Unfortunately, none of your recommendations worked. I never get to a Dell logo.
I’m very new to this and think I may have purchased a thin client with no memory. Can anyone tell me from this photo what I would need to do? Or what I would need to buy? Or am I SOL?
That’s not a Dell Wyse 5020. It’s a P25 (or 5030 zero) with only a miniscule amount of onboard storage (512Mb ram and 32Mb - yes that’s Mb - flash). You won’t be able to install HA on that.
To get into the bios it’s an option on the VMware front page. Watch this:
Hopefully you can return it. There are many Thin Clients available on eBay for ~$50.
Thanks for all the input. This was a newbie error. I thought I ordered the 5020, but actually ordered the 5030. I’m ordering a 5030 now. I’m hoping these specs are sufficient to run HA.
Dell Wyse 5020 Thin Client, AMD GX-415GA SOC @1.5GHZ, 4GB DDR3, 32GB SATA
That will work great I have had mine running for over two years. I did stick a 120 SSD in mine, but the 32GB will work fine.
I would recommend the 5070 if you can get it at a good price (the pentium silver version)
Start tapping the Delete key immediately after turning on until the BIOS screen appears. This works for almost all Dell Wyse Thin Clients.
I’ve got several thin clients running various applications like Open Media Vault for my audio and video. You can pickup an HP620 for about $45 in eBay. It has a 1.5ghz quad core CPU 16gb ssd and 4gb ram.
Upgrade the SSD to 128gb for $15 and you have a solid device to run Home Assistant. Uses only about 7 watts .
Will 32 Gb be enough if all it’s running is HA?
The Dell Thin Clients have Display Ports for video out so make sure you have a monitor that has Display Port. Mine didn’t so I bought a Display Port to HDMI adapter.
I just saw this for the first time and can add my experience. The dell/wyse 5010 is rock solid for HA, had mine running for the last year with no crashes,freezes or other issues to speak of.
Pretty much all of them will on this particular PC. You will most likely need to trim part of the ram metal shield away (it’s pretty thin so not difficult). One of the SSD holes will line up with a mount hole and if you are really lucky there will be a spacer here. Otherwise use a plastic spacer on the other hole and hot glue it to the motherboard.
I have used this for HA also but if you can spring for a better CPU I would recommend it as this is not as snappy as its more powerful siblings like the 5060 or 5070.
My HP620 Thin Client is running with 4GB RAM and came with 16GB SSD, But I did just upgrade it to 128GB SSD. Cost is so cheap at $14 … All runs great…
Same here, put in an additional 4GB, but don’t think it was needed after all, 4GB is just fine.
And just if others are interested, since Raspberry Pi’s are non existent at the moment.
you can readily find Used/Retired HP t620 Thin Clients on eBay for about $35 - $45
The units are “Bullet Proof” and will just last forever as everything is Solid State, no Mechanical HD’s no Fans… So don’t be afraid of buying used. Got my HP t620 for $35 and it came with 4GB Ram, 16GB SSD M.2
The unit has an AMD Quad Core CPU that will easily support two monitors with video playback.
As I said earlier I put in a 128GB SSD from Amazon $15 and One is running HA, the other Open Media Vault that hosts my Music and Video Library, with a 4TBUSB External HD for media storage.
It easily streams to any of our 4 TV’s.
The 3rd one will eventually be my Router Firewall running OpenWRT os.
And I’m using one right now as a Desktop Computer running Windows 10 Pro, with two monitors on it.
Impressive for normal desktop use, but not for Power Intensive Applications.
Yes 4GB seems just fine for my own needs. 
Any idea if this HP T620 or T630 are able to host a coral tpu in the mini PCIe format?
The thin clients have dedicated space for wifi/ble cards and ssd’s as I can see here:
but is it the right connector and does it offer sufficient speed for the task?
I am playing with an HPt630 right now. Its 4gb ram and 8gb ssd. It is struggling a bit with proxmox, HA, pihole and OMV. I found it on eBay at £25, I am waiting for some ram (16gb) to turn up and a 256gb ssd.
Right now in tests the processor gets to about 50% but generally sits at 25% ish. Ram is full. To be fair in tests HA does not struggle and responds well. Not tried any camera stuff so can’t comment on Coral etc. I am running it on a usb sata ssd for the time being.
Things to be aware of.
They are a lot bigger than NUC’s
The m.2 slot is sata not NVMe. So no it wont take coral, you will need a usb one
VGA ports are an option but most just have Displayport. Not an issue if you have the right monitor but i needed an adapter.
It looking like it will replace my 2 pi4’s I have running as soon as the ram turns up.
I think it could be working with a coral dual edge tpu because it’s an a+e key, i want to test it for more than a year but can not get one, they are always out of stock.
Hi. ANybody resolved and install Home Assistant OS from image on SSD in Dell Wyse 5070 ? I know that generix96-x64 image works perfect on HP T630. But any test it on Dell Wyse 5070 ?
