Home Assistant on Intel NUC

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Hi,
I am also into docker and have a NUC with a generic Hass OS installation
(https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-installer)

Smooth and easy,

But I do not find information showing how to manually add an hassio addon and have it integrated into the GUI. Take for example the ssh addon. Is this possible or do we have to install addons only via the GUI ?

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That goes completely against the general consensus of the the forums and docs.

from the docs page above:

ā€œItā€™s recommended when installing Python packages that you use a virtual environment. This will make sure that your Python installation and Home Assistant installation wonā€™t impact one another.ā€

And if what you say is true then what would be the point of recommending installing in a venv over just installing on the base OS?

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I guess if you use venv you can install multiple versions in parallel. Install new version in new venv and when it is stable, switch over.

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Argue this point all you want but iā€™m pretty sure youā€™re wrong.

hopefully new people who come to this thread and read it wonā€™t install HA your way.

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I hope that many people recognize it is much easier and more stable to install the simple python version without any virtual machine. keep it simple, stupid!
(but if someone wants to be sure and uses venv: thats fine, pretty the same)

Martin, Software Engineer, Germany

BTW: dependencies are documented here: https://www.home-assistant.io/faq/dependencies/
and here: https://home-assistant-china.github.io/developers/component_deps_and_reqs/

This is the installation procedure: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/installation/python/

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And now I am going back to an i3 NUC with Ubuntu with dockersā€¦ my QNAP just hasnā€™t the grunt requiredā€¦

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Iā€™m not sure but I think at least an i3/i5 should be minimum requirements or an arm device with dedicated storage to protect against write failures. I caught a lot of crap for my post on using a NUC on reddit. I got the vibe that spending any more money than $100 on a setup is overkill and stupid as HA requires ā€œno resourcesā€ and slow start up times of minutes was desirable. I was actually downvoted a tonā€¦

Iā€™ve created a guide that covers installing Home Assistant on Ubuntu Server LTS as well as backing up to an external drive (to help prevent drive failures) using automated backups. I think this is the way to go instead of using venv and follows the generic linux host guide with some tweaks. This helped me get a lot more performance out of the NUC by distributing my writes and taking advantage of the NVMe storage. This works great with Home Assistant (hassio). Let me know what you think.

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