Installing a Home Assistant Virtual Machine on Unraid

Home Assistant - VM on Unraid
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** TIMESTAMPS **
00:00 Intro
01:07 Preface
02:58 Pre-Requisites
05:23 Copying the Files to The Server
06:27 Why did you do it like that?
09:32 Creating the VM
12:40 First Boot of the VM
15:02 Validating the USB Passthrough worked
17:15 Supervisor Functions
18:31 Summary
** Helpful Links **
Home Assistant Homepage: www.home-assistant.io/
Home Assistant for iOS: apple.co/34JATce
Home Assistant for Android: bit.ly/30VUsNh
Raspberry Pi Foundation: www.raspberrypi.org/
Raspberry Pi Imager: www.raspberrypi.com/software/
Balena Etcher: www.balena.io/etcher/
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[@NigelBassman]

Thank you! Newbie Unraid and HASS user (and former Melbournian) here. I just found your channel as I was about to install HASS on a newly built Unraid server. Will follow your instructions now, then review your prior HA videos for more tips.

[@HiveMindAutomation]

Glad I could help!
IMHO, the VM method is just a bit nicer, but it will obviously take a few more resources than a basic Docker setup.

[@NigelBassman]

@@HiveMindAutomation BTW: it worked perfectly first time. Thanks again.

[@waltmummert393]

great video on VM install for unraid. Thanks.

[@HiveMindAutomation]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rrrrrrrr290]

ooooooooooooooooooooh the unraid !!

[@HiveMindAutomation]

POSSIBLY more UnRAID content coming.... not sure yet

[@naturalcarr9478]

Ohhh the ZigBee!!!

[@warpcode]

when you talk about making copies of the VM before trying something, does Unraid not support snapshots? That would be better than copying and moving around images.

[@HiveMindAutomation]

It KINDA does..... but not via the UI, and in testing I wasn't able to get it to work with this particular image in the recommended configs I found in some forums and documentation. Proxmox MIGHT've been a better option for this particular server, but that's another story...

[@akashpatel2338]

there is a way to install HASS on a container, did I miss something?

[@HiveMindAutomation]

You CAN install Home Assistant as a Docker Container, however it's not a great experience.
I might visit this topic at some point in the future if there's interest.

[@espressomatic]

installing the full OS in a VM is the preferred way to run HA - even better than bare metal because it's easier to make snapshots - which are supported in the UI in Unraid 7

[@cornbreadcuban5456]

All that command line for just a copy and paste of a folder? Why?

[@HiveMindAutomation]

Why not?
I work in IT in my Day Job and can do plenty of stuff quicker in CLI than I can using a mouse. And - in my opinion - using the Command Line keeps me "sharp"
But Mostly because the copy/paste of the folder is happening on a remote server, not my local computer.
Doing a copy/paste of a folder on a remote server over SMB is extremely inefficient.because it copies the folder down to the computer you're working from, then copies it back up to the remote server.
Over Wi-fi that would've taken ages to essentially transfer 24GB