Orange Pi 3 2GB and 8GB emmc

Hardware
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I love my set up now, if you are looking at going away from an SBC, NUCs are a great option.

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Does bluetooth_tracker works with your NUC?
I have a NUC8I3BEH and intsalled Hassio in a vm in VIrtualbox… loading a vid image…
Virtualbox detect intel bluetooth device… bat Hassio don’t recognize it.

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I can’t answer that, I use the Unifi WiFi tracking component for around the house, and Zanzito via MQTT for GPS tracking.

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bluetooth tracker is very very fast to detect people in and out of house, more fast tha any wifi device.
I use bluetooth in addiction to router wifi detection.

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If you had Ubiquiti equipment and use Unifi tracking component, you wouldn’t make this comment. But if you are happy using Bluetooth, then no problem.

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I’m using the Orange Pi 3. I don’t know how useful my review will be, since this is my first Home Assistant install, so I don’t really have a basis for comparison. I of course wasn’t able to use hass.io or any of the other simpler installation methods, but using the Ubuntu Server image from the Orange Pi site, I was able to follow the venv instructions for installing Home Assistant, and it’s been working great. (one thing to note here: the gpio group does not exist on the Orange Pi Ubuntu Server image, so I had to leave that out - not sure whether that will impact the ability to access the GPIO pins) The only issue I’ve run into so far is something I’m pretty sure is a software/configuration issue: I sometimes am unable to get the frontend to load over the Tor Hidden Service I’ve set up.

In summary: this seems to be very capable hardware, and hasn’t given me any trouble. It helps that I’m rather familiar with Linux since I wasn’t able to use one of the more ready-made installation methods, but it’s been pretty smooth sailing so far. :tangerine::pie:

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That link isn’t working for me, do you have another?

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Did you tried the Orange Pi Prime Hassio image on your Orange Pi 3?

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The Hassio image won’t work for Orange Pi 3 until Hassio is released using at least the Linux 5.2 kernel, which probably won’t happen until Linux releases a new Long Term Support release for Linux 5.x, as it seems to me Hassio is using only LTS releases of Linux kernel. Maybe the OrangePi 3 board support will be backported to 4.14 (used by Hassio) or 4.19 (latest LTS), in which case it can be supported by Hassio.

Some info here:
https://linux-sunxi.org/Xunlong_Orange_Pi_3

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I just installed hass.io on my Orange Pi 3 “Ubuntu Bionic with Armbian Linux 5.3.9-sunxi64”
Haven’t tried it very much, but it starts and I am able to create a user.

I used the orangepi-prime setting on the curl command line

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Bluetooth and wifi works without problems with system on ssd USB 3.0 and with rflink/conbee II? I ask for it because that things doesn’t work properly on raspberry pi 4.

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@magpern , por favor, compartilha a imagem de seu home assistant orange pi. Obrigado

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Hola eduardo - ÂżQuĂŠ Tal?

You can install armbian on your sbc and than install HA Container, Core or Supervised (the later officially unsupported for armbian)