Homeassistant core on Android (Guide Dec'22)

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Hi,
many thanks for your answer.
when I run hass I get

~ $ hass
No command hass found, did you mean:
Command has in package has
Command pass in package pass
~ $

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You must first activate the virtual environment

~ $ source ~/hass/bin/activate
(hass) ~ $ hass
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Hi
That was the piece that was missing. Now HA is starting. Many thanks for your help

Best regards

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Hello, thank you very much for that great tutorial. The setup went just fine, but when I start Homeassistant in the virtual environment I get the following error code:

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/stat/'

And the initial setup of hass halts.

Does anyone have an idea how to solve this?

Best regards

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Hi Ramblingman

I want to thank you very much for your tutorial and for sharing it. Best regards

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This error occurs due to access restrictions in new (10+) versions of android.
Here is an instruction on how to get around a similar error for /proc/net/psched. In the same way (by calling the command through adb shell), you can bypass the error with /proc/stat.

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I notice that HA installed in this way don’t has the addon store under settings. How can I have this store in this installation? best regards

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Addons are available on HA OS or Supervised. Neither can be directly installed on Android. Theoretically, having a flashed android kernel, you can install a virtual machine on which you can install HA OS.
But if you need advanced features, then it is better to run the server on a PC virtual machine or Raspberry Pie.

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I need only to install an Editor, to edit configuration files. Do you know how can install an editor or how can I edit configuration.yaml? best regards

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I don’t know of a way to enable the editor inside HA.
There are several other ways to access the configuration file.

  1. Run the nano ~/. homeassistant/configuration.yaml command in the termux. Then a simple text editor will open on the command line.
  2. Get access from a computer to a smartphone via ssh. Then you can download the file to your computer via sftp (for example, FileZilla), edit it and upload it back to your smartphone.
  3. Install code-server on your termux and edit the file through the page in the browser.

I use these three methods, depending on how big changes I need.

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Hi Franken_Stein
Many thanks for your help. Best regards

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Hey, tried this a few times, tried others, tried chroot into ubuntu and installing from there and I always get stuck while installing orjson it is just stuck.
Can you help me please? btw I really appreciate this detailed guide.

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Try to just wait. The first installation may take a couple of hours.

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Idk if it was just because i was installing it that many times but sometimes it gave me an error after a while.

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got it working, but I have another question, where can i find the configuration.yaml in this type od installation?
Thanks.

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Hello everyone I have toshiba at10-a with android 4.2.1 version. Can I install home asistant core ?

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I described the path to the configuration file and how to edit it in this comment:

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I’m afraid that this requires Android 7.
You can try installing LineageOS instead of a regular android. (if you install a newer version of android, I do not recommend setting the version higher than 9. Starting with Android 10, Google has tightened security and limited access to the /proc folder. Because of this, the server and some ignores may not work correctly)
Or install a virtual machine with Linux and install a server on it. (But running on a virtual machine will be much slower. I had a difference in server startup speed of 10 minutes instead of 10 seconds)

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Hi, me too have the same problem, do you find a solution?
Thanks in advance

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Hi, Right now I`m trying to install haas on my phone, but facing with exect problem. How did you fixed that?