Many ask or have problem how to install Home Assistant .ova on a Qnap. Here is a little Video on YouTube i found.
Hope it’s ok to copy the link here.
3 Likes
I’ve struggled and struggled, and now you post this and I got the OS up and running on the Qnap in minutes. Haha. Thanks a lot!
But what about hass.io? Does that still have to be managed with a Ubuntu VM separately?
With the guide above I guess we’re only getting the HA OS, but not the IO part. Sorry for my “rookieness”.
I am still stuck on the last command, since the link seems not to be working.
curl -sL “https://raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer/master/installer.sh” | bash -s
If you have got the OS running already, per the video above. Your HA install is done. Find the ip address of that VM, and you can already connect to your HA from your web browser.
So, the below does not apply to you any more:
… and you are probably using an old old old install guide that is not applicable any more today. Throw that guide away.
But what about that IO module? Or have I confused things?
It wasnt easy figuring out how easy it is to set it up. Why arnt there more simples guides on youtube, only that german one?!
I can connect to the HA and it’s up and running. So nothing else needed in terms of installations/modules etc to get things going now?
One additional question. This time regarding the HomeAssistant and the coding itself. I have figured out some basics, but would like to start with the following: I want to dim my lights when Starting KODI on my Nvidia Shield. And turn off the lights when starting to play a Movie. Any info/guides or other that you can point me to?
I’ve figured out the simple function of turning off the lights when the Shield turns on Netflix - but that doesnt make much sense. HA basically thinks I’m playing Media as soon as I start Netflix. Or the Shield sends that info.
Thanks.
Yes. If the webpage is ready, you can create local account, and you can get to your default dashboard – your HA installation on QNAP is done. Cannot be simpler.
The term hass.io is history for a while now, the developers (and this community) have stopped using that terminology for maybe 2-3 years now, trying to simply things and minimize confusion. I guess yes it could be confusing for anyone following an old guide these days. So, let’s forget whatever your install guide (from 3 years ago) has said.
Re: the additional question -
Very likely you could find answers by searching discussions in this forum, or search here (Integrations - Home Assistant (home-assistant.io)) to see what is already possible on your HA install, without any extra code install, and read documents. And if you still have question, let’s start a new thread - since your Shield/Kodi thing has nothing to do with QNAP at this point.
1 Like
I have also installed th OVA version, and so far I am quite happy with this solution.
However there is one drawback: I have not found a way to export/import configurations / backups. Because the hard drive in the VM is virtual, it apparently cannot be accessed from outside, and other way round it cannot access any share on my NAS.
Or has anyone found a way to resolve this?
with the OVA you have supervisor installed where you can install extra add-ons like Samba Share, SSH & Web terminal access…
do you have any issues with the zigbee stick? mine is getting disconnected lately, all the time. And can not fix it.
Anybody else have any luck with this recently? I’m trying to run the official HAOS 8.2 OVA in virtualization station on my TS-253 (Intel Celeron).
It installs and boots, but when I assign an IP address to the network adapter, the qemu-system process CPU usage on my NAS immediately jumps up to 100% and stays there, despite the VM hardly using any CPU at all. I’ve tried both Intel Gig Ethernet and VirtIO options.
Anybody else seen similar CPU usage issues?
Can someone help me? My ha stopped getting the IP address and I have no clue why. It’s installed on Qnap via virtual station.
Is there anything I can do? I have access to console only…
Network card is Intel and virtio-serial is “ON” in machine settings.
Hi there!
I have the same issues after installing the Home Assistant as shown in the video: I cannot access it.
I tried several addresses (e.g. http://homeassistant.local:8123 or …local:4357 or 169.xxx.xxx.x1) but it will not work. Only the console opens.
I think, the problem might be the missing “ipv4”/“ipv6” address (after input of “network info”).
Anyone an idea, how to give it an IP on the QNAP VM?
Also the Android Home Assistance App won’t find Home Assistant in my network…
Best regards and thank in advance!
[by the way: I’m a complete beginner…]
Hello
In this Video you can see the whole process to install on VM
Also the Ip Adress
Hy Bryan,
I did everything exactly as shown in the video (but installed the latest version of the OS).
Then I had the same issues:
Home Assistant is not reachable via e.g. “http://homeassistant.local:8123”
Then I tried to change the “Intel Gigabit Ethernet” to “VirtIO” and also checked the “VirtIO-serial” box.
Again: not working.
My “IPv4” is still declared as “N/A” - which seems to be the main problem.
How did you get an IPv4 address? Is it something about the “Guest Agent” (which i cannot find as well)?
Maybe you did a step in between that could solve my problem 
Thanks in advance!
System: QNAP TS-451A
VirtualizationStation 3
Home Assistant OS: 9.4
Thank you for this. I spent a whole evening trying to get this to work properly on an Ubuntu install or a container… so simple, thank you again!!!