I just bought a Raspberry Pi AI kit that I would like to setup on a Raspberry PI 5 running HassOS. On the terminal for the RP5, I’m not able to run common tools like “apt” since they’re not installed with HassOS. is there a way to install common tools on this OS so that I can install Hailo-8l libraries? Or is there another way to install these libraries on HassOS?
Your best option is to install Raspian with Supervised. That will give you the ability to install the drivers needed and well as give you what is essentially HAOS, though you’re going to be responsible for keeping the OS updated.
Don’t run supervised. It’s a very bad idea. Chances are that the additions made to make that work will interfere with HA. Also supervised is difficult to keep running healthy for experts. Someone asking this question will likely have a very frustrated time trying to run supervised. And there are currently discussion to have it removed from the official supported install methods list.
I suggest putting it on another PI, or putting Ha on a different device and using the PI for the AI.
My current use case is to offload AI object detection from Frigate to the Hailo-8l. I would need to at least run Frigate on the same PI that is connected to the Hailo, but right now I’m using the HA Frigate Add-On.
You could run frigate in a docker container or possibly native on that pi.
Unless someone has added an add-on and managed drivers for that AI hardware, that’s where you will be.
Just know that supervised is a monster to maintain and keep up to date and I recommend NoOne use it at this point.