as my VM is under processor ARM64 and not X86_64 , I thought to download the file “os-agent_1.4.1_linux_arm64.tar.gz” and not “os-agent_1.3.0_linux_x86_64.deb”. and replace in the command the xxx.deb with the xxx.tar.gz downloaded. And so I tried this command “dpkg -i os-agent_1.4.1_linux_arm64.tar.gz”
Anyway I will follow your advice and try to run “Home Assistant OS” on my machine
Try this image (generic-aarch64). It should work for your device although I can not guarantee on this because I have no experience with Home Assistant OS on ARM64/AArch64.
Maybe some other folks want to jump in here to confirm?
Since I had RPI imager installed I could easily printkey it and I figured I could rule them ALL Debian versions by RaspPI out that I had tried and failed to install to get a proper supervised version install after having tried them all but was getting errors (os-agent and such) that I could not resolve with latest upgrade at the time.
Since then I have got a whole house generator which I want to monitor from HA. That is why I asked if you know how to disable onboard wifi from within Debian. I have this external USB antenna
and was going to use nmtui so that I could have ethernet connections to 192.168.2.x for HA based and also connect to 192.168.0.90 for wifi to monitor the generator.
I don’t want to disable wifi within HA as I still want to connect using USB antenna. Do you know Debian well enough to disable the wifi chip from in it. Does not seem to be a cmdline.txt file in boot folder to add dtoverlay=disable-wifi
When I first went into it did not show any WIFI connections just my ethernet connection to my home network 192.168.2.x. So, I added my connection to 192.168.0.90 and saved it. When I went to activate it, it only now showed my home WIFI SSID (which I did not add) but not the generator WIFI connection. I see it when I want to edit connections but not when I want to activate it. I am hoping it I can disable the wifi on the PI in Debian so that things might clear up.
Raspberry pi os (or Raspbian) is not Debian 11 (the only supported os for a supervised install). If that’s the OS you installed then you are running a derivative of Debian, not Debian. Which means you aren’t actually following this guide. Instead you are running an unsupported install and (unsurprisingly) running into issues.
Additionally if you are using a raspberry pi then you’re in the wrong place. As the instructions state there is a separate guide for raspberry pi.
The other guide starts by telling you exactly which image to install. And you’ll notice it never once shows the rpi imager because none of the images in that tool will work here.