**Как установить Home Assistant HA OS на мини ПК - самая простая и подробная инструкция — Transcript & Summary | SozAI** Source: https://sozai.app/transcript/install-home-assistant-ha-os-mini-pc-guide/ Step-by-step guide to installing Home Assistant OS on a mini PC for a personal smart home server without cloud dependency. ## Key Takeaways - Home Assistant OS can be installed on various mini PCs or old laptops with UEFI boot support. - Ubuntu Desktop is used as an intermediate OS to install Home Assistant OS without permanent installation. - Balena Etcher and 7-Zip are essential tools for creating bootable drives and extracting OS images. - Setting BIOS boot order correctly is crucial for booting from USB and installing the OS. - After installation, the smart home server operates independently from cloud services like Tuya or Xiaomi. ## What the video covers - Introduction to installing Home Assistant smart home platform on a mini PC. - Required hardware: mini PC with UEFI boot support, keyboard, mouse, monitor, and two USB flash drives. - Downloading necessary software including Home Assistant OS image, Ubuntu Desktop, Balena Etcher, and 7-Zip archiver. - Creating a bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive using Balena Etcher. - Extracting the Home Assistant OS image using 7-Zip and copying it to a second USB flash drive. - Booting the mini PC from the Ubuntu USB drive and running Ubuntu live session. - Installing Home Assistant OS from the second USB flash drive onto the mini PC’s M.2 SSD. - Configuring BIOS boot order to boot from USB and verifying the Linux OS load. - Accessing Home Assistant OS via local network and recommendations for static IP setup. - Customizing Home Assistant interface and managing smart home integrations. ## Chapters 1. 00:00 Introduction and Overview 2. 01:22 Preparation and Download Links 3. 02:23 Downloading Balena Etcher and Installing 7-Zip 4. 03:24 Creating Bootable Ubuntu USB Drive 5. 04:32 Extracting Home Assistant OS Image and Copying to USB 6. 04:52 Booting Mini PC and Configuring BIOS 7. 05:58 Loading Ubuntu and Preparing for Installation 8. 06:58 Installing Home Assistant OS and Initial Setup 9. 07:33 Accessing Home Assistant and Network Configuration 10. 08:54 Customizing Home Assistant Interface and Features Answers ## Questions about this video What hardware do I need to install Home Assistant OS on a mini PC? You need a mini PC or an old laptop with UEFI boot support, two USB flash drives (8GB+), a keyboard, mouse, and a monitor. Why is Ubuntu Desktop used during the installation? Ubuntu Desktop acts as an intermediate OS loaded from a USB drive without installation, allowing you to install Home Assistant OS safely. How do I create a bootable USB drive for installation? Use Balena Etcher to flash the downloaded Ubuntu Desktop image onto a USB flash drive, and use 7-Zip to extract the Home Assistant OS image for copying to a second USB drive. ## Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown 00:00 Speaker A Hello, dear friends. In this video, I want to tell you how to install the popular Home Assistant smart home management platform on a mini PC. I will try to explain every moment in great detail so that anyone who watches this video can handle this task. It's really not as difficult as it seems at first glance. And after watching, you will already have your own personal smart home server that will not depend on Tuya, Xiaomi, or eWeLink cloud services. Forward to new knowledge. 00:18 Speaker A seems at first glance. And after watching, you will already have your own personal smart home server that will not depend on Tuya, Xiaomi or eWlink cloud services. Forward to new knowledge. 00:35 Speaker A As before any business, you need to prepare a little. And so, what we will need. The first thing is a mini PC on which we will install Home Assistant. I have this model Soyo N100, which I reviewed earlier. You can use other mini PCs or even an old laptop but with support for booting into UEFI. I will give links to other models in the description under the video. Next, we will need either another PC, a laptop will do too, or a keyboard and mouse if we are going to do everything using this mini PC. Yes, Windows 10 is already installed on it and we can first download everything we need to this mini PC, and then install Home Assistant on it. Well, and don't forget about the monitor, it will come in handy. Well, and a package of programs that you must first download and install on a mini PC, or your personal computer. For you, I have collected everything in one folder. I will leave the download link in the description under the video. 00:51 Speaker A booting into UEFI, I will give links to other models in the description under the video. Next, we will need either another PC, a laptop will do too, or a keyboard and mouse, if we are going to do everything using this mini PC. Yes, Windows 10 is already installed on it and we can first 01:07 Speaker A But there are also links to all the programs that we will use, so that you can install new versions if necessary. And be sure to have two flash drives with a capacity of more than 8 gigabytes. 01:22 Speaker A everything in one folder, I will leave the download link in the description under the video. 01:26 Speaker A First of all, we need to download HA OS (Home Assistant Operating System) - download the latest version from the repository. Scroll to the very bottom, and for our system, this is the file haos\_generic-x86-64 here is the version number img.xz. Since this is an archived, that is, a compressed file, we will need an archiver. I prefer the free 7-Zip. Select and download the installer for our version, in my case it is 7-Zip installer for Windows 64-bit Windows x64. 01:36 Speaker A First of all, we need to download HA OS (Home assistant operation system) - download the latest version from the repository. Scroll to the very bottom, and for our system this is the file haos\_generic-x86-64 here is the version number img.xz . Since this is an archived, that is, 01:53 Speaker A Now we will need an intermediate operating system with which we will install HA OS. The manufacturer recommends using Ubuntu Desktop for this. The advantage of it is that we will not actually install it. We will just download from a flash drive, and only then we will install HA OS. Go to the download page and download the latest version of Ubuntu. We will be transferred to the news subscription page, do nothing until the download starts, then you can close the tab. 02:05 Speaker A Now we will need an intermediate operating system with which we will install HA OS. The manufacturer recommends using Ubuntu Desktop for this. The advantage of it is that we will not actually install it. We will just download from a flash drive, and only then we will install HAOS. Go 02:23 Speaker A Now we need to download the Balena Etcher program to create a boot disk from our flash memory card. Go to the download page and download the Etcher for Windows (x86|x64) installer (Installer). Now we install the 7-Zip archiver. Here we simply launch and agree with everything. 02:34 Speaker A Now we need to download the Balena Etcher program to create a boot disk from our flash memory card. 02:39 Speaker A Now install the 7-Zip archiver. Here, we simply launch and agree with everything. Now connect our flash drive to the USB port. But keep in mind that all data stored on it will be destroyed. After that, open the downloaded Balena Etcher program, it installs quickly, starts immediately, and is ready for work. There are only three steps. In the first, select the image, select the Ubuntu image that we downloaded before. It is important to select the Ubuntu image, not HA OS. The next step is to select the drive. Select our flash drive, and it is very important not to rush, double-check that you have selected the right one. And click Flash. 02:51 Speaker A Now install the 7zip archiver. Here, we simply launch and agree with everything. Now connect our flash drive to the USB port. But keep in mind that all data stored on it will be destroyed. After that, open the downloaded Balena Etcher program, it installs quickly, 03:07 Speaker A The process of creating a universal bootable flash drive with Ubuntu has begun. It may be useful to you in the future, and not only for installing Home Assistant. 03:24 Speaker A is very important not to rush, double-check that you have selected the right one. And click Flash. 03:30 Speaker A If your computer is productive, we can start the process of unzipping HA OS. If the PC is not very productive, it is better to wait until the creation of the bootable media is complete. 03:39 Speaker A If your computer is productive, we can start the process of unzipping HA OS. If the PC is not very productive, it is better to wait until the creation of the bootable media is complete. 03:50 Speaker A I start the unzipping process. To do this, I right-click on the haos\_generic-x86-64-14.2.img.xz archive. For Windows 11, I click show advanced options, in Windows 10 this menu will be like this. Find 7-Zip. And select Extract to and the folder name that matches the archive name. Wait. 04:13 Speaker A After completion, remove the flash drive and put it aside. Now insert a new flash drive into the USB port. The archive is unpacked, go to it and copy the image to another flash drive. Wait for it to complete. And remove the flash drive. We insert our flash drive into the USB port, 04:32 Speaker A After completion, remove the flash drive and put it aside. Now insert a new flash drive into the USB port. The archive is unpacked, go to it and copy the image to another flash drive. Wait for it to complete. And remove the flash drive. We insert our flash drive into the USB port, onto which we deployed the Ubuntu image using the Balena Etcher program. If you did everything from a mini PC, then now reboot it. If you did the preliminary preparation from a laptop or PC, it's time to turn on our mini PC. Go to BIOS (Basic Input/Output System). To do this, immediately after loading, press the DEL button on the keyboard. I talked about the BIOS of this mini PC in this video. I will install HA OS on an M.2 SSD drive, here I also showed a comparison of the operating speed compared to the built-in one. Therefore, in the BOOT section, we need to select the boot order. To do this, select Boot option #1 with the cursor arrows, press Enter. Here, select UEFI USB KEY with the cursor and press Enter. Press F4 to save the settings and exit the BIOS. After rebooting, as we can see, the Linux operating system has started loading. By default, the first option is active, install or try Ubuntu. To speed it up, you can press Enter or after 30 seconds the boot will start automatically. With this choice, the operating system will load into the RAM of your PC, and if you do nothing but simply reboot the mini PC, we will return to the Windows system again. Select language, click Next. Keyboard. We cannot connect to the Internet. Everywhere except this window further, here click Try Ubuntu. 04:48 Speaker A immediately after loading, press the DEL button on the keyboard. I talked about the BIOS of this mini PC in this video. I will install HA OS on an M2 SSD drive, here I also showed a comparison of the operating speed compared to the built-in one. Therefore, in the BOOT section, we need to select 05:07 Speaker A In a few minutes, we have a full-fledged Ubuntu operating system. Now we connect the second flash drive to the USB port, to which we copied the image of the Home Assistant operating system. 05:26 Speaker A the first option is active, install or try Ubuntu. To speed it up, you can press Enter or after 30 seconds the boot will start automatically. With this choice, the operating system will load into the RAM of your PC, and if you do nothing but simply reboot the mini PC, 05:44 Speaker A After connecting the drive, a window with the contents of our flash drive will open. 05:58 Speaker A In a few minutes, we have a full-fledged Ubuntu operating system. Now we connect the second flash drive to the USB port, to which we copied the image of the Home Assistant operating system. 06:09 Speaker A If this does not happen, go to the explorer on the left quick access panel and find our flash drive. Now we need to deploy this image to the internal drive of our mini PC. To do this, right-click on the HA OS image and select “Open with.” Here select Open with Disk Image Writer and click the Open button. After that, the application opens. In it, we need to select the internal disk of the mini PC on which we want to install HA OS. I will install on an M.2 SSD, it has these parameters. Click the button. As you can see, the process has begun. After completion, turn off our mini PC. Now take out all the flash drives and turn on the mini PC. Again, go to the BIOS by pressing DEL on the keyboard and in the Boot section, make sure that our hard drive is selected first in the boot list. You can have an internal one, for me it is an SSD in the M.2 slot. 06:13 Speaker A If this does not happen, go to the explorer on the left quick access panel and find our flash drive. Now we need to deploy this image to the internal drive of our mini PC. To do this, right-click on the HA OS image and select “open with” here select Open with disk image writer 06:28 Speaker A If this is not the case, select the desired disk and exit the BIOS by pressing F4 on the keyboard. 07:01 Speaker A turn off our mini PC. Now take out all the flash drives and turn on the mini PC. Again, go to the BIOS by pressing DEL on the keyboard and in the Boot section, make sure that our hard drive is 07:15 Speaker A A reboot occurs and the mini PC already starts with Home Assistant OS on board. 07:22 Speaker A If this is not the case, select the desired disk and exit the BIOS by pressing F4 on the keyboard. 07:27 Speaker A Now we take out all the flash drives and turn on the mini PC. Again, we go to the BIOS by pressing DEL on the keyboard and in the Boot section we make sure that our hard drive is selected first in the boot list. You may have an internal one, for me it is an SSD in the M.2 slot. If this is not the case, we set the desired disk and exit the BIOS by pressing F4 on the keyboard. A reboot occurs and the mini PC already starts with Home Assistant OS on board. 07:32 Speaker A Now we take out all the flash drives and turn on the mini PC. Again, we go to the BIOS by pressing DEL on the keyboard and in the Boot section we make sure that our hard drive is selected first in the boot list. You may have an internal one, for me it is an SSD in the 07:32 Speaker A A reboot occurs and the mini PC already starts with Home Assistant OS on board. The operating system has loaded as we can see and is available at homeassistant.local port 8123. But since we have not yet connected any cable from the router to our mini PC, I recommend doing this and rebooting the mini PC so that it receives an IP address automatically. After connecting the LAN cable, we see the IP address 192.168.1.136. Further configuration will be performed using this IP address. Now 07:33 Speaker A A reboot occurs and the mini PC already starts with Home Assistant OS on board. The operating system has loaded as we can see and is available at home assistant dot local port 81 23. But since we have not yet connected any cable from the router to our mini PC. But I recommend doing 07:45 Speaker A this and rebooting the mini PC so that it receives an IP address automatically. After connecting the LAN cable, we see the IP address 192 168 1 136. Further configuration will be performed using this IP address. Now you can disconnect the mini PC 08:04 Speaker A from the monitor, the mouse and keyboard are also not needed. All actions will be performed directly from the browser. To do this, go to the IP address issued by your router. In my case, this is 192 dot 168 dot 1 dot 136. Then put a colon and write the connection port 08:22 Speaker A eighty-one twenty-three. Press enter. Since this is our first launch, we do not have a backup copy. 08:30 Speaker A And in the future, we can quickly restore all the settings from the backup. Click “Create my smart home”. Now we need to create the first smart home user. Everything is simple here: name, login and a complex password that must be entered twice. Specify the location. In the analytics collection 08:54 Speaker A menu, I usually include everything, the product is essentially free, and why not help improve it. 08:59 Speaker A You can also select the language of the program. In the next menu, we can see which devices have already been found by the system during the first scan. Here we are on the main page of our own smart home server. Each one will have its own depending on the connected and found devices. 09:14 Speaker A The order of the tabs on the left panel will also change in the future and you can customize them according to your preferences. Let's continue with further settings. 09:23 Speaker A In the Home Assistant Cloud settings, we can activate the cloud subscription. The first month is free, then you need to pay. This allows you to manage all the services and services of your smart home when you are outside the home network. In the settings and services menu, 09:39 Speaker A we see both found and installed integrations. Since we have Bluetooth built into the mini PC, it immediately found several Bluetooth devices from the Xiaomi smart home ecosystem. The system also found devices from the Tuya smart home, several more from Xiaomi, and even Broadlink 09:56 Speaker A was found. You can either ignore them or add them to the Home Assistant smart home. 10:01 Speaker A The next setting is automation and scenes. This is where we will make our automations, work with scenes, and even write our own scripts. Now it is empty, after adding various sensors and devices, you can use them in automation. In the next setting, we can create our own 10:20 Speaker A plan of an apartment or house, add rooms, and even specify the radius of different zones on the map. When there are many devices, you can immediately understand where each sensor or device is, and it is also easier to create various group automations. 10:36 Speaker A Another important menu is Add-ons. These are additional applications that simplify our life and work with the smart home server. There are both official and unofficial ones, from the Home Assistant community. Only the most popular ones are HERE, for everyone else there is 10:52 Speaker A a search. For example, you can immediately install a file editor. Go inside and click Install. 11:00 Speaker A You can customize the control panels yourself, now there are two by default - main and energy. You can add your own, we can even add a website page. In the voice assistant settings, nothing more than a voice assistant. In the tags menu, we can manage NFC tags 11:18 Speaker A and other barcodes. In the people menu, we can create additional profiles for any of the family members and give them the necessary rights to manage the smart home. Now we go to the system settings. In the first menu, we can select the name of the smart home, change the location or language. 11:37 Speaker A Select the currency and system of units. In the updates menu, we will monitor the updates of the system and plugins. There is also a recovery menu, a menu where you can view the work log and a menu for creating a backup copy of the 11:49 Speaker A system. There are never too many backups, I recommend creating a backup plan here. I have already enabled sending analytics data, you can turn it off. 11:59 Speaker A Here is an important tab, namely network settings. As you remember, I connected the mini PC to the router via an Ethernet connection. I did not use WiFi. As you can see, there are two EN01 interfaces, by default, automatic IP address acquisition is configured, but we can change 12:17 Speaker A it to static. I recommend doing this so as not to depend on the DHCP server of our router and always know what IP address the smart home is located on. For example, 192 point 168 point 1 point 10. 12:32 Speaker A The second adapter WLP3S0 is just the WiFi adapter of our mini PC. Click on it, select search for WiFi networks and connect to your home WiFi network. After that, select your home WiFi network, select WPA-PSK encryption and enter the password for the WiFi 12:49 Speaker A network. I hope you set complex passwords for your home WiFi network! And click the save button. 12:56 Speaker A But WiFi connection has both pros and cons, the load on the processor and RAM may increase slightly. We can see this from the Hardware menu. In this menu, you can see the graphs of the processor and RAM load. As we can see on a clean system, about one gigabyte of RAM is occupied, 13:14 Speaker A and the processor load is about 1 percent. In the storage management menu, we can see how much percent is occupied for me, it is two percent of 256 gigabytes. If necessary, we can connect network storage, for example, for backups. I hope this video was useful for you and you 13:32 Speaker A can now independently create your first smart home server based on Home Assistant. As you can see for yourself, it is quite simple and in fact even a beginner without much IT knowledge can handle it. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel so as not to miss new interesting instructions on 13:47 Speaker A smart home systems and devices. In the future, I am planning a series of lessons on Home Assistant, integrations and its capabilities, I think it will be interesting. You will find all the links to the products in the description under the video. There is also a link to the telegram group, 14:02 Speaker A where you will find not only new products on the smart home system, but also coupons, promotions and other communication, and answers to questions. There are also links to the smart home forum, where all topics are divided into sections for more convenient 14:15 Speaker A communication and information search. 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