I have updated the description with new commands to address the previous comments below about the installation not working. Hopefully this addresses the issues some viewers had due to Balena getting in a fight with their previous cloud hosting provider. Enjoy!!
This video was great inspiration. Something that happened to me is that the etcher kept crashing at 31% when running Ubuntu in try mode (limited persistence). After many hours of trying I figured I could use a second thumb drive and fully install Linux there from the first thumb drive, then boot with a fully installed Linux and run the etcher from there to install hassio on the SSD. That finally worked!
Thanks for the concise instructions. For those of you with the issue: Balena Etcher error when installing - “something went wrong” Put the github link into the browser and download the file locally, then point etcher to the downloaded file.
You absolutely ROCK. Thank you for this! HAOS is loading now on my Beelink, I tried about 15 different ways to do this and yours is the only one that works well!
Nice Video. I tried another Smart home guy's video where he asked to use 2 USB sticks. Quite similar process, however, I ended up copying the Home Assistant image directly from Ubuntu OS by downloading. Your method was very practical and would have saved tone of my time trying to fire commands in Terminal. Anyways, thanks for the video. Will keep it for future. !!!
Yeah, I saw that same video. Tried it and it didn't work. Lol was part of my research for this one. Unfortunately, balena got mad at cloudsmith, and so my video doesn't work either. You have to download etcher in a browser and run it since the command line way leverages cloudsmith. But such is the way of IT.. Changes faster than anyone can keep up with! Thanks for watching!
Thank you SOOOOOO much. I have been so frustrated over the last couple of days trying to get HAOS installed on my NUC and nothing worked. Finally I followed your video and it worked in a matter of minutes. There were a couple of small differences in your installation method that were different than other videos I watched an it made all the difference.
I feel your pain brother!! I sat there for nearly an entire day and was like "why is this so hard? I'm a smart guy... All these instructions I've found so far are terrible, none of them work!" I'm so happy to hear you found the video, and that it worked for you. Thank you for the kind words, they really make this all worthwhile!! Thanks for watching!
Hi Jeff, as always, a great video. Roughly following your steps, I got this to work on an old Lenovo mini PC. I’m not sure it was worth all I had to kill. You might want to take some of my issues under consideration for your updated video. Erasing the disk. This Lenovo has 256 GB of M.2 memory. I know this is overkill for Home Assistant, but this is what I had. When partitioning the drive, it was going to take over 3 hours to erase the SSD. I stopped this step and started over. It wasn’t necessary. I wish I could say that I used to use Linux and then my daddy got a job. The truth is that I have been a computer hobbyist for 40 years and an IT professional for much of that. As with you, I don’t know Linux. I wish I had read the comments before going into the bogs. As you replied, the command line prompts you provided will not get Etcher installed. Of course, it turned out to be very simple using Firefox. I could not get Etcher to write from the URL. Yes, I removed the extra space. I downloaded the image with the same URL and made progress. The first time I tried writing to the SSD, the entire PC froze at 36% and never recovered. I started over and the PC froze again at 36%. Your youtube video was playing and I heard you repeating a one second snip for 5 minutes. Then the PC moved on and finished writing the image quickly. After that, everything worked as expected. I hope there is something in here that helps when you update the video. Thanks for your great work.
Hey Jeff. Thank you, thank you, thank you ... for this video. It's been a lifesaver to me. I've spend many hours, following the official guides (as you also refer to), with no other result than frustrations and more grey hairs. But now, at last, I've god a working HA-installation, thanks to you. When my blood pressure reaches normal levels again, I'll check your other videos. They will undoubtedly contain more "gold-nuggets" for a new-comer within HA as I. Have a nice day and keep up the good work!
Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm really glad to hear that you were able to get it working. It's really a complex process, even with this video (see other comments...) I hope you enjoy the rest of the content, and if you've got any questions or ideas, please feel free to let me know. Thank you for watching, and enjoy your new home assistant server!
WOW, thank you. Thank you and thank you. Did I say, thank you!!! DAMN DUDE. I was having issues trying to get Etcher to work in Ubuntu and could not get it to work. Your video and description just made it easy and flawless. Home Assistant is now installed and working like a charm. Now, it is time to learn Home Assistant. Once again, thank you. I just subscribed.
Awesome! Comments like this really make my day, man. It's so rewarding knowing that people were able to solve their problems and move forward by watching my videos. Thank you for taking the time to comment, and thank you for watching!
Brilliant, thanks very much. Used these steps for my HP T530. Worked a treat! Found a comment somewhere about copy/paste and used the Ubuntoo Firefox browser to get back to this video to grab to the lines to enter - much easier than typing!
Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad to hear this worked for you! That's an awesome idea about the browser, great work!! If I do an update to this video at some point I'll have to be sure to include that. Thanks for watching!!!
Saved my sanity! I was able to flash Home Assistant to an HP T520 thin client by following these instructions with very little trouble. There is a space in front of 'github' in both of the above links that must be removed for those to work and Etcher refused to flash from a URL. Downloading the file and flashing from file worked flawlessly. I am now a subscriber and will be using your videos to help me with this! Thank you!
The space is explained in the description. ;) glad you were able to get it working and that you found the video helpful. Thank you for watching and subscribing!
Awesome! I'm so glad to hear this video was helpful. I know I say this constantly, but I really do love hearing from viewers, and it makes me smile to know that I was successful in making the complicated stuff easier to understand and helping people solve their problems. Thank you so much for the kind words, and thank you for watching!!! :)
I have been playing around with an old Lenovo mini PC with a bunch of Linux distros, but haven't had much luck. Will give your steps a try. By the way, I appreciate the effort you put into making the presentation useful, to the point, and fun.
I just bought the same NUC and installed home assistant exactly as you explained in the video. Thanks dude! I have been trying to run HA on a Raspberry Pi 3 with 1GB of ram, and as I've built out my system more, it crashes frequently due to low memory. Hoping to start over with the NUC as the main brain for my setup. Thanks again.
Awesome! Glad to hear everything is going well for you. That's exactly what happened to me, too - started with an RPI, fell down the rabbit hole and overwhelmed it. "We need more power, Scotty!" 😂 Thanks for watching, and hopefully you find some of my other content useful as well!
Watched the video a couple more times and finally got it to work. Thanks. The video vocal is a little too fast for me so I had to rewind and listen again several times. Also there are two more problems that took me a while to figure out. Maybe just me but hope this can help others too. (1) After starting the Gnome-disks app. I typed those commands on the same terminal window, not realizing that it is now a window for running Gnome-disks app, no longer a terminal window for commands. I had to start another terminal window to type those commands. A little frustrating but learned something (2) It was mentioned that the HA image URL and a blank space. I didn't understand it from the video so the download did not work. Again took me a while to figure it out. I think a note next to the URL can help. Overall, it didn't go as smoothly as I hope but still a great video instruction. Thanks.
Once you close gnome-disks, you can use the terminal window again. Glad you were able to get it to work! As for video speed, you can adjust that on your computer. That's a standard feature of TH-cam. :) Thanks for coming back and commenting with your update, I've literally been watching the comments since your last one to see if you were able to get it all sorted. I've very happy that you were able to get things all set. Thanks for watching, and enjoy your new HA server!
Great video! I prefer this one over the new one as it saved me the trouble of taking the NUC apart and faffing around with connectors. The only thing I'd add is that you could advise the user to open Firefox on the Ubuntu instance and navigate to this video so they can easily copy and paste in the commands. As a fat fingered clumsy typer this is what I did as I'm notorious at mistyping stuff yet oddly fastidious about accuracy.
Thank you! Yes, my original intention was only this video, but with how quickly software changed, and there were issues with Etcher and their cloud hosting provider for a while.. The instructions in this video sometimes work, and sometimes don't. I'm glad that it worked for you! That's a great idea about copy/paste the commands. I should have thought of that!! I'll add it to the video description. :) Thanks again for the superthanks, and thanks for watching!
What a man!! i spent 3 hours last night banging my head against a wall. then found your video and i am up and running. the command line for installing etcher didnt work for me, not sure what i did wrong, but i did it manually without issue. The big bit missing from the home assistant guides was the deletion of the partition. subscribed, cant wait to join you on the journey
Awesome, glad to hear it! I'm honestly not even sure if the way I showed is the "right" or "best" way (short of removing the ssd and using an external enclosure) - all I know is that it finally worked, and I was able to repeat it, so... As long as it works, I'm happy. Lol if this is your first go 'round, check out my video on "7 things to do after install", and the 3 videos on automations. I find myself constantly reading and watching videos about automations. Even if I don't do exactly what they did in the video, often times it will spark some idea for something else I can do. Thanks for watching, and thank you for the sub!
Nice to know someone with your experience still has "want to throw the keyboard at the monitor days" as well :)) thanks for absorbing the frustration for us
The first command to open the window to select and delete the disks partition is gnome-disks it took me a while to figured that out since I could not clearly understand what you said.
Thank you!! I am so grateful for each and every person that watches, comments, likes, subscribes, and otherwise interacts with the channel. All of you have provided great motivation to continue making more content for you guys. I hope you enjoy watching my content as much as I enjoy creating it. :)
@@Donhanichak yep! Several others have remarked similarly. That's a great way to go if you have to knowhow to remove & reinstall the drive. My goal with this was to keep it software-only since that's a bit more of an approachable method for the lesser-technical people who may still want to get into home assistant. :)
When I installed Home Assistant on my NUC I just used windows but it requires a USB adapter for an nVme drive, or SATA drive depending on what type of boot drive your NUC has. Flashed with Etcher, put the drive into my NUC and it booted right into Home Assistant. Now, this method obviously requires a second computer (not the NUC) and USB adapter but it works, or at least it did about 2 years ago when I went through this process. You do have to open the NUC, remove the drive and put it back in after flashing so if you're not comfortable with this then this method is better. Also, just take a full backup from your existing Home Assistant install from say, a raspberry pi and do a full restore to the NUC. This may or may not work for the USB ZigBee adapter as I did not have one on my raspberry pi when I went through this process but everything else was restored and was working with zero issues. If you use ZHA you can do a backup of your ZigBee devices then restore them to your USB adapter after installing 8t on your NUC. That's what I did when I moved from a deconz USB ZigBee adapter to a Home Assistant SkyConnect. There is a way to do it with Zigbee2MQTT also but I can't remember the method off the top of my head. I highly recommend auto backup and snapshot cleanup from HACs, especially if you are running Home Assistant on an SD card on a raspberry pi. Auto backup takes full or partial backups at specified times you define like every 12 hours and snapshot cleanup will let you specify the number of backups to keep like 10 so you don't fill your drive with backup files. Obviously you can keep more but that depends on the size of the drive in your NUC. SD cards can easily go bad and the number one reason is not using a proper power supply as the pi might boot but if you are underpowering it it will ruin your SD card very quickly. I think I went through maybe 5 SD cards before learning this. Lastly, always copy your backups to another drive, a USB drive or over the network because those backups are useless if you only store them on the Home assistant drive and that drive goes bad and you are unable to restore any data from it those backups are useless.
All great points, several of which have been covered in other videos. For a much easier backup solution, check out my video. Automatic cloud storage, so you don't have to worry about copying anything. Thanks for watching! :)
Just a regular guy and Definitely a love / hate relationship with HA. I have it running right now on old Optiplex in a Virtual box. While that is working it is a bit finicky with HA upgrades and automatons not working after. Going to try using this FHT using a Beelink Mini and will let you know how it goes. Thanks for the video
My pleasure! Should work fine. My understanding of the beelink stuff is it's same/same as a NUC, just a different brand name. Probably the same parts inside. Lol Let me know how it works out for you, and thanks for watching!
@@fasthowto your instructions worked great, Got HA loaded. Now have decide to restore the backup I have or start again form scratch. Thinking I will try restore first since I can always start from scratch thanks again 👏🎆
@@fasthowto I got the preparing HA login scree. n but then it just stopped there. I rebooted and am not getting IP using Ethernet or the wireless connections. I am going to use nmcli and manually connect to the wifi or try that. Told you love hate relationship. Same thing with the J.O.B. in software but at least I am getting paid for that frustration 🤣
@@OBD01 oh, man.. Lol you do have a dhcp server on your network, right? Anything on the forums? Maybe the beelink has a different NIC in it that HAOS doesn't have drivers for?
@@fasthowto I do have a dhcp server, not sure why it is not pulling an IP. Anyway setting the wifi manually at least got me online. Once I finish configuring I will see if I can figure out where the issue is with the auto dhcp stuff.
Hi and thanks for the video. I was almost there... LOL (Newbie) I watched and tried and watched and tried until I figured out that Etcher is no longer working with Cloudsmith. Any chance you can update your video - or maybe just list the new commands in the info ? Thanks a bunch.
Excellent video - many thanks! I'm very much one of the 'masses' here and your step-by-step approach is really helpful. I've ordered a HA yellow box and while I wait for it I've put HA on my windows laptop (one of your earlier videos - thanks again!) running in the Oracle VM. Now I want to experiment trying it on a 12-year-old pc (was win 7) that I was about to bin. You say 'any x86' machine but does it have to be 64-bit? I'll check later and if it looks do-able, will use your method. I can see (already) the advantage of running HA on a dedicated machine running quietly in a dark room (!) so until I get my yellow this old pc will be an interesting project. Thanks again - you put in the work so the rest of us don't have to. Cheers, Andy (Oxford UK)
Honestly, I'm not sure, but I think it does need to be 64-bit. I guess I didn't really think too much about that since 64-bit hardware has been the standard now since I don't even know when. Let me know if you're able to get it going, and thanks for watching!
Thanks, you saved my day! BalenaEtcher Appimage did not work from USB dongle, your curl command helped. Small correction: there is an unnecessary space in the link.
i have huge problems installing etcher on Ubuntu -> payment required it says after hitting download. i somehow downloaded it and run it, but the flashing is being cancelled because of corrupted file. not so easy everytime you touch anything with linux 😅
Excellent video - thank you so much for taking the time. Also, the great comments below helped to fix some of my issues as I went through the process. HA is running on my NUC - any idea why I can't access it from a browser?
This is a really well explained 'how to' viedo except I have been having issues with using the 'curl...cloudsmith...' command in ubuntu. I've done some googling and it seems this is no longer a repository for the balena etcher installer. I'm seriously stuck now and looking for answers! I'd think this video either needs to be amended or taken down as the information is no longer accurate
I'm also stuck on the command to install Balena Etcher. I get an error "Payment required" and then the PC fails to download or find Etcher. Frustrating that this is so difficult, even for those of us with a basic familiarity with Linux.
Yeah, sorry about that guys. Unfortunately, I can't control what balena does. :( However, if you're still having trouble, I did update the description with a new set of commands that should work for you now. Thanks for watching, and I hope you get/got it working!
I am going to follow these instructions on a mini pc. I am not really a Linux person either, but HA on a VM is driving me crazy because of Windows Updates that I cannot turn off--only put off for 5 weeks. Thank you
Unfortunately, these instructions won't work for you if you try to follow them word for word. Balena had a falling out with cloudsmith, so the binaries are no longer hosted there. You can, however, follow the rest of the video, and then once you get booted into the linux USB stick, launch firefox and download balena from there and get it going that way. This video is, already (unfortunately), on my list of ones that need to be updated. :(
Perhaps a stupid question, but which etcher you download from their site (installer, portable, legaat etc) and how do you install the file on the Nuc after download it? I have alle the files in the download library but are unable to run or install then 😂
So firstly I need to install ubuntu.. very nice. I'm starting to think that HA developers not very clever... Actually it can not be really not an OS but just application.... In anyway - thank you very much. Will try this approach to install HA on my N100 mini pc.
I made an update to this video. Check the description for a link, I found a much easier way to do it using an M.2 external enclosure for like $20 on Amazon.
I used your guide and got right up to the point when I tried to enter the command to download balena I get errors telling me about payment required .. I’m not to “up” on these things but I’m ok following your guide but if I hit a stumbling block I’m screwed.. any help gratefully received.. thank you EDIT: after reading newer comments on here it appears the files are no longer hosted on cloudsmith.. hopefully we’ll soon have a resolution ..
You should be able to download etcher from their website if you use the browser from within Ubuntu. I had some struggles with it, and never could sort out why. It worked, but not *every* time. Maybe you need to download the HA file first? Not sure.
Hi Jeff, thank you for this !! I have a new problem discovered so that your script does't work anymore. For Ubuntu 22.04 LTS the lib libfuse2 package is not included in this version. The commands "sudo add-apt-repository universe " and then "sudo apt install libfuse2" won't give a solution because the lib package can't be found. Can you please support ? Many thanks, Luc
Hi Jeff, thanks for this great tutorial! its been a great help to install the HA on NUC. just a small question, how do i format the flash drive used for the instalation? i've tried to connect it to a pc and just format it but its "protected" and failed to format. TIA
Glad to see that so many people had success with your new method. Unfortunately I was not so lucky. During the partition moving step, the first partition was removed sucessfully, but the second one gave an error and no further progress was possible. Now the PC will not even boot. Since the system did not come with an OS disc, I am trying to find a way to revive it and would appreciate any suggestions.
I made an update video after this one that has an even easier way of doing it. Honestly, it's the video I should have made first, instead of this one, but c'est la vie. It does involve a part from Amazon that's like $20, but it's pretty much foolproof. Check it out. Thanks for watching, hopefully you get it sorted with the other method!
FYI I cant get the full URL in your description. TH-cam will obfuscate it if you 'Copy Link address". And clicking on it on pc will immediately initiate download. Im stuck here
Thanks for this. This helps me to understand what they are doing. I am now wondering if I can use a windows PE disk instead of a live Linux disk to do the same thing. I'm going to try it soon.
You might be able to, but I couldn't find any articles or documentation on how. This video already has problems since balena changed where they are hosting their programs. They got in a fight with their cloud hosting provider... If you use this method, just download balena via a browser and you'll be good. I'm going to make an updated video where I do it by removing the ssd and flash it using a usb caddy. I didn't want to have to do that, but it's only like $10 on Amazon, so I figure if anyone wants to do it, it's not a super expensive thing to have to order...
Make sure to read the updates in the description! Also, if you still have difficulties with this, I'll be releasing another video in a few days with an alternative method for getting Home Assistant onto a NUC, so don't despair, there's another way! (and honestly, it might be even easier - but it does require you to use a screwdriver....)
Thank you, this worked great! oops, spoke too soon. after I realized I had a network issue, I thought this was working great. But I ran into a problem, it says inrelease 402 payment required. it will not install balena
Hi! Thanks so much for this. Unfortunately the instructions in the video description area appear to be incomplete. When I click the 3 dots and type balena nothing appears. It's hard to see because of the video quality but it appears that you issue an install type command for etcher but this in not in the instructions. I am new to linux so it is entirely possible I'm doing something wrong. Help! :)
@@agenovese820 yup i gave up as this procedure was not working for me. I ended up googling and failed on another video as well. I found the HA page that walks you through what to do and that worked for me. Note: I flashed a USB stick rather than an SSD.
@rogerdabeast I wound up flashing the ssd, which was a pain figuring out how to reformat the drive since this video tells you to delete it all, thanks. You should really take this video down now, it serves no purpose anymore other than causing people issues.
@agenovese820 You should really check the dates on technical videos. Thanks for watching though, and hopefully you enjoy some of my newer content, which will be far more up to date with current versions and methods.
This may be a stupid question but I have a X64 system I was hoping to flash with HAOS, would these procedures still work or would it have to be a X86 system?
@Fast How To I've successfully installed HAOS, but when I go to the IP address it gives me in a browser on my other computer (all connected to the same network via ethernet) it fails to connect. Looked in my router setting under devices connected and it's there in the list.
A step not mentioned here, that I had to do on my M72e, is to run terminal on the USB and add efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 1 --label "HAOS" \ --loader '\EFI\BOOT\bootx64.efi' to make the device bootable. You need to replace 'sda' with 'nvme' if on an nvme drive.
I followed all the steps for your video and everything worked up intel it came to the Web URL for HAOS image in etcher, so is it video completely outdated now? and the web URL dose not work at all? I copied your notes exactly and even removed the extra space as stated in your notes and when it tries to flash it says "something went wrong. if it is a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupted. the elevated process died unexpectedly" do you have a updated Web URL for HAOS image? or do I have to ignore everything I did and take out the ssd?
Excellent video - thanks. I am attempting to turn a pre-loved Optiplex 790 into my first HAOS machine. I've tried a few times, but after Etcher verifies the write of the .iso to the USB drive, it reports that it has failed. Any ideas what might have gone wrong? I am running Etcher as Administrator in Win10 Pro.
My first guess would be either a bad usb stick or a bad usb port. I would also download a fresh copy of the iso, there's always a chance it got corrupted during download? Thanks for watching!!
@@fasthowto Thanks for getting back to me... tomorrow is another day! I have tried two different drives (both almost double the size of the .iso) each twice now. Both were drives that I had to wipe, so maybe I'll buy a new one to try. The downloaded iso *looks* OK, but I will download again just to be sure. I was expecting the old Dell itself to be the stumbling-block ('course it still might be!)! Now I'll try to wipe/format the USB drives for 'regular' use again. Cheers!
@@fasthowto Well, I don't know why, but no USB drive based installs seemed to work. The drives themselves seem OK after formatting. I ended up removing the HSS and using Etcher to flash it directly - worked a charm! I managed to install my new Sonoff Zigbee dongle and had several great days setting up automations for all my devices (WiFi and Zigbee). I even managed to link my existing cloud-based Tuya hub-connected items through a Tuya IOT account within HA so that I could play around with automating those devices without dismantling the existing setup... SUCCESS!! I was just contemplating 'cutting the cord' of my current setup by removing my Tuya Hub and re-associating everything to HA and disaster struck - I am getting the "[WARN] Home Assistant CLI not starting! Jump into emergency console..." and nothing I can do seems to get me any further. The Dell is being given an IP address and I can ping the machine, but nothing seems to bring back HAOS. I was just starting to fall for HA (despite the steep learning curve) but I really wanted it to be something that I could rely on to run without constant fixing and it seems to be dead at the moment.
@@lordweevil man.. I was really enjoying your story, and getting so excited and happy for you, and then.... Unfortunately, I've never dealt with that error before. :( As for falling for HA, don't give up. I know it seems a mess right now, but it could be related to the issues you had with the installation. Perhaps there was something wrong with something else in that system. Hard to say, but these are the perils of using old equipment, I guess. Everything dies eventually. There are a lot of folks out there that have installed HA onto thin clients they got from ebay for $50, and lots of guys using Intel nucs, as I did in the video. Even more run on raspberry pis, or as vms. It really is a great solution to home automation. I spent ALL day yesterday building & filming some really cool stuff, all based around temperature monitoring & notifications. That video should be out here in the coming days. Give it a watch, and see if it's stuff you would want to do, and then decide if it's stuff that's possible to do with your current system. Ps - I wasn't kidding in the video about how long it even took me to figure out how to get it onto the nuc. Sometimes, the destination is worth the journey. If you do manage to fix your current difficulty, I'd be really interested to hear what the solution to the problem was.
You're most welcome! Make sure to check out my updated video on how to do this. It's linked in the description and was shown as a card in this video. Thanks for watching!
Great video, I am trying to do this on a Zotac Xbox bi323. I have gotten through flashing the HA image onto the hard disc but when I select the disc , the flash option doesn't become available. Any idea where I made my mistake ?
UEFI is required for HAOS, unfortunately.. I think the only option you'd have is to manually install Ubuntu and then run a core install on top of that? Great question, and thanks for watching!
@@fasthowto Core install? What do you mean by that? Do you mean installing Home Assistant through terminal within running Ubuntu on my PC? Do you have any links or something that i can read what core installation is?
Thanks for the precise instructions! Just as an aside - the word UBuntu is pronounced as ooo-boon-tooo whereas there is another word spelled Bantu which is pronounced the way people mispronounce Ubuntu!
Well, darn. Thank you so much for the correction. I cannot believe I've been saying that incorrectly my entire life. And that now I've made a video for everyone to watch/hear me do it. LOL :(
I followed the whole process step by step, thank you... HA is now running on a NUC but when I try to access it via the IP address on my MacBook I just get connection refused... - running a UDM Pro with NUC plugged into ethernet. Any ideas?
I tried to do this on an old laptop but it doesn't seem to work for me. It doesn't let me install hacs and I can't log in to my home assistant cloud. With vm there is no problem. Could it be the laptop?
To be honest, I never tried. I have no use for home assistant to do anything with micla audio. My home assistant server lives in a rack in the basement.
Thanks for trying but it's very difficult to follow these instructions on a mini PC with just 2 USB ports, because it seems you need both a keyboard and a mouse to navigate; if you remove the flash drive after booting from it, the computer will hang (well, it did for me) at some point in the process. I'm also getting errors during installation of Balena Etcher even after following your commands exactly.
Thanks for very useful video. I was trying to follow your instructions, all fine until I bumped in to the below issue: Balena Etcher running on ubuntu is not flashing HAOS in my M.2 drive with following information:- " something went wrong. if it is a compressed image please check that the archive is not corrupted" Could you help me to to get through this obstacle.
I ran into the same thing one time when I was trying to sort this all out. I think maybe it was an issue with the download? Reboot the whole thing & try it again so it pulls down a new download of haos. Also make sure you have deleted the partitions in the m.2 drive. Let me know if you get it going!
nice video and it feels almost like heaven send you^^ you got my abo :) i bought the same nuc as you and i am trying to install proxmox on it for a month now… i‘ve also tried to install debian and ubuntu without success. after mentest86 i know the ram is okay, i updated the bios of the nuc to the newest version, i wanted to update the firmware of my nvme ssd too, but there is no update for it. after i purchased one of this nvme to usb adapters (were the debian/ubuntu installed on the internal nvme slot booted without issues), i knew the ssd is not the problem. so i contacted the intel customer support one week ago, but they still ask me many questions, without giving me a solution to solve this… i still dont understand why this issue appears. does the nuc have problems with booting from more then 1 partition? why did you use etcher on ubuntu, would it not work with etcher on mac or windows? is there a way to install proxmox with your or other methods? on the proxmox website there is only a iso installer to download and not a bootable image data file, so i could not use your method, am i right?
Sorry, I'm not familiar with proxmox... Thank you for watching, I hope you were able to find something useful in this video and get your problem sorted!!
@@fasthowto well this issue has nothing to do with proxmox, cause debian and ubuntu does also not boot from the internal nvme slot. proxmox is debian based as ubuntu, so i am pretty sure if one of this distros would work the other ones would work as well. do you know a method to get debian or ubuntu to work on this cursed intel pc? even if not, it would be nice if you answer my other questions: does the nuc have problems with booting from more then 1 partition? how many partitions does home assistant have on your install method and how many does it have by default? why did you use etcher on ubuntu, would it not work with etcher on mac or windows?
Great video! many thanks! I got the install to work and the HAOS is up and running. I can ping it. But in no way can i connect to it using the ip:8123 or homeassistant.local:8123. Don't seem to have a block in my firewall either. What could be wrong? ip:4357 works fine.
There have been SEVERAL posts about this issue on the forums. No one has been able to pinpoint the source of the problem, but reinstalling has fixed it in every case I've read so far.
I wish this worked. Running Ubuntu per the instructions on a Beelink S12, but I’m stuck at the terminal with errors during install. Have tried the latest files as well as the links in the videos. Issues with dependencies: gconf-service, g-conf2, libgconf-2-4, etc.
@@fasthowto thanks. I didn’t see that; I went to the section that was referenced in the video. All good. I found another video. It’s WAY easier to just install directly onto the drive after downloading from image from the HA website. Install, reboot, done. No fussing with command line.
Trying to install this on asus eeepc 1000h (32bit). Had to install balena manually thru a .AppImage file because I couldn't find any 32bit .deb installation file to swap into the given wget instruction. Anyway, I flashed HASO onto my main partition and after shutdown what I get is just a white blinking cursor on a black screen. I'm stuck there. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks
@@fasthowto 😅 I know, I'm a little bit of a recycling addicted. Having tech junks at home always makes me think of ways to give them a second life. A home assistant hub could have been of some use. Hence the testing on a 32 bit system. Thanks anyway.
I would like to thank you for making these videos. I installed Home Assistant on a NUC by flashing it to a SSD drive. It loaded up great . The only problem now is I can not access it. The Local :8123 does not work. I am using Goole Mesh routers I do not know how to log in using ip address. Do not know how to find ip address on the network. If you can find the time, please help.
You'll need to log into your router and look for the IP address in the DHCP server. Alternatively, you can download an IP scanner like AngryIP or something similar and scan your network looking for it. Thanks for watching!
hi, I did everything as in the video, but Home assistant does not boot and only say "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Inser Boot Media in selected boot device and pres a key" do you have any ideas?
There are several things that could be, but the two most likely are either you missed a step in the BIOS, or the hard drive was not properly partitioned so the OS is not found. Thanks for watching!
Great project. Unfortunately I am unable to follow because the video text is un-readable. Is it possible for you to add written instructions. That'll help a lot. TIA.
@@fasthowto i did but my issue was known disks. i had to pause and look at the command to find gnome-disks. who comes up with this cmd line stuff any way im almost done with my install dell 5070. thanks for your help this was the best video on installation.
Lol yeah, command line stuff is for the birds, I know... And I hear you about monitors and drinking. The monitor I do most of my work on is a 4k 55" TV I got from Walmart a few years back. Works awesome! Unless I'm a little deep into the whiskey, and then a monitor the size of a movie screen can't save me. 😂😂😂 Glad you were able to get it sorted, and thanks for watching!!
@@fasthowto this makes sense. at least for all mac and laptop users. i have now simply installed the hard drive temporarily in my pc. so it was possible to flash the haos directly to the ssd from windows.
@@LucaBucher1 ah, gotcha. That's definitely an easier way - if you have the knowledge and tools to remove the drive, install it into another system, and then correctly identify it so as not to accidentally format/erase/wipe out a data disk. I'm really trying to make these videos as foolproof as possible to make the audience ad wide as possible, but maybe I should re-think that. It would allow me to get a bit more in the weeds in certain topics, anyway... Food for thought, I guess. Enjoy home assistant!
Soooooo I don't know what to do. I am a basic person with no coding/ tech knowledge. I was following along happy as a clam with myself for figuring this out so easily. But now I'm stuck in the coding bit. Apparently Ubuntu is no longer using cloud Smith. They're not paying them. So I'm getting a failed to fetch error code with 402 payment required notice. What do i do now.....
Apparently this is the issue: Hello, We’re moving out of Cloudsmith as continuing to host the package there would be too costly for us. We’re very thankful for the service and help CloudSmith provided, and would recommend their product for smaller open-source apps and private packages anytime! At the moment we don’t have the bandwidth (pun intended) to set up an alternative repository but might be moving to self-hosted (probably CloudFlare) in the upcoming weeks. So sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. Note that you can always get a .deb and .rpm package in the release section of the GitHub repository. I understand the words but I have no clue how to do the things. Lol any advice would be appreciated.
Yeah.... Apparently Balena had some issues with the price of Cloudsmith hosting. I think you can download etcher directly from Balena's website in the web browser in Ubuntu, and run it that way. I had some struggles with that, but it did work sometimes (I tried multiple times when making the video, and the command-line method was more reliable.. YMMV)
nevermind, i just searched for disks and i past that step. I'm trying to follow your procedure and install HA on zimaboard. hopefully everything goes well, I'll keep you posted and thank you for this video.
i couldn't install balena etcher, i got the following error unable to locate package balena-etcher-electron so i downloaded balena etcher from the broswer , couldn't run the file after some research i founs that i have to change the permission for the etcher image file then i was able to run etcher the url method didn't work so i downloaded HA and flashed from file and now it's flashing just wanted you a feed back on how things will go on zimaboard
Not sure if you solved this yet, but I made an updated video that's much easier to get haos installed. Hopefully you found it, and/or got it figured out!
I followed the instructions above and got all the way to entering the URL in Etcher (i downloaded it instead) and it gets to 36% flashing HAOS on the SSD and then it hangs up up and then shuts down etcher. Is anyone else having this issue? I'm guessing that I'm missing something that is very obvious. BTW, I downloaded etcher into the running (in-memory Ubuntu). Thanks.
Read the comments on here, it's been discussed. But - stay tuned for tomorrow's 5 minute fRYEday video. I found a MUCH easier and more reliable way of doing it. Thanks for watching!
Why did ya not flash HA directly to the Harddisk? Buy an 5$ Dollar usb to Sata Adapter and flash HA directly with Balea edger to the harddisk of the nuc
Sounds like you didn't read the description, or see the card with the link to the updated video, and it DEFINITELY sounds like you haven't watched the follow-up video either. Lol BTW - a SATA adapter is $12, not $5, and an NVMe one is $20. Thanka for watching!
Does anyone know why i would be getting this error on the last line? everything up to this point worked fine and i copy pasted exactly the instruction E: Unable to locate package balena-etcher-electron-y
Hey, sorry man!! I updated the commands in the description due to balena'a fight with their cloud hosting provider. If you haven't gotten it working yet, give it a go now with the updated instructions. Also, I plan to shoot yet another follow-up video to this where I install directly to the ssd - from windows - using a cheap adapter from Amazon. I've already got a few videos queued up in front of that one, so probably 3-4 weeks before it gets published. Thanks for watching, and my apologies on the delayed response. I hope you already got it working!!
I have updated the description with new commands to address the previous comments below about the installation not working. Hopefully this addresses the issues some viewers had due to Balena getting in a fight with their previous cloud hosting provider. Enjoy!!
This video was great inspiration. Something that happened to me is that the etcher kept crashing at 31% when running Ubuntu in try mode (limited persistence). After many hours of trying I figured I could use a second thumb drive and fully install Linux there from the first thumb drive, then boot with a fully installed Linux and run the etcher from there to install hassio on the SSD. That finally worked!
Thanks for the concise instructions.
For those of you with the issue: Balena Etcher error when installing - “something went wrong”
Put the github link into the browser and download the file locally, then point etcher to the downloaded file.
you are the best!!!!
You absolutely ROCK. Thank you for this! HAOS is loading now on my Beelink, I tried about 15 different ways to do this and yours is the only one that works well!
My pleasure, glad to hear it helped you. Thanks for watching!
Works like a charm. I have had no issues with my HA installation since i moved from a RP4 to the NUC. Thanks for the guide.
Thank you for the kind words, and thanks for watching!
Nice Video. I tried another Smart home guy's video where he asked to use 2 USB sticks. Quite similar process, however, I ended up copying the Home Assistant image directly from Ubuntu OS by downloading. Your method was very practical and would have saved tone of my time trying to fire commands in Terminal.
Anyways, thanks for the video. Will keep it for future. !!!
Yeah, I saw that same video. Tried it and it didn't work. Lol was part of my research for this one.
Unfortunately, balena got mad at cloudsmith, and so my video doesn't work either. You have to download etcher in a browser and run it since the command line way leverages cloudsmith. But such is the way of IT.. Changes faster than anyone can keep up with! Thanks for watching!
Thank you SOOOOOO much. I have been so frustrated over the last couple of days trying to get HAOS installed on my NUC and nothing worked. Finally I followed your video and it worked in a matter of minutes. There were a couple of small differences in your installation method that were different than other videos I watched an it made all the difference.
I feel your pain brother!! I sat there for nearly an entire day and was like "why is this so hard? I'm a smart guy... All these instructions I've found so far are terrible, none of them work!" I'm so happy to hear you found the video, and that it worked for you. Thank you for the kind words, they really make this all worthwhile!! Thanks for watching!
@@fasthowto can’t wait to watch your future videos!
Hi Jeff, as always, a great video. Roughly following your steps, I got this to work on an old Lenovo mini PC. I’m not sure it was worth all I had to kill. You might want to take some of my issues under consideration for your updated video.
Erasing the disk. This Lenovo has 256 GB of M.2 memory. I know this is overkill for Home Assistant, but this is what I had. When partitioning the drive, it was going to take over 3 hours to erase the SSD. I stopped this step and started over. It wasn’t necessary.
I wish I could say that I used to use Linux and then my daddy got a job. The truth is that I have been a computer hobbyist for 40 years and an IT professional for much of that. As with you, I don’t know Linux.
I wish I had read the comments before going into the bogs. As you replied, the command line prompts you provided will not get Etcher installed. Of course, it turned out to be very simple using Firefox.
I could not get Etcher to write from the URL. Yes, I removed the extra space. I downloaded the image with the same URL and made progress. The first time I tried writing to the SSD, the entire PC froze at 36% and never recovered.
I started over and the PC froze again at 36%. Your youtube video was playing and I heard you repeating a one second snip for 5 minutes. Then the PC moved on and finished writing the image quickly. After that, everything worked as expected.
I hope there is something in here that helps when you update the video. Thanks for your great work.
Hey Jeff. Thank you, thank you, thank you ... for this video. It's been a lifesaver to me. I've spend many hours, following the official guides (as you also refer to), with no other result than frustrations and more grey hairs. But now, at last, I've god a working HA-installation, thanks to you. When my blood pressure reaches normal levels again, I'll check your other videos. They will undoubtedly contain more "gold-nuggets" for a new-comer within HA as I. Have a nice day and keep up the good work!
Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm really glad to hear that you were able to get it working. It's really a complex process, even with this video (see other comments...) I hope you enjoy the rest of the content, and if you've got any questions or ideas, please feel free to let me know. Thank you for watching, and enjoy your new home assistant server!
WOW, thank you. Thank you and thank you. Did I say, thank you!!! DAMN DUDE. I was having issues trying to get Etcher to work in Ubuntu and could not get it to work. Your video and description just made it easy and flawless. Home Assistant is now installed and working like a charm. Now, it is time to learn Home Assistant. Once again, thank you. I just subscribed.
Awesome! Comments like this really make my day, man. It's so rewarding knowing that people were able to solve their problems and move forward by watching my videos. Thank you for taking the time to comment, and thank you for watching!
Brilliant, thanks very much. Used these steps for my HP T530. Worked a treat! Found a comment somewhere about copy/paste and used the Ubuntoo Firefox browser to get back to this video to grab to the lines to enter - much easier than typing!
Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad to hear this worked for you! That's an awesome idea about the browser, great work!! If I do an update to this video at some point I'll have to be sure to include that.
Thanks for watching!!!
Thanks this was a life saver, I spent several hours trying to flash HAOS with Balena Etcher in Windows without success, your steps worked like a dream
Sweet! Glad you were able to get it working using this video, that makes me so happy to hear. Thanks for watching!!
Saved my sanity! I was able to flash Home Assistant to an HP T520 thin client by following these instructions with very little trouble. There is a space in front of 'github' in both of the above links that must be removed for those to work and Etcher refused to flash from a URL. Downloading the file and flashing from file worked flawlessly. I am now a subscriber and will be using your videos to help me with this! Thank you!
The space is explained in the description. ;) glad you were able to get it working and that you found the video helpful. Thank you for watching and subscribing!
This was excellent and just what i was looking for. Am migrating HA from a pi 4 to a Beelink.
Awesome! I'm so glad to hear this video was helpful. I know I say this constantly, but I really do love hearing from viewers, and it makes me smile to know that I was successful in making the complicated stuff easier to understand and helping people solve their problems. Thank you so much for the kind words, and thank you for watching!!! :)
I have been playing around with an old Lenovo mini PC with a bunch of Linux distros, but haven't had much luck. Will give your steps a try. By the way, I appreciate the effort you put into making the presentation useful, to the point, and fun.
Thank you for the kind words, and thanks for watching!
I just bought the same NUC and installed home assistant exactly as you explained in the video. Thanks dude! I have been trying to run HA on a Raspberry Pi 3 with 1GB of ram, and as I've built out my system more, it crashes frequently due to low memory. Hoping to start over with the NUC as the main brain for my setup. Thanks again.
Awesome! Glad to hear everything is going well for you. That's exactly what happened to me, too - started with an RPI, fell down the rabbit hole and overwhelmed it. "We need more power, Scotty!" 😂
Thanks for watching, and hopefully you find some of my other content useful as well!
Watched the video a couple more times and finally got it to work. Thanks. The video vocal is a little too fast for me so I had to rewind and listen again several times. Also there are two more problems that took me a while to figure out. Maybe just me but hope this can help others too. (1) After starting the Gnome-disks app. I typed those commands on the same terminal window, not realizing that it is now a window for running Gnome-disks app, no longer a terminal window for commands. I had to start another terminal window to type those commands. A little frustrating but learned something (2) It was mentioned that the HA image URL and a blank space. I didn't understand it from the video so the download did not work. Again took me a while to figure it out. I think a note next to the URL can help.
Overall, it didn't go as smoothly as I hope but still a great video instruction. Thanks.
Once you close gnome-disks, you can use the terminal window again. Glad you were able to get it to work! As for video speed, you can adjust that on your computer. That's a standard feature of TH-cam. :) Thanks for coming back and commenting with your update, I've literally been watching the comments since your last one to see if you were able to get it all sorted. I've very happy that you were able to get things all set. Thanks for watching, and enjoy your new HA server!
Great video! I prefer this one over the new one as it saved me the trouble of taking the NUC apart and faffing around with connectors. The only thing I'd add is that you could advise the user to open Firefox on the Ubuntu instance and navigate to this video so they can easily copy and paste in the commands. As a fat fingered clumsy typer this is what I did as I'm notorious at mistyping stuff yet oddly fastidious about accuracy.
Thank you! Yes, my original intention was only this video, but with how quickly software changed, and there were issues with Etcher and their cloud hosting provider for a while.. The instructions in this video sometimes work, and sometimes don't. I'm glad that it worked for you!
That's a great idea about copy/paste the commands. I should have thought of that!! I'll add it to the video description. :)
Thanks again for the superthanks, and thanks for watching!
What a man!! i spent 3 hours last night banging my head against a wall. then found your video and i am up and running. the command line for installing etcher didnt work for me, not sure what i did wrong, but i did it manually without issue. The big bit missing from the home assistant guides was the deletion of the partition.
subscribed, cant wait to join you on the journey
Awesome, glad to hear it! I'm honestly not even sure if the way I showed is the "right" or "best" way (short of removing the ssd and using an external enclosure) - all I know is that it finally worked, and I was able to repeat it, so... As long as it works, I'm happy. Lol if this is your first go 'round, check out my video on "7 things to do after install", and the 3 videos on automations. I find myself constantly reading and watching videos about automations. Even if I don't do exactly what they did in the video, often times it will spark some idea for something else I can do. Thanks for watching, and thank you for the sub!
Thank you! This worked perfectly, and I appreciate the clear and straightforward step-by-step approach.
You are most welcome! Thank you for the kind words, I'm glad you were able to get it working. Thanks for watching!!
Nice to know someone with your experience still has "want to throw the keyboard at the monitor days" as well :)) thanks for absorbing the frustration for us
I have those days a lot more often than I'd like to admit. Lol thanks for watching!
The first command to open the window to select and delete the disks partition is gnome-disks it took me a while to figured that out since I could not clearly understand what you said.
It's also listed in the video description.. Thanks for watching!
You Sir are a God. I have had no end of problems trying to do this via other guides. This just works thank to so much :-)
Well I don't know about all that, but thank you for the kind words, and thanks for watching!!
Lovely guide, easy to follow! Worked on the first try! Thanks!!
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
WOW, thank you so much, this worked a treat. Really appreciate you putting in the time for this, subscribed and liked 🙂
Hi Jeff, Great video. Managed to get past the missing stuff and HA is installed. Thanks from Oz.
Awesome, glad to hear it! Thanks for watching!
Just fantastic! Got it running in a instant after watching this video. Thank you so much!
Well congrats on reaching 1K Subs.
Thank you!! I am so grateful for each and every person that watches, comments, likes, subscribes, and otherwise interacts with the channel. All of you have provided great motivation to continue making more content for you guys. I hope you enjoy watching my content as much as I enjoy creating it. :)
The way I was able to load HAOS was to take the drive out connect it via a USB and install HAOS. Leaving out the step of installing Linux
@@Donhanichak yep! Several others have remarked similarly. That's a great way to go if you have to knowhow to remove & reinstall the drive. My goal with this was to keep it software-only since that's a bit more of an approachable method for the lesser-technical people who may still want to get into home assistant. :)
When I installed Home Assistant on my NUC I just used windows but it requires a USB adapter for an nVme drive, or SATA drive depending on what type of boot drive your NUC has. Flashed with Etcher, put the drive into my NUC and it booted right into Home Assistant.
Now, this method obviously requires a second computer (not the NUC) and USB adapter but it works, or at least it did about 2 years ago when I went through this process. You do have to open the NUC, remove the drive and put it back in after flashing so if you're not comfortable with this then this method is better.
Also, just take a full backup from your existing Home Assistant install from say, a raspberry pi and do a full restore to the NUC. This may or may not work for the USB ZigBee adapter as I did not have one on my raspberry pi when I went through this process but everything else was restored and was working with zero issues.
If you use ZHA you can do a backup of your ZigBee devices then restore them to your USB adapter after installing 8t on your NUC. That's what I did when I moved from a deconz USB ZigBee adapter to a Home Assistant SkyConnect. There is a way to do it with Zigbee2MQTT also but I can't remember the method off the top of my head.
I highly recommend auto backup and snapshot cleanup from HACs, especially if you are running Home Assistant on an SD card on a raspberry pi. Auto backup takes full or partial backups at specified times you define like every 12 hours and snapshot cleanup will let you specify the number of backups to keep like 10 so you don't fill your drive with backup files. Obviously you can keep more but that depends on the size of the drive in your NUC.
SD cards can easily go bad and the number one reason is not using a proper power supply as the pi might boot but if you are underpowering it it will ruin your SD card very quickly. I think I went through maybe 5 SD cards before learning this. Lastly, always copy your backups to another drive, a USB drive or over the network because those backups are useless if you only store them on the Home assistant drive and that drive goes bad and you are unable to restore any data from it those backups are useless.
All great points, several of which have been covered in other videos. For a much easier backup solution, check out my video. Automatic cloud storage, so you don't have to worry about copying anything.
Thanks for watching! :)
Just a regular guy and Definitely a love / hate relationship with HA. I have it running right now on old Optiplex in a Virtual box. While that is working it is a bit finicky with HA upgrades and automatons not working after. Going to try using this FHT using a Beelink Mini and will let you know how it goes. Thanks for the video
My pleasure! Should work fine. My understanding of the beelink stuff is it's same/same as a NUC, just a different brand name. Probably the same parts inside. Lol
Let me know how it works out for you, and thanks for watching!
@@fasthowto your instructions worked great, Got HA loaded. Now have decide to restore the backup I have or start again form scratch. Thinking I will try restore first since I can always start from scratch thanks again 👏🎆
@@fasthowto I got the preparing HA login scree. n but then it just stopped there. I rebooted and am not getting IP using Ethernet or the wireless connections. I am going to use nmcli and manually connect to the wifi or try that. Told you love hate relationship. Same thing with the J.O.B. in software but at least I am getting paid for that frustration 🤣
@@OBD01 oh, man.. Lol you do have a dhcp server on your network, right? Anything on the forums? Maybe the beelink has a different NIC in it that HAOS doesn't have drivers for?
@@fasthowto I do have a dhcp server, not sure why it is not pulling an IP. Anyway setting the wifi manually at least got me online. Once I finish configuring I will see if I can figure out where the issue is with the auto dhcp stuff.
Hi and thanks for the video.
I was almost there... LOL (Newbie)
I watched and tried and watched and tried until I figured out that Etcher is no longer working with Cloudsmith.
Any chance you can update your video - or maybe just list the new commands in the info ?
Thanks a bunch.
Did you figure out a work around because I am stuck too staring at a screen I have no idea what to do next 😅
Excellent video - many thanks! I'm very much one of the 'masses' here and your step-by-step approach is really helpful.
I've ordered a HA yellow box and while I wait for it I've put HA on my windows laptop (one of your earlier videos - thanks again!) running in the Oracle VM. Now I want to experiment trying it on a 12-year-old pc (was win 7) that I was about to bin. You say 'any x86' machine but does it have to be 64-bit? I'll check later and if it looks do-able, will use your method.
I can see (already) the advantage of running HA on a dedicated machine running quietly in a dark room (!) so until I get my yellow this old pc will be an interesting project. Thanks again - you put in the work so the rest of us don't have to.
Cheers, Andy (Oxford UK)
Honestly, I'm not sure, but I think it does need to be 64-bit. I guess I didn't really think too much about that since 64-bit hardware has been the standard now since I don't even know when. Let me know if you're able to get it going, and thanks for watching!
Thanks, you saved my day! BalenaEtcher Appimage did not work from USB dongle, your curl command helped. Small correction: there is an unnecessary space in the link.
No correction necessary, the space is explained in the docs. ;) glad it worked for you, and thanks for watching!
@@fasthowto Ah yes, sorry, my bad
@@VitaliaKhokhlova No problem. TH-cam is great for lots of things, but providing URLs isn't one of them. :)
i have huge problems installing etcher on Ubuntu -> payment required it says after hitting download. i somehow downloaded it and run it, but the flashing is being cancelled because of corrupted file. not so easy everytime you touch anything with linux 😅
Eu baixei o arquivo do H.A manualmente e deu pra passar por este erro
Excellent video - thank you so much for taking the time. Also, the great comments below helped to fix some of my issues as I went through the process. HA is running on my NUC - any idea why I can't access it from a browser?
Are you using http or https? Should be http. New install has no certs on it. Also, don't forget the :8123!
My NUC with i5 4th gen arrives today , hope this method works!
You need to dowoad etcher via a browser, they got in a fight with the cloud provider. Read through the comments on here.
This is a really well explained 'how to' viedo except I have been having issues with using the 'curl...cloudsmith...' command in ubuntu. I've done some googling and it seems this is no longer a repository for the balena etcher installer. I'm seriously stuck now and looking for answers! I'd think this video either needs to be amended or taken down as the information is no longer accurate
I'm also stuck on the command to install Balena Etcher. I get an error "Payment required" and then the PC fails to download or find Etcher. Frustrating that this is so difficult, even for those of us with a basic familiarity with Linux.
cd Downloads
sudo apt install ./
Yeah, sorry about that guys. Unfortunately, I can't control what balena does. :(
However, if you're still having trouble, I did update the description with a new set of commands that should work for you now.
Thanks for watching, and I hope you get/got it working!
I am going to follow these instructions on a mini pc. I am not really a Linux person either, but HA on a VM is driving me crazy because of Windows Updates that I cannot turn off--only put off for 5 weeks. Thank you
Unfortunately, these instructions won't work for you if you try to follow them word for word. Balena had a falling out with cloudsmith, so the binaries are no longer hosted there. You can, however, follow the rest of the video, and then once you get booted into the linux USB stick, launch firefox and download balena from there and get it going that way. This video is, already (unfortunately), on my list of ones that need to be updated. :(
@@fasthowto Thanks for the heads up.
Perhaps a stupid question, but which etcher you download from their site (installer, portable, legaat etc) and how do you install the file on the Nuc after download it? I have alle the files in the download library but are unable to run or install then 😂
So firstly I need to install ubuntu.. very nice. I'm starting to think that HA developers not very clever... Actually it can not be really not an OS but just application.... In anyway - thank you very much. Will try this approach to install HA on my N100 mini pc.
I made an update to this video. Check the description for a link, I found a much easier way to do it using an M.2 external enclosure for like $20 on Amazon.
I used your guide and got right up to the point when I tried to enter the command to download balena I get errors telling me about payment required ..
I’m not to “up” on these things but I’m ok following your guide but if I hit a stumbling block I’m screwed.. any help gratefully received.. thank you
EDIT: after reading newer comments on here it appears the files are no longer hosted on cloudsmith.. hopefully we’ll soon have a resolution ..
You should be able to download etcher from their website if you use the browser from within Ubuntu. I had some struggles with it, and never could sort out why. It worked, but not *every* time. Maybe you need to download the HA file first? Not sure.
same problem here
Same problem here
Hi Jeff, thank you for this !! I have a new problem discovered so that your script does't work anymore. For Ubuntu 22.04 LTS the lib libfuse2 package is not included in this version. The commands "sudo add-apt-repository universe " and then "sudo apt install libfuse2" won't give a solution because the lib package can't be found. Can you please support ? Many thanks, Luc
Hi Jeff, thanks for this great tutorial! its been a great help to install the HA on NUC.
just a small question, how do i format the flash drive used for the instalation?
i've tried to connect it to a pc and just format it but its "protected" and failed to format.
TIA
You mean after the install, so you can reuse the usb drive? Diskpart. Then delete all the partitions and reformat for windows use.
Glad to see that so many people had success with your new method. Unfortunately I was not so lucky. During the partition moving step, the first partition was removed sucessfully, but the second one gave an error and no further progress was possible. Now the PC will not even boot. Since the system did not come with an OS disc, I am trying to find a way to revive it and would appreciate any suggestions.
I made an update video after this one that has an even easier way of doing it. Honestly, it's the video I should have made first, instead of this one, but c'est la vie. It does involve a part from Amazon that's like $20, but it's pretty much foolproof. Check it out.
Thanks for watching, hopefully you get it sorted with the other method!
FYI I cant get the full URL in your description. TH-cam will obfuscate it if you 'Copy Link address". And clicking on it on pc will immediately initiate download. Im stuck here
Nevermind. I got it from a different video
Fixed. Thank you for bringing that to my attention!
YOU. ARE. THE. MAN!
Thank you so much for the kind words!! Glad it worked for you. 😊
Thanks a million for the video was able to follow through 😇😇
Awesome! Glad it worked for you! Thanks for watching!
Simply.... Thanks!!!🙂
You're most welcome, and thank YOU for watching! :)
Thanks for this. This helps me to understand what they are doing. I am now wondering if I can use a windows PE disk instead of a live Linux disk to do the same thing. I'm going to try it soon.
You might be able to, but I couldn't find any articles or documentation on how. This video already has problems since balena changed where they are hosting their programs. They got in a fight with their cloud hosting provider... If you use this method, just download balena via a browser and you'll be good. I'm going to make an updated video where I do it by removing the ssd and flash it using a usb caddy. I didn't want to have to do that, but it's only like $10 on Amazon, so I figure if anyone wants to do it, it's not a super expensive thing to have to order...
I will try tomorrow when I will receive my NUC 10
Make sure to read the updates in the description! Also, if you still have difficulties with this, I'll be releasing another video in a few days with an alternative method for getting Home Assistant onto a NUC, so don't despair, there's another way! (and honestly, it might be even easier - but it does require you to use a screwdriver....)
(sudo add-apt-repository universe -y) is not the first command i get ( unable to handle repository shortcut Universe-y
Do I right understand that you can change the bootable partition and you will get instaleld linux?
Thank you, this worked great! oops, spoke too soon. after I realized I had a network issue, I thought this was working great. But I ran into a problem, it says inrelease 402 payment required. it will not install balena
I have the same issue !!
@@richardgriffin9067 read the description, he has a blog with some fixes
Legend! Thank you.
You are most welcome, thank you for watching!
Hi! Thanks so much for this. Unfortunately the instructions in the video description area appear to be incomplete. When I click the 3 dots and type balena nothing appears. It's hard to see because of the video quality but it appears that you issue an install type command for etcher but this in not in the instructions. I am new to linux so it is entirely possible I'm doing something wrong. Help! :)
Yes, you've missed something then. All instructions are provided.
Etcher will not install using these instructions something must have changed
@@agenovese820 yup i gave up as this procedure was not working for me. I ended up googling and failed on another video as well. I found the HA page that walks you through what to do and that worked for me. Note: I flashed a USB stick rather than an SSD.
@rogerdabeast I wound up flashing the ssd, which was a pain figuring out how to reformat the drive since this video tells you to delete it all, thanks. You should really take this video down now, it serves no purpose anymore other than causing people issues.
@agenovese820 You should really check the dates on technical videos.
Thanks for watching though, and hopefully you enjoy some of my newer content, which will be far more up to date with current versions and methods.
This may be a stupid question but I have a X64 system I was hoping to flash with HAOS, would these procedures still work or would it have to be a X86 system?
As long as there is an image for the processor type you have, it can be used.
@Fast How To I've successfully installed HAOS, but when I go to the IP address it gives me in a browser on my other computer (all connected to the same network via ethernet) it fails to connect. Looked in my router setting under devices connected and it's there in the list.
@@waynedawson7441 Are you using the correct port number? http or https?
I've tried the one at the top - IPv4 addresses for eno1: (then the IP address). I've tried using https: and http: but to no avail.
But are you using the correct port number? You need the 8123 bit at the end...
A step not mentioned here, that I had to do on my M72e, is to run terminal on the USB and add efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 1 --label "HAOS" \
--loader '\EFI\BOOT\bootx64.efi' to make the device bootable. You need to replace 'sda' with 'nvme' if on an nvme drive.
That wasn't mentioned because it's not necessary... You must have deviated somewhere else.
I followed all the steps for your video and everything worked up intel it came to the Web URL for HAOS image in etcher, so is it video completely outdated now? and the web URL dose not work at all? I copied your notes exactly and even removed the extra space as stated in your notes and when it tries to flash it says "something went wrong. if it is a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupted. the elevated process died unexpectedly"
do you have a updated Web URL for HAOS image?
or do I have to ignore everything I did and take out the ssd?
did you resolve?
Excellent video - thanks. I am attempting to turn a pre-loved Optiplex 790 into my first HAOS machine. I've tried a few times, but after Etcher verifies the write of the .iso to the USB drive, it reports that it has failed. Any ideas what might have gone wrong? I am running Etcher as Administrator in Win10 Pro.
My first guess would be either a bad usb stick or a bad usb port. I would also download a fresh copy of the iso, there's always a chance it got corrupted during download?
Thanks for watching!!
@@fasthowto Thanks for getting back to me... tomorrow is another day! I have tried two different drives (both almost double the size of the .iso) each twice now. Both were drives that I had to wipe, so maybe I'll buy a new one to try. The downloaded iso *looks* OK, but I will download again just to be sure. I was expecting the old Dell itself to be the stumbling-block ('course it still might be!)! Now I'll try to wipe/format the USB drives for 'regular' use again. Cheers!
Let me know how you get on, I'm always interested to hear the eventual solutions!
@@fasthowto Well, I don't know why, but no USB drive based installs seemed to work. The drives themselves seem OK after formatting.
I ended up removing the HSS and using Etcher to flash it directly - worked a charm! I managed to install my new Sonoff Zigbee dongle and had several great days setting up automations for all my devices (WiFi and Zigbee). I even managed to link my existing cloud-based Tuya hub-connected items through a Tuya IOT account within HA so that I could play around with automating those devices without dismantling the existing setup... SUCCESS!!
I was just contemplating 'cutting the cord' of my current setup by removing my Tuya Hub and re-associating everything to HA and disaster struck - I am getting the "[WARN] Home Assistant CLI not starting! Jump into emergency console..." and nothing I can do seems to get me any further. The Dell is being given an IP address and I can ping the machine, but nothing seems to bring back HAOS.
I was just starting to fall for HA (despite the steep learning curve) but I really wanted it to be something that I could rely on to run without constant fixing and it seems to be dead at the moment.
@@lordweevil man.. I was really enjoying your story, and getting so excited and happy for you, and then....
Unfortunately, I've never dealt with that error before. :(
As for falling for HA, don't give up. I know it seems a mess right now, but it could be related to the issues you had with the installation. Perhaps there was something wrong with something else in that system. Hard to say, but these are the perils of using old equipment, I guess. Everything dies eventually. There are a lot of folks out there that have installed HA onto thin clients they got from ebay for $50, and lots of guys using Intel nucs, as I did in the video. Even more run on raspberry pis, or as vms. It really is a great solution to home automation. I spent ALL day yesterday building & filming some really cool stuff, all based around temperature monitoring & notifications. That video should be out here in the coming days. Give it a watch, and see if it's stuff you would want to do, and then decide if it's stuff that's possible to do with your current system.
Ps - I wasn't kidding in the video about how long it even took me to figure out how to get it onto the nuc. Sometimes, the destination is worth the journey.
If you do manage to fix your current difficulty, I'd be really interested to hear what the solution to the problem was.
Great help!
Thank you for the kind words, and thanks for watching!
Thank you!
You're most welcome! Make sure to check out my updated video on how to do this. It's linked in the description and was shown as a card in this video.
Thanks for watching!
Bravoooooo really well done.
Thank you!
I Love the process thanks
Excellent, glad to hear it! Thanks for watching!
Great video, I am trying to do this on a Zotac Xbox bi323. I have gotten through flashing the HA image onto the hard disc but when I select the disc , the flash option doesn't become available.
Any idea where I made my mistake ?
Never mind , I figured it out , needed to format the drive before flashing HA . It's working now
What Option do i have on an older x86 Pc without Uefi boot option?
Cpu = Intel i5 2 Cores
Ram = 8GB
UEFI is required for HAOS, unfortunately.. I think the only option you'd have is to manually install Ubuntu and then run a core install on top of that?
Great question, and thanks for watching!
@@fasthowto Core install? What do you mean by that? Do you mean installing Home Assistant through terminal within running Ubuntu on my PC? Do you have any links or something that i can read what core installation is?
Check out my video about installation types.
Thanks for the precise instructions!
Just as an aside - the word UBuntu is pronounced as ooo-boon-tooo whereas there is another word spelled Bantu which is pronounced the way people mispronounce Ubuntu!
Well, darn. Thank you so much for the correction. I cannot believe I've been saying that incorrectly my entire life. And that now I've made a video for everyone to watch/hear me do it. LOL :(
@@fasthowto 😋
I followed the whole process step by step, thank you... HA is now running on a NUC but when I try to access it via the IP address on my MacBook I just get connection refused... - running a UDM Pro with NUC plugged into ethernet. Any ideas?
Are you putting the :8123 on the end and using http?
nice workaround dude😁😎
Awesome!! Thank you, new subscriber!!
Sweet! Thanks for watching and thanks for the sub!
I tried to do this on an old laptop but it doesn't seem to work for me. It doesn't let me install hacs and I can't log in to my home assistant cloud. With vm there is no problem. Could it be the laptop?
Since both of those items are internet-related, sounds to me like it's a network problem.
Thanks for watching!
Hello, i had the same problem with my ha, the problem was the laptop, becaus it was very old, after i changed it and now works perfectly
how do you get acces to the zigbee - zwave protocols? do you need external antenna's etc ?
I made a video about that.
What about the audio? Were you able to activate the audio?
To be honest, I never tried. I have no use for home assistant to do anything with micla audio. My home assistant server lives in a rack in the basement.
Thanks
Thank you so much for your generous superthanks!! Very kind!
Cool! Once it's installed, how do we set the IP to be static?
Settings - system - networking
Thanks for trying but it's very difficult to follow these instructions on a mini PC with just 2 USB ports, because it seems you need both a keyboard and a mouse to navigate; if you remove the flash drive after booting from it, the computer will hang (well, it did for me) at some point in the process. I'm also getting errors during installation of Balena Etcher even after following your commands exactly.
Balena got into a fight with their cloud provider. This has been discussed EXTENSIVELY in the comments. The usb stuff is very easily solvable.
Thanks for very useful video. I was trying to follow your instructions, all fine until I bumped in to the below issue: Balena Etcher running on ubuntu is not flashing HAOS in my M.2 drive with following information:- " something went wrong. if it is a compressed image please check that the archive is not corrupted" Could you help me to to get through this obstacle.
I ran into the same thing one time when I was trying to sort this all out. I think maybe it was an issue with the download? Reboot the whole thing & try it again so it pulls down a new download of haos. Also make sure you have deleted the partitions in the m.2 drive. Let me know if you get it going!
nice video and it feels almost like heaven send you^^
you got my abo :)
i bought the same nuc as you and i am trying to install proxmox on it for a month now…
i‘ve also tried to install debian and ubuntu without success.
after mentest86 i know the ram is okay, i updated the bios of the nuc to the newest version, i wanted to update the firmware of my nvme ssd too, but there is no update for it.
after i purchased one of this nvme to usb adapters (were the debian/ubuntu installed on the internal nvme slot booted without issues), i knew the ssd is not the problem.
so i contacted the intel customer support one week ago, but they still ask me many questions, without giving me a solution to solve this…
i still dont understand why this issue appears.
does the nuc have problems with booting from more then 1 partition?
why did you use etcher on ubuntu, would it not work with etcher on mac or windows?
is there a way to install proxmox with your or other methods?
on the proxmox website there is only a iso installer to download and not a bootable image data file, so i could not use your method, am i right?
Sorry, I'm not familiar with proxmox... Thank you for watching, I hope you were able to find something useful in this video and get your problem sorted!!
@@fasthowto well this issue has nothing to do with proxmox, cause debian and ubuntu does also not boot from the internal nvme slot. proxmox is debian based as ubuntu, so i am pretty sure if one of this distros would work the other ones would work as well.
do you know a method to get debian or ubuntu to work on this cursed intel pc?
even if not, it would be nice if you answer my other questions:
does the nuc have problems with booting from more then 1 partition?
how many partitions does home assistant have on your install method and how many does it have by default?
why did you use etcher on ubuntu, would it not work with etcher on mac or windows?
if im gonna buy nuc that built in windows, does i need to reinstal to linux then to HAOS, or i just directly instal HAOS thru windows
You need to wipe the windows os and run Linux from a flash drive, as shown in the video.
But it is also possible to take some free external disk and flash image there
Thank you very much for this detailed video.
unfortunately I am blocked when
trying to install etcher : I get the error sudo -E command not found
No idea where you got that command from? Check the description again for the necessary commands. There is no -E
Great video! many thanks! I got the install to work and the HAOS is up and running. I can ping it. But in no way can i connect to it using the ip:8123 or homeassistant.local:8123. Don't seem to have a block in my firewall either. What could be wrong? ip:4357 works fine.
There have been SEVERAL posts about this issue on the forums. No one has been able to pinpoint the source of the problem, but reinstalling has fixed it in every case I've read so far.
@fasthowto i did just that and now it`s working. Thank you very much
I wish this worked.
Running Ubuntu per the instructions on a Beelink S12, but I’m stuck at the terminal with errors during install. Have tried the latest files as well as the links in the videos.
Issues with dependencies: gconf-service, g-conf2, libgconf-2-4, etc.
Did you read the description?
@@fasthowto what do you mean? That’s where I’m getting the command line prompts.
The very first line of the description has a link to the updated video.....
@@fasthowto thanks. I didn’t see that; I went to the section that was referenced in the video.
All good. I found another video. It’s WAY easier to just install directly onto the drive after downloading from image from the HA website. Install, reboot, done. No fussing with command line.
Coming up with tthe same as others.... payment required for etcher! Is there a work around?
Nit the most timely response, and I apologize - but I updated the commands. Hopefully you've got it working already, otherwise, give that a go!
Balena-etcher is not running in latest Ubuntu distri anymore due to unsolvable gconf issues...
Yeah, I made an updated video that's much easier. Check it out!
Where is the new video? These instructions are not working for me@@fasthowto
I uploaded it months ago. Did I forget to out a link in the description? I'll fix that as soon as I get back to my desk.
Great video but, if you can then, it is so much easier to attach the drive from the HA machine to a PC and flash it directly.
If that's how you choose to do it, that's great - but that does not make it easier for everyone else. Thanks for watching!
Trying to install this on asus eeepc 1000h (32bit). Had to install balena manually thru a .AppImage file because I couldn't find any 32bit .deb installation file to swap into the given wget instruction. Anyway, I flashed HASO onto my main partition and after shutdown what I get is just a white blinking cursor on a black screen. I'm stuck there. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks
32-bit?! I didn't think anyone was still using anything that old in the consumer space..
According to the documentation, a 64-bit system is required.
@@fasthowto 😅 I know, I'm a little bit of a recycling addicted. Having tech junks at home always makes me think of ways to give them a second life. A home assistant hub could have been of some use. Hence the testing on a 32 bit system. Thanks anyway.
I would like to thank you for making these videos. I installed Home Assistant on a NUC by flashing it to a SSD drive. It loaded up great . The only problem now is I can not access it. The Local :8123 does not work. I am using Goole Mesh routers I do not know how to log in using ip address. Do not know how to find ip address on the network. If you can find the time, please help.
You'll need to log into your router and look for the IP address in the DHCP server. Alternatively, you can download an IP scanner like AngryIP or something similar and scan your network looking for it. Thanks for watching!
hi, I did everything as in the video, but Home assistant does not boot and only say "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Inser Boot Media in selected boot device and pres a key" do you have any ideas?
There are several things that could be, but the two most likely are either you missed a step in the BIOS, or the hard drive was not properly partitioned so the OS is not found.
Thanks for watching!
Great project. Unfortunately I am unable to follow because the video text is un-readable. Is it possible for you to add written instructions. That'll help a lot. TIA.
That was addressed during the video. Did you watch the entire video? With the volume on?
@@fasthowto i did but my issue was known disks. i had to pause and look at the command to find gnome-disks. who comes up with this cmd line stuff any way im almost done with my install dell 5070. thanks for your help this was the best video on installation.
never mind found it needed a bigger screen and need to stop driking..
Lol yeah, command line stuff is for the birds, I know... And I hear you about monitors and drinking. The monitor I do most of my work on is a 4k 55" TV I got from Walmart a few years back. Works awesome! Unless I'm a little deep into the whiskey, and then a monitor the size of a movie screen can't save me. 😂😂😂 Glad you were able to get it sorted, and thanks for watching!!
I'm following the links and it failed when trying to flash the hass image with ballena-etcher. It says something went wrong
Check out today's 5 minute fRYEday video!
I like your tshirt. It would have been a shame to keep you supervised indeed. :)
LOL Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video and the t-shirt! Thanks for watching!
Just curious. Can the OS connect to wifi or it needs to be on ethernet connection ?
It can use wifi, but I wouldn't.
Will this work with Mac M chips?
No idea. Not allowed in my house.
is it not possible to flash the haos directly to the SSD? The detour via Ubuntu seems cumbersome to me, at least at first glance.
Where would you flash it from? You need some running OS to write to the drive, and you can't run the OS from the drive you're trying to flash from...
@@fasthowto this makes sense. at least for all mac and laptop users. i have now simply installed the hard drive temporarily in my pc. so it was possible to flash the haos directly to the ssd from windows.
@@LucaBucher1 ah, gotcha. That's definitely an easier way - if you have the knowledge and tools to remove the drive, install it into another system, and then correctly identify it so as not to accidentally format/erase/wipe out a data disk. I'm really trying to make these videos as foolproof as possible to make the audience ad wide as possible, but maybe I should re-think that. It would allow me to get a bit more in the weeds in certain topics, anyway... Food for thought, I guess. Enjoy home assistant!
Soooooo I don't know what to do. I am a basic person with no coding/ tech knowledge. I was following along happy as a clam with myself for figuring this out so easily. But now I'm stuck in the coding bit. Apparently Ubuntu is no longer using cloud Smith. They're not paying them. So I'm getting a failed to fetch error code with 402 payment required notice.
What do i do now.....
Apparently this is the issue:
Hello,
We’re moving out of Cloudsmith as continuing to host the package there would be too costly for us.
We’re very thankful for the service and help CloudSmith provided, and would recommend their product for smaller open-source apps and private packages anytime!
At the moment we don’t have the bandwidth (pun intended) to set up an alternative repository but might be moving to self-hosted (probably CloudFlare) in the upcoming weeks.
So sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Note that you can always get a .deb and .rpm package in the release section of the GitHub repository.
I understand the words but I have no clue how to do the things. Lol any advice would be appreciated.
Yeah.... Apparently Balena had some issues with the price of Cloudsmith hosting. I think you can download etcher directly from Balena's website in the web browser in Ubuntu, and run it that way. I had some struggles with that, but it did work sometimes (I tried multiple times when making the video, and the command-line method was more reliable.. YMMV)
what ws the first command no-disk, I'm stuck over there. please help
nevermind, i just searched for disks and i past that step. I'm trying to follow your procedure and install HA on zimaboard. hopefully everything goes well, I'll keep you posted and thank you for this video.
i couldn't install balena etcher, i got the following error
unable to locate package balena-etcher-electron
so i downloaded balena etcher from the broswer , couldn't run the file
after some research i founs that i have to change the permission for the etcher image file
then i was able to run etcher
the url method didn't work
so i downloaded HA and flashed from file and now it's flashing
just wanted you a feed back on how things will go on zimaboard
I don't know why but every time I flash into my M.2 SSD disk It all hangs exactly at 30%. Any ideas?
Not sure if you solved this yet, but I made an updated video that's much easier to get haos installed. Hopefully you found it, and/or got it figured out!
I followed the instructions above and got all the way to entering the URL in Etcher (i downloaded it instead) and it gets to 36% flashing HAOS on the SSD and then it hangs up up and then shuts down etcher. Is anyone else having this issue? I'm guessing that I'm missing something that is very obvious. BTW, I downloaded etcher into the running (in-memory Ubuntu). Thanks.
Read the comments on here, it's been discussed.
But - stay tuned for tomorrow's 5 minute fRYEday video. I found a MUCH easier and more reliable way of doing it.
Thanks for watching!
Any way to edit this to show the extra steps needed now that cloudsmith isn’t functioning?
Sorry, no. TH-cam doesn't allow videos to be edited.
I cannot get Balena Etcher to work as portable, is it ok to us it as "installer"?
Not sure, I never tried. Maybe? Make sure to come back and let us know!
Why did ya not flash HA directly to the Harddisk? Buy an 5$ Dollar usb to Sata Adapter and flash HA directly with Balea edger to the harddisk of the nuc
Sounds like you didn't read the description, or see the card with the link to the updated video, and it DEFINITELY sounds like you haven't watched the follow-up video either. Lol
BTW - a SATA adapter is $12, not $5, and an NVMe one is $20.
Thanka for watching!
Does anyone know why i would be getting this error on the last line? everything up to this point worked fine and i copy pasted exactly the instruction
E: Unable to locate package balena-etcher-electron-y
Hi Jeff, I know you're a busy man but any insight into this. I know you this for free so no pressure but any guidance would be much appreciated
Hey, sorry man!! I updated the commands in the description due to balena'a fight with their cloud hosting provider. If you haven't gotten it working yet, give it a go now with the updated instructions. Also, I plan to shoot yet another follow-up video to this where I install directly to the ssd - from windows - using a cheap adapter from Amazon. I've already got a few videos queued up in front of that one, so probably 3-4 weeks before it gets published.
Thanks for watching, and my apologies on the delayed response. I hope you already got it working!!