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.