the method I used. Hopefully, it will be helpful.

  1. Prepare a live USB flash drive with any Linux distribution (I used Linux Mint).
  2. Format the second flash drive in ExFAT format (to support larger files) and unpack the Home Assistant x86-64 image (*.img file) onto it (not the *.img.xz file!).
  3. Insert both prepared flash drives and boot from the live USB Linux (press F12 during boot and select the flash drive with Linux).
  4. Write the Home Assistant image using the dd utility (verify the drive names in Disk Management utility or with the lsblk command):
dd if=homeassistant.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 status=progress

The status=progress option will show you the progress of writing the image. Once finished, power off the machine, remove all flash drives, and start it up. Home Assistant should launch successfully after that.

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Hello, was it a 8gig/2gig Wyse3040, or 16g/8Gi one?
how is the performances?

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Just an FYI, I have used a Dell Wyse 5010 with HAOS and it works like a charm. Upgraded RAM to max 4GB (GSkill RipJaws), got a SATA extension cable and put in a 250GB PNY SSD. You can pick these up on eBay for $10-$30 USD.

The ONLY real quirk I’ve come across is you can’t use Music Assistant passed v2.3.6 as the processor can’t handle the transcoding requirements of Music Assistant later releases. Other than that, the Wyse 5010 has been a solid device.

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Thanks for those info,

  • did you follow the same procedure than RAGNACAT (above)?
  • your sata hdd is always plugged to the Wyse?
  • do you know theconsumtion of this Wyse(the power) is it a USB-c cord to power it on?
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  1. No. I flashed the SSD using BalenaEtcher on a Windows PC. Then, plugged it in directly to the MOBO using the SATA extension. The SSD is a 2.5” drive
  2. Yes.
  3. 8 watts. It uses a barrel plug power adapter.
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At about the same price point ($87 add $10 for 3yr warrantee) I have bought refurbished PCs. I run Ubuntu and put HAOS in a Virtual Box. It gives more bang for the buck, though they typically require 22W. I am running parallel to the VB an MQTT broker and an irrigation front end and occasional use linux function (like dd that takes a day or so to back up a TB drive.)

At $50, I must say I’m tempted. :wink:

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My setup:

On Windows:
Set up Belena Enche h__ttps://etcher.balena.io/

Flash card 1:
Burn the Linux Mint 21 ver. on the Flash card №1.
Linux Mint 21: h__ttps://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=299
(Linux Mint 21 launches faster than Ubuntu)

Flash card 2:
On the second flash card save the Belena Enche 1.3.1 for Linux: h__ttps://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v1.13.1 >> balena-etcher_1.13.1_amd64.deb

Create a text document and save the link on the last Home Assistant OS.
I take the link from the h__ttps://www.home-assistant.io/installation/generic-x86-64/:

https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/download/16.3/haos_generic-x86-64-16.3.img.xz

The last build you can find in the GIt hub on the Home Assistant OS repo in the releases page: h__ttps://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/

On the wise 3040:

  1. Launch from Linux Mint.
  2. In the “Disk” utilities, format the “SD card” (7.4± gigabytes), it is internal memory of the Wise 3040.
  3. Install the Belena 1.3.1 from the Flash drive 2.
  4. Launch Belena (it will be the last in the software list)
    Flash from URL (link will take from your text document)
    Select target “SD card”
    Flash.

Then, when it finishes, remove the flashcards from the box and relaunch it.

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