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.

[dart wejder]

Hi! I recently tried to install an image with pre-installed HA and, to put it briefly, I failed.
Then I decided to go back to a clean installation of Armbian and install a supervised version of HA on it.
I have already done this before, but I wanted to optimize the process with your images.
And now I see that the HA team considers the supervised method unsupported.
I do not have enough experience to bypass these restrictions in the future. Therefore, I decided to go back to your version.
The issue is that these images do not have a boot partition. I tried to install using a flash drive with a boot partition from pure Armbian. But this trick did not work.
Maybe this is completely impossible, but I hope you can tell me how to install it correctly.
I am specifically interested in the image for Odroid C4, since it is for the same processor as the current TV box on Amlogic s903 x3.

[Igor]

3 hours ago, dart wejder said:

And now I see that the HA team considers the supervised method unsupported.

 

This method will keep working for years and I will try to fix problems as long as they won't take too much time.

 

3 hours ago, dart wejder said:

The issue is that these images do not have a boot partition.

 

Most of Armbian images doesn't have boot partition as it is not needed.

 

3 hours ago, dart wejder said:

I tried to install using a flash drive with a boot partition from pure Armbian. But this trick did not work.

 

Most of boards does not support boot from flash drive, but from SD card.

 

3 hours ago, dart wejder said:

you can tell me how to install it correctly.

 

I have absolutely no clue. There is a whole section of Armbian community forums that are dealing with the complexity of booting weird TV box hardware. I suggest you to start here:
https://forum.armbian.com/forum/189-faq/

 

3 hours ago, dart wejder said:

image for Odroid C4, since it is for the same processor as the current TV box on Amlogic s903 x3.

 

It is enough that board uses different memory modules and device won't give any sign of life. When you manage to boot Armbian Bookworm with help from TV box section, use armbian-config.

[SteeMan]

6 hours ago, dart wejder said:

the current TV box on Amlogic s903 x3

If you follow the instructions earlier in this thread, you can use the Armbian build framework to build an image for aml-s9xx-box with the HA additions, or just use armbian-config to add it.  I haven't tested any of those, as I just install the regular docker based HA on my home TV box to run HA.

[dart wejder]

Got it, I'll study this forum some more. Thanks for the detailed answers. I figured out how to download these strange TV boxes. They are also loaded mainly from the sd card. The only thing I wanted to clarify with you, just to understand how the boards are loaded from the sd card if there is no boot partition on it?

[SteeMan]

8 minutes ago, dart wejder said:

The only thing I wanted to clarify with you, just to understand how the boards are loaded from the sd card if there is no boot partition on it?

That isn't as simple of a question as you may think it is.  It depends.  But since you are dealing with a TV box, that would be better asked in a question over in the TV box forums as it is off topic for this thread.