Home Assistant on Rock pi 4

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Dear Community,

Any feedback or experience to share regarding using Rock Pi 4 for HA? Do you have any tutorials or materials to share?

Many thanks.

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Any feedback please?

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I expect to buy Rock Pi for my HA installation, and I would confirm that HA can be installed on Rock pi without any issues.

Many thanks for your feedback.

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As Home Assistant allows various installation methods:

Iā€™m certain than more than one should work. The OS type is probably out of scope as by the looks no image for the rock pi 4 is available at the moment. :man_shrugging:

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@orange-assistant Many thanks for your feedback.

I am aware that is possible by using Home Assistant container installation, but do you have any experience with Rock pi for HA? can work for long time without issue?

I am using now Rpi and I am planning to move to Rock pi as came with eMMC storage et M.2 extension on board.

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Depending on your Linux skills, this page from DigiKey regarding the RockPi systems may be helpful.

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Thanks a lot for sharing, I have already started the installation of linux on Rock pi and then I will install HA.

I will share my experience later.

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Have you got it up and running?

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I ported Home Assistant OS to the Rock Pi 4: GitHub - citruz/haos-rockpi: Home Assistant OS for Rock Pi 4B+
Itā€™s tested on the 4B+, should work with 4B and maybe 4SE.
Just install like you would the normal HAOS by flashing to an SD card. Happy to hear your feedback.
I can also add support for more Rock Pi boards if someone is willing to debug things.

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I tried to install ā€šyourā€˜ ported Home assistant version on an OKdo rock 4c+. It didnā€˜t start the installation for some reason. I would be very greatful if you could adapt the OS so that it is working with the rock c+.

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Did you have any output on serial or HDMI?

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Did you get it to work on your c+? I recently picked one up aswell.

@citruz I havenā€™t tried installing it yet, has any modifications been made since?

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No, nothing has been changed in the meantime.
If you can provide debug logs, I am happy to assist with making it work.

I am a bit confused though. Is OKdo Rock the same as Radxaā€™s RockPi? It looks like that since they are linking to the Radxa site for downloading an OS image :thinking:

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@citruz Went through the install, added a few stuff and it seems to work as intended so far! Will let you know if any hickups occur, thanks for your contribution! :100:

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Awesome! I will add a list of supported devices to the GitHub repo. Looks like it is compatible with more rk3399 boards than I thought.

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Hello,

I donā€™t know if this can help, I was using a rockpi to do it :

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Hi! I tried for some time and decided to send it back and got a RaspPi 4B. Since I had HA running on a RaspPi 3B I was able to transfer all data via backup to the RaspPi 4. That suited me bestā€¦.

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Super. Thanks for the image file.

I am a bit new in this sphere and was trying to install with an installation guide to a ā€œnormalā€ Raspberry Pi, it didnt work. I am curious to why it did not work and what you had to do, in laymans terms, to get a working installation image?

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Hey, Im trying to edit the config.txt file for an add-on.
I canā€™t seem to find it on SD card after flashing the image.
Any idea how I can do this?

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Not sure if I follow. Did you try to flash the image to a Raspberry Pi or did you follow instructions which are meant for a Raspberry Pi but flash to a Rock Pi?
I assume the latter. Which steps did you do exactly? What does not work?