Home Assitant Installation Dell Wyse 3040

Installation
#1

Hey,
i am trying to intstall Home Assitant on a Dell wyse 3040.
These are the steps that i haven done, but them installtion always stops at the end and says “Waiting for the Home Assistnat CLI to be ready…”

This is what i haven done:
On my Windows Laptop:

  1. Flashed a 8gb usb drive with Ubuntu 22.10

On the Dell Wyse 3040:
2. Booted from the usb drive and chosse the option “try ubuntu”
3. Download BalenaEtcher
4. Flashed to the internal drive the folowning link:https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/download/9.4/haos_generic-x86-64-9.4.img.xz
5. Stoped Ubuntu and put the usb drive out
6. Started the dell and the message “Waiting for the Home Assitant CLi to be ready” displays.
I am thankful for any tipps!

#2

Do you have it plugged in to an ethernet cable?

How long have you waited?

#3

Yes a Ethernet cable is connected, i have waited over 15 minutes

#4

Perhaps here? Wyse Thin Client Home Assistant OS installation instructions

#6

Dunno. Put the message into google and see what comes up.

Did the thread I pointed to help?

#7

The main problem was that the flash in ubuntu was not completly done.

#8

How does HA run on this? Is 8GB of storage enough? Please share your experience! I’m intersted

#9

Hey, sorry fot the late anwser.
For me the 8Gb are at the moment enough space.
I have installed HACS, made a custom dashboard and made some own automations and I am only ussing 60% percent of the storage.
Storge is for me no problem, but the installtion on the dell wyse 3040 was a huge pain.

#10

I am considering getting one of these Wyse 3040 boxes. Isn’t it possible to boot HA from a flash drive or a usb drive from one of these? Thinking ahead of the Wyse storage limit.

#11

I tried booting HAOS direclty from an USB drive several times. But it was not working.

#12

I’ve just went through the process and installed Debian with HA (and a few others) in Docker container. It turned out to take quite a lot of space and I was left with not much free space. So I’ve removed the swap partition and now it has ~2GB free space. This is just enough to be able to upgrade HA as the image is taking well over 1GB. Overall the installation with Debian is super smooth and boots up nicely without any tinkering.
Then I’ve tried to get something smaller and I’ve installed Alpine Linux. With automated install it creates a 2GB swap partition. To get rid of it is a bit of manual disk partitioning as there is no wizard type of process in the install scripts. I’ve reduced the size of swap partition and now I have 6.2 GB root partition with ~3GB free space. So 1GB more than the Debian install.

Both work all ok now, they use up to 1GB memory (HA ~300MB only). I’ll probably put the alpine version to production location (secondary one, need just a few devices, remote access etc)

BTW, this terminal is great, 10x10x3cm and takes only 3W on average and 4W under load