What cpu are you using in your NUC?

Installation Home Assistant OS
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So looks like you haven’t installed mosquitto-clients

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I started this thread as I needed to migrate off my PI due to the SD card wear out issue.

The short story is I went with the Intel NUC NUC8i7BEH .I went with this unit because I did not want to just run HA on it but whatever I wanted in a hypervisor environment.
I had never even heard of Proxmox until this forum (thanks for the tip) and as soon as the Nuc arrived in the mail I had Proxmox installed and running in 30 minutes. It was that easy.

Getting it to do everything I needed took some time and still working on that but sure glad I went this route. In case you don’t know, Promox allows you to take quick snapshots of the whole os so you don’t have to worry about upgrades going wrong, doing something wrong in docker, etc. It allows you to experiment and learn safely and that is a huge plus for me.

Right now the Nuc runs Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Hass.io, Ubunta 19.10 with ZFS for learning and Windows 10 pro for learning all at the same time and works great. I also have other linux distributions that I tinker with, but they are active only when I need them.

I really like this Nuc and would like to get another one in the future. In case you have not hear, the new versions are about to come out:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-nuc-10-frost-canyon-comet-lake-u-core-i7-i5-i3-cpus.

Thanks for all the help getting me to this point…

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Is there a way to use Bluetooth (for presence detection) in HA with Proxmox?

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Off the top of my head, I am not sure. But if it’s a dongle, you should be able to as that is USB.

I will give it a try with the onboard (PCI) and if I have any luck will let you know…

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I gave it a quick try last night. I have to do a bios change to get pci passthough actually working but the bottom line is it did see my SD card slot but not the internal BT.

There are some things I may overlooked and I am going to keep trying because I am curious about this myself.

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The internal BT chip is on the USB bus on my NUC. from lshw:

              *-usb:2
                   description: Bluetooth wireless interface
                   vendor: Intel Corp.
                   physical id: 7
                   bus info: usb@2:7
                   version: 0.01
                   capabilities: bluetooth usb-2.01
                   configuration: driver=btusb maxpower=100mA speed=12Mbit/s
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This worked for me as well though I used lsusb to find the port. And it works as I was able to pass it through to my Hass.io host (Ubuntu 18.04) and it saw it right away.

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lshw shows a whole heap of hardware info. “LiStHardWare”

You need to run as root to get good results, ie via sudo. I passed it through grep to find the bluetooth line, like

sudo lshw|grep -i blu

Once I knew there was a line there, I ran it again with the context switch set to 10 to get the 10 line before and after

sudo lshw|grep -i -C 10 blu

Here endeth the lesson :slight_smile:

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Which package is lshw in Nick? It’s not default installed (Debian anyway)
NVM it’s it’s own package

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Thanks good to know. The tool is in Ubunta 18.04 and 19.10, but I did not see it in Proxmox.

Now I just have to figure out what to do next with my now working bluetooth.

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Woody thanks for the help but just gave up. I couldn’t get MQTT to install on the Proxmox main server after searching for many ways to get it to work. Oh well no biggie. Thanks again.

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really strange

I installed using

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mosquitto
sudo apt-get install mosquitto-clients
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Isn’t proxmox based on debian? How can it be hard to install mosquitto?

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640kb, you’re aging yourself! :slight_smile:

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Thats why i have a Ocolus Rift S with beat saber to make me look young again ;p

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Last week I decided to upgrade my NUC, still waiting for delivery but based on this I think it should be a sweet upgrade :slight_smile:

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What you think would be a comfortable setup to run home assistant on proxmox and also a vm with pfsense?

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I’m new to home assistant and watched A TON of videos about it. And now I want to join the club :smiley:

With raspberry prices right now about 100€ or more in Germany (if you find any) I want to go with a used nuc.

I want to install the home assistant os. I dont need others things. So the OS is fine. Normally I would go with a i3 7100u

But one thing I want to do is running plex on home assistant and transcoding 4k hdr material to 1080p. So I can watch some stuff over at my girlfriends home. The synology DS718+ where plex runs right now doesn’t really do it. Will the i3 be capable of doing it?

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Ask on a plex forum.

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Cool thanks :grin: