Thanks for this. Huge help. A tip for those trying this.
Wipe the partition first if the disk was previously used as mine was, otherwise the restore does not work. I had Proxmox on mine prior and the restore keep coming up with an error until I booted back to Windows, wiped the drive and created a new partition.
It’s best to have downloaded and unzipped the image file prior to booting into Ubuntu and have this on another USB stick. That will provide the easiest method of locating the *.img file for the restore process.
I’ve noted that the dev version does not seem to have a ‘reload’ icon for the snapshot page. Not sure if this is 0.109.3 or the HassOS. Once you’ve copied your backup files to the backup folder, you’ll need to reboot the hardware for these to be discovered.
‘it’ is your disk on which you want to restore the image.
Since you are running this on a nuc I presume there is just one disk? I did this on my m2
So on a root terminal
run gnome-disks
restore image/disk (under the waffle icon)
choose your disk
overwrite contents (you will be erasing the current disk)
I started gparted and checked bootable flag on the disk as well
Just bought a NUC5i3, 8Gb/128Gb M.2 and using gnome-disks did not worked for me, it booted but was stuck before the end of the boot. I downloaded Balena Etcher and HassOS from Ubuntu live and then flashed HassOS image directly to SSD. Worked perfectly!
For performance improvement, I’m working on upgrading the a HA setup to NUC i5-6260U | 1.8GHz | 16GB RAM running Ubuntu 20.04 with Virt-Manager but am still unable to get working in a stable & consistent manner see post
The NUC is on my desk, SSD drive inside. No usb/sata adapter at hand, can’t use balena and will try gparted method. How/when can I set the fixed IP address for hassio?
Thank you all for this great information on installing what appears to be Home Assistant’s flagship device, especially now that generic linux is no longer supported.
I think it’s important to get this documentation improved as it’s certainly been a headache hunting down all the information from a long thread, especially as a noob.
A $20 NVME USB adapter seems like an expensive solution for a single use case not to mention the delicate NVME port which isn’t intended to handle repeated installment.
I found a way that’s easier than using “gnome-disks”/“Disks” (although I did get this to work once) to flash the NVME SSD w/ Etcher on a “Try Ubuntu” live boot from Ubuntu Desktop flashed USB.
Live Boot from Ubuntu USB
Download/Copy Etcher + Hassio img
Turn off safe mode in Etcher settings (for Etcher to recognize SSD)
Flash SSD w/ HASSIO NUC img
Reboot NUC
At this point, I’m having connectivity issues with http://hassio.local.8123 which worked on PI and VM. I attempted to edit the nmcli config based on T.H.U. recommendations for VM, notably connection to my router and rbpi’s old ip address(I’ve reused this ip address before so I’m doubting it’s a router issue). Something I did in nmcli bricked the device w/ blackscreen w/ white underscore requiring a re-flash after multiple attempts.
Could this be to do with some boot setting? - I can’t change my boot priority boot type from UEFI like in Intel’s OpenElec documentation as recommended somewhere in the community. UPDATE I attempted legacy boot but this failed to recognize my SSD.
Thank you for this. Three years later still relevant. I used this method two weeks ago to convert my Mac Mini VM + Vera Plus driven HA build to a NUC. Restored from a snapshot and I was up and running in less than an hour. I think most time was spent trying to find a keyboard to hit enter key on as we are a Mac house with all bluetooth Apple peripherals. I popped out the M.2 stick and loaded the image directly. plugged it in and I was good to go.
The VM build although amazing as I could mess around with it, randomly would have ethernet errors. Even though the VM was given a dedicated NIC. Drove my S.O. crazy because her Makeup scene button would randomly fail every so often and I would have to cycle HA. Since the conversion two weeks and no issues. I also notice my lutron integration (with scene buttons all over the place) reacts a bit quicker than it already was.
NUC / Vera Plus is rock solid combo!
I still use the MAC Mini to as testing grounds and the lady of the house is happy for the reduction in downtime when implementing new logic/devices.
Struggled with this for two days on my 6thgen celreron nuc 4gb ram 120gb sata ssd. Tried everything with both official nuc image and beta. Tried live cd, gparted, discs etc. and also booting from thumbdrive with nuc image etc. Nothing got the image written to my ssd. Could it be my 4gb ram that is insufficient for buring the image from Ubuntu “live cd” ?
Anyway in the end i just plugged the ssd directly into my computer and flashed the image directly and was up and running in less than 20 minutes. Shame on me for wasting many hours trying to do it the fancy way
