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Thank-you all for the kind support. It's unbelievable how ignorant I can be on the matter. My story continues as follows: - I restarted from scratch using the same image (Armbian_20.02.0-rc1.037_Aml-s9xxx_bionic_current_5.5.0-rc6_desktop_20200205.img), reason being that in the s9xxx directory (https://mega.nz/folder/j9QSDQSQ#6WpasOlbZYIInfw6yo4phQ/folder/35ACSCjQ) there is no "Ubuntu 20.04 (focal)", as suggested by Steeman, so I don't quite know if any other image is actually compatible with my box - I managed to install Python 3.8.3 in parallel with 3.6 and I built a virtual environment from 3.8.3 - then I installed HomeAssistant within that virtual environment and all seemed to work... except that the same Home Assistant did not install the Hass.io tab... and that's when I found out that Home Assistant and Hass.io are NOT the same thing (gosh! what a mess I put myself into!) - plus I have got a bunch of other errors, inconsistently popping up (lack of Cloud, lack of Alexa, etc etc) every now and then So here I am, I will be zapping the card for the third time and try the Docker solution as suggested by jeanrhum... minor problem though: I have no idea what Docker is, and how it works and (unlike Python) I struggle to find good documentation. Any suggestion for where I should start to learn this Docker thing?

Hi everyone, I am trying to install homeassistant on an X96 box (think it is S905X). I am kind of new to Linux and Python but I have got a good deal of experience with computers and programming languages in general. I followed the instructions from this forum and successfully installed armbian on an SD card (using Armbian_20.02.0-rc1.037_Aml-s9xxx_bionic_current_5.5.0-rc6_desktop_20200205.img and pinpointing the right dtb) and managed to boot on it. Then I successfully installed homeassistant too... great then... except that the same homeassistant complained that Pthon3.6 is deprecated and it should be updated. I tried to install latest Python (3.8.3) in parallel to 3.6 but there was no way of making homeassistant build correctly then. Then I purged 3.6 and reinstalled 3.8.3 from scratch... and eventually I got the correct home assistant installation. Fine... not quite.... because, after rebooting the box, I now have a black screen with a cursor on top left and nothing else. The boot scrolls quickly with a list of OKs (in green so everything seems normal for a while) until it gets to the black screen and the process halts there... very annoying: 4 days of debugging and it now looks like I have to start it all again from scratch. Any idea what could have caused the boot to fail after Python update (for example I noticed that Python3.6 disappeared from usr/bin and 3.8 went into a ...local directory: could that be the cause?... or is it because at one point I did, I think, apt-get upgrade?)