Introducing Home Assistant Green: Your entry to Home Assistant

Added context…I am trying to get around 5 cameras to run on HA as well. Will the Green have enough power for that?

Probably not, especially if you’re trying to perform any sort of ‘recognition’ type of image processing on the video feed from those cameras. I really don’t think you’ll see much performance different between your existing RPI 4 and a HA Green.

Have you considered running HAOS on a more powerful Intel NUC style small form factor computer? With the correct CPU and memory, you should be able to handle video processing much better than what a RPi or HA Green can handle.

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I gave this a try for awhile and it was just ok.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07J2TFW5T/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Was running HA and homebridge in separate VMs and just didn’t love the experience. Of particular concern would be getting the PC and VMs up and running again if they were to go down for any reason and I was away. Just need to run HA now so it might be a better experience. I also occasionally had issues passing my skyconnect to the VM.

While I like the idea of being able to do other things with the machine as well, I’m sort of leaning toward wanting a machine strictly to run HAOS. But maybe I will fire this back up and see how it goes.

Do you think this one is ok or do you have a specific one you like (preferably around $100)?

I prefer to just let HAOS run natively on the computer. There are so many add-ons available that it is pretty easy to run additional things on the same computer. I run Grafana, InfluxDB, Node-RED, ESPHome, etc… as HAOS add-ons on my HA Yellow. I do not use the HA Yellow to try and process video data, though…

It is definitely much, much simpler to just run HAOS on a computer versus running it in a virtual machine (as it sounds like you’ve already found out! :wink: )

I would say, go ahead and try it on whatever SFF PC you’d like and see how it goes. I do not have any recommendations for specific hardware.

installing HAOS directly on the computer is an option I hadn’t really considered. This might be a great solution. Thanks for the help.

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My HP is not x86 :cry:

Which HP?

What is it then?

This one:

https://a.co/d/6IduX3e

This is not my strong suit but I believe it said it is x64.

In any case, I was following the steps to install haos on x86. Changed the boot options per instructions. Got the Ubuntu image written to a usb drive. Plugged the usb drive into the HP and booted up, making sure it chose the usb to boot from. Took a while trying and then booted into gnu grub.

Either I’m doing something wrong or it’s not going to work on my system

I think technically it is x86_64 which is synonymous with amd64.

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Did you choose to start ubuntu at the grub prompt (highlight the entry you want and press

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Sure looks like an Intel based CPU, which is the definition of x86/x64 based processors. Does the BIOS support UEFI on that EliteDesk 800 G2? If not, that will be a problem.

If you cannot get the USB Ubuntu method to work…

Just remove the SSD from the PC, attach it to a USB to SSD cable or external USB enclosure, and then use Balena Etcher (or similar) to install the HAOS x86 image to that drive. Afterwards, simply install it back into the SFF PC and boot it up.

yes, you guys are right, it definitely is.

I’m learning about the grub options now :slight_smile:

What does the grub screen say?

gnu grub version 2.06
minimal bash-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file completions.

I did ls and got the possible drives. I’m somewhat sure my USB is ls (hd1,2) only because it is the only showing FAT format. Don’t know where to go from there.

Were there no options to boot?

No, that’s all I had. I’m currently rewriting the iso image to my USB stick using a different method. Most likely trying something different just to try something different. Tomorrow I can try a different USB stick.

EDIT: success! Failed using Rufus, worked immediately using balena etcher. Yay!

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