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Setup Process

HA OS on Raspberry Pi

Home Assistant installation

Home Assistant Operating System: Minimal Operating System optimized to power Home Assistant. It comes with Supervisor to manage Home Assistant Core and Add-ons. Recommended installation method.

Full instructions

  • Download the Raspberry Pi Imager.
  • Use it to install HA OS on a USB stick, following these prompts
    • Other specific-purpose OS
    • Home assistants and home automation
    • Home Assistant
    • Home Assistant OS X.X (RPi 4/400)
  • Boot the RPi from the USB stick and follow installation prompts

Proxmox

  • Download the latest proxmox ISO file from here
  • Use Rufus to write it to a USB stick
  • Boot the machine from the USB stick and follow the installation prompts

Network Setup

Set DNS server
nano /etc/resolv.conf

Change nameserver to 8.8.8.8

Set IP address and gateway
nano /etc/network/interfaces

Helper Scripts

Proxmox VE Post Install

This script provides options for managing Proxmox VE repositories, including disabling the Enterprise Repo, adding or correcting PVE sources, enabling the No-Subscription Repo, adding the test Repo, disabling the subscription nag, updating Proxmox VE, and rebooting the system. 

bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/main/misc/post-pve-install.sh)"
Home Assistant OS VM

This script automates the process of creating a Virtual Machine (VM) using the official KVM (qcow2) disk image provided by the Home Assistant Team. It involves finding, downloading, and extracting the image, defining user-defined settings, importing and attaching the disk, setting the boot order, and starting the VM. It supports various storage types, and does not involve any hidden installations.

bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/main/vm/haos-vm.sh)"
Cron LXC Updater

This script will add/remove a crontab schedule that updates all LXCs every Sunday at midnight.

bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/main/misc/cron-update-lxcs.sh)"
Docker LXC

Docker is an open-source project for automating the deployment of applications as portable, self-sufficient containers.

bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/main/ct/docker.sh)"
Don't accept the defaults

Need to enable root SSH and increase disk size

MQTT

docker compose run --rm -it mqtt mosquitto_passwd -c /mosquitto/config/pwfile homeassistant

Zigbee

HACS

Zigbee2MQTT

Dashboarding

  • InfluxDB
    • Set up buckets
    • API tokens
  • Grafana
    • Set up data sources
  • Home Assistant
    • Attach to InfluxDB
  • Proxmox
    • Set up metric server