New HomeAssistant on a fresh i3 NUC

Installation
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Hello,
I just got myself a new NUC that I will use for home automation and I have used HA on my Raspberry but will replace it now.

I like to have the NUC running Linux platfor so I can use it also for other things and I hope I can ask you guys for recommendations.

  1. What distribution/version of linux do you recommend?
  2. Is hass.io on docker the best way to go or are there other HA distributions that I like to try out?

It doesnt necessarily need to be the easiest way to set it up but I want access to add-ons like grafana/influxdb/mqtt/node-red and so on.

So what installation / deployment do you guys recommend?

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  1. Debian (server) or Ubuntu (server) are well tested
  2. You can’t use the Hass.io installer without Docker :wink: There’s really only three recommended options, Hass.io, Docker, and the venv install.

However, if you want add-ons (which are just Docker containers - which are just a way of running software like Grafana) then Hass.io is the only choice. If you go with Docker you have to install the other containers manually, and if you’ve used a venv install then you need to use apt (or whatever) to install software.

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Try THIS, use the Ubuntu guide.

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Thank you very much for the guide. It answered a lot of questions I had. Expecting a NUC8i5BEH, M2 SSD and 16 GB of RAM to arrive in a couple of days!

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Personally used this a few months ago to setup my NUC: https://www.juanmtech.com/set-up-hassio-in-docker-and-in-an-ubuntu-server/

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I installed on Ubuntu server. Works good. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/installation-of-home-assistant-on-intel-nuk-nuk7i5bnk-ubuntu-server-18-04-2-lts/108228