Armbian with preinstalled Home Assistant supervised

[Igor]

2 hours ago, Thanh Tu said:

How to update new image?

What do you mean by that? Images that are currently available are still from 25.2 ... new will be created soon. But you can anyway update them standard way: apt update + apt upgrade.

[Torte]

FYI: The following refers to a supervised installation done with armbian-config (starting from "community_25.5.0-trunk.370"). Not sure if the ready homeassistant Armbian images behave differently.

 

Before apt-upgrading the system running homeassistant (supervised), I recommend a) doing a full image backup and b) locking homeassistant-supervised ("apt mark hold homeassistant-supervised"):
Updating homeassistant-supervised with apt-upgrade first showed a selection box of the used hardware (none of them matched my rockchip64/rock 4c+ AFAIK - in despair I chose qemu-aarch64), afterwards homeassistant went into first initialization setup (the "wait ~20 minutes to set up" message). Not sure, if it would have somehow fixed itself - I reverted to the (full-image) backup once I saw that message.
Having locked the supervised package beforehand, "apt upgrade" was able to update the system without breaking homeassistant (at least it looks like that so far).

[Igor]

52 minutes ago, Torte said:

Updating homeassistant-supervised with apt-upgrade first showed a selection box of the used hardware

I see. This package is done bad in first place. No wonder they decide to simply drop everything ... Most of people anyway use embedded HAOS.

 

Then we should not adding updated packages to the repository anymore. 

[äxl]

Hi, I've just ordered a Rock 3A and would install Debian 12 (Bookworm) with Home Assistant Application from your site as soon as the board arrives. My question: I also want to use evcc (another home automation appliance). It is available as an HA add-on but it is also mentioned in the docs as its own Armbian package. What is the right way to go? Install it as an add-on on Home Assistant or install it as an Armbian package?

[Igor]

8 hours ago, äxl said:

with Home Assistant Application from your site as soon as the board arrives.

I would suggest you to download clean Debian minimal image and proceed this way:
https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Software/HomeAutomation/#home-assistant

 

EVCC can be installed this way - official Docker container:

https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Software/HomeAutomation/#evcc

 

8 hours ago, äxl said:

It is available as an HA add-on

 

How to deal with EVCC from HA, no idea. This is application level knowledge and I am just an average user of HA. I assume addon will want to connect to the service which runs on some IP address and some port. IMO this part is similar as official HAOS image.

 

8 hours ago, äxl said:

What is the right way to go? Install it as an add-on on Home Assistant or install it as an Armbian package?

Current application images are not yet rebuild with latest stable base, so until then its better going clean Debain + armbian-config way.

[guy cal]

Which image can be used for a orangepipc2 ? ( H5 processor, 1 Mb ram ?

[Igor]

10 minutes ago, guy cal said:

Which image can be used for a orangepipc2

 

Well, for Home Assistant, Armbian / Debian Bookworm image is required. That we usually provide for all variants, supported and not supported. Since this hardware is not actively maintained, we don't know if there are any hardware level issues related to this board. Here you are on your own, hope for / wish you luck. Usually things works ... Next step is this: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Software/HomeAutomation/#home-assistant It will provide the same result as image with pre-loaded Home Assistant.