I’m trying to install Home-Assistant-Supervised on Ubuntu Linux.
That doesn’t seem to be possible, so I followed the instructions at Linux - Home Assistant to install a virtual machine.
I installed Virtualbox 7.0, and downloaded the .vdi file from the above link. I configured the virtual machine per the instructions, but get the following error:
How can I proceed? I tried the standard version of HA, but that doesn’t include the Addons, so I deleted it.
Check your system settings
EFI enabled, secure boot disabled
The only OS you can install Supervised on is Debian, no derivatives. As per these very proscriptive requirements: architecture/adr/0014-home-assistant-supervised.md at 8631a749058299f2b309226e1afd508ae5c12cc2 · home-assistant/architecture · GitHub
The Supervised installation method is usually never the best install method to choose. However…
That is Home Assistant OS in a VM, not the Supervised install method. Home Assistant OS does include the supervisor though, so you will have access to add-ons.
What exactly is the “standard version”?
The main reason I’m trying the “supervisor” version is to get access to the add-ons. If there’s an easier way, please let me know or point to good explanation.
Thanks
Yeah I understand that. All I was doing was pointing out that you are not performing a Supervised install, trying to get you to use the correct terminology to avoid confusion.
“Home Assistant Supervised Install” refers to a very specific installation method that includes everything except Home Assistant OS.
The method you are using includes Home Assistant OS (and the supervisor).
If you’re not wedded to VirtualBox, I would strongly recommend Proxmox instead. The GUI for VirtualBox runs on the machine, whereas you use a browser from anywhere for Proxmox. And there’s a Proxmox helper script to create a VM containing Home Assistant that does all the work for you.
Proxmox (PVE) is the virtualisation platform - it is the OS and you create VMs in it. So rather than installing Ubuntu plus a hypervisor, you just install Proxmox. It has a web-based UI from where you create new VMs. There are lots on YouTube tutorials on installing Proxmox and then Home Assistant.
The script is the second in the list - Home Assistant.
Under Home Assistant (2nd in list, as you pointed out), there are 5 scripts:
What’s the metal box you are planning to run Proxmox?
And if you read the descriptions of each of those choices / scripts, combined with the answer above, you would know what to pick.
That’s largely because HA has multiple install options. I would recommend Home Assistant OS VM as that’s the most common install method.