Le Potato and Armbian Home Assistant 26.2.1

[GeertVc]

Hi,

 

First post here.

I'm fairly new with Armbian.  I have a LibreComputer Le Potato that I want to use for Home Assistant.  To avoid all the hassle of setting up Home Assistant with docker, I used the Armbian imager to install the Armbian 26.2.1 Home Assistant on an SD card.

Once the SD card was flashed, I put it into the Le Potato board.  The board starts up fine, asks for the root password, creates a new user and so on.

Later on, the Preparing Home Assistant Supervised window appears.  However, after the first round to 100% I get a "RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument" on the screen.  The preparation goes on and on, moving the progress bar over and over to 100%.  But the installation seems to never stop. 

See the image attached for the error I get.

Anyone any idea?

 

Best,

--Geert

[GeertVc]

Update: if I wait long enough, then I finally see the Reboot screen.

After reboot, I can go to http://<IP_address_Le_Potato>:8123 and I do see the Home Assistant intro screen.

After creating an account, giving the location parameters and so on, I finally get the Home Assistant screen.

I see in the command terminal that the following containers are available:

• hassio_observer
• hassio_supervisor

See attached image.
 

However, when I go to Settings, I don't see the Add-ons section.  I admit I'm not a Home Assistant expert yet (first steps into HA) but I thought that the superviisor was just to have the Add-ons section available to the user?  That's the reason I tried the Armbian Home Assistant image, hoping the Add-ons section would be available.
Do I have to make myself a "supervisor" (again, I'm not a Home Assistant expert yet...)?  If so, how can this be done?

I need MQTT and Zigbee2MQTT, hence the need for the Add-ons section, which I currently don't have...

 

Best,

--Geert

[eselarm]

12 hours ago, GeertVc said:

However, when I go to Settings, I don't see the Add-ons section. 

I have the same on my 2 year old HA Supervised install I did once on a Debian Bookworm installation (Aarch64). 

I actually first did the same as you, not on a real HW Lepotato SBC, but as a KVM QEMU U-Boot. One only needs to change boot.scr in the (Amlogic) image, the kernel runs on virtio devices. I can confirm the 15-min waiting, or longer, I haven't looked at it, is a bit strange, but it magically still works this Supuervised. I did restore a backup from my Debian HA install, so very little effort.

 

But it shows as problem that the OS is unsupported and also unsupported install method. The later is known and on HA Wiki/docs, supervised it not mentioned anymore, only the own HAOS en Container.

 

I think 'Add-ons' are now called 'Apps' and also Container does not seem to support it. So for MQTT I anyhow have mosquito as Debian package installed. But teh Zigbee bridge is then a showstopper I see / I think. But also check yourself. I have no ZigBee HW and also HA is only testing for mee, see it it does things better than my current home automation softwares (mostly Node-RED based).

 

The only option I see then is to put HAOS as KVM on Lepotato. It is 4x Cortex-A53 I see, so it can work. But not sure how RAM will work out. If 1GB RAM, then maybe 512M host and 512M guest. I have done that on RPI3 to run a router instance using VLANs.