Can't find a RASPBERRY PI to run HOME ASSISTANT? Try this $35 THIN CLIENT instead!
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- Having a hard time finding a Raspberry Pi in stock? Need something with enough power for Home Assistant and some addons? Check out this used Thin Client for $35 (SHIPPED!), and the process to get a Home Assistant image up and running on it. Home Assistant doesn't include an installer, so we have to creatively image the internal SSD by first booting to a live Linux image.
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Before you choose your thin client, be sure to check the model and specs, as well as what's included. Things to watch out for:
* Does it have a power adapter?
* Is the solid state drive included, and is it big enough for Home Assistant?
* Does it have a halfway decent processor?
I selected a Dell WYSE 5060 since it was the cheapest available with the power adapter and an SSD included at the time. It's on par performance-wise with a few year old budget laptop, featuring a quad core AMD embedded processor, 4G of RAM, and 16G SSD in this configuration. Not great by modern gaming desktop standards, but definitely better than even a good Pi. I wouldn't want to run Windows on it, but Home Assistant is much easier on the system requirements.
Affiliate links to some eBay searches to help you get started:
Dell Wyse 5060 (my favorite) - ebay.us/HDNfVY
Dell Wyse 3040 (less powerful, smaller) - ebay.us/bRjuLg
The 3040 is adequate to run HA and Z-wave/Zigbee, but not more demanding addons like Frigate. It's very small and has very low power consumption, so it's a good choice for a basic HA setup. For some guidance on BIOS configuration of the 3040, see this other video of mine: • Dell Wyse 3040 Thin Cl...
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:23 - Preparing for Installation
01:00 - Imaging the USB Drive
01:48 - BIOS Configuration
03:32 - Install Home Assistant
09:02 - Home Assistant Setup
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As many have stated, great tutorial on how to get Home Assistant installed on a PC. I appreciate you taking the time to document the process and sharing it.
Thanks for this video. I got a Dell 5070 on ebay and now I have Home Assistant running on it. It was a little more work but this video so a huge help.
Awesome video! Easy to follow, worked like a charm!
Thank you so much for the video. I was able to install home assistant on HP Thin Client T620. As you mentioned the steps it was easy until the XUBUNTU version 22.04 didn't run and figured out that it needs minimum 2.0GHz of processing speed. I used 20.04 and all went easy.
Thanks for the tip on the T620. Worked flawlessly for me. I had no issue running Xubuntu 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish" on the T620.
Thanks for this tip. It solved my problem too
Great informative video, the best one out there!!
Great tutorial. Worked flawlessly on a HP T520. Just for giggles, this method can be used too by installing Home Assistant on a Proxmox host as a VM. While other methods exist, this one was actually the laziest and easiest way to do. I created a UEFI type VM, but without the EFI partition and I used an IDE type OS disk and Intel E1000 NIC...
Thanks a lot for this. Very clear instruction.
Glad it was helpful!
Really helpful video, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Honestly, i can’t understand why they don’t make an image for android smartphones or tv boxes. Everybody has at least one or two laying around without any purpose in life and surely they have enough power to run home assistant.
They do, I run Armbian which is a fork of debian on a old Minix Neo X8 Plus android box and its pretty good
Surely they also have locked bootloaders and proprietary firmware/driver blobs which may or may not work with a custom build that has a different version of kernel, libraries, etc. They also often involve guesswork because "open source" Android for most manufacturers of Android smartphones means "if you send us a formal letter, we'll agree to send you a copy of our code after we're headlining major news outlets - but no word about how to get it running, or which one of the 4000 options you need to set to get it to compile". It's a freaking mess, and without access to the exact smartphone you want to use, pretty much impossible to support.
Great video and a much easier install than the instructions I created for Home Assistant a couple of years ago. I am curious how you captured the Thin Client screen to make this video? Camera? Very well done.
USB HDMI capture device + OBS Studio for screen capturing
Thanks this was very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
I found your channel recently and love the content. Your mic with camera is a little rough but I know it will get better as you do this more and get more equipment. Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks! Do you mean the gray table area or the screen capture segments?
@@apalrdsadventures yup
Cool thanks this is new for us.
Great work. This vdo made me confident to buy WYSE for HA. tqvm
I am having an issue where only the USB drive shows up in my second Balena Etcher flash (e.g. the one where we're wanting to install HA on the computer). I am on a windows machine and Windows is still installed, do I need to uninstall it first? If so how? Thank you!
I've been looking for a Raspberry PI for a year until I stumbled on this alternative. I couldn't find any Wyse 5060's available but was able to successfully install on an HP T620. The bios screens were different, but easy enough to figure out. The unit I received had no OS so I did have to go into the bios setup AFTER installing HomeAssistant on the SSD to enable boot to it. Other than that, the instructions were perfect.
Glad you were able to get it working! I actually have a T620 that I received recently to test myself
Hi, could you please explain how you got it installed on T620? I got stuck during booting after I select 'try or install Ubuntu' or 'use safe graphics' I still et black screen
Thanks for the video! I ordered one a couple of days ago. It only has an 8gig flash but I have an old SSD which I'm going to shuck and plug into that flash connector. These are available for less than the equivalent HP T620 so should make a decent HA box.
AFAIK the 5060 is better than the T620 by a decent margin, so the T620 must just be popular. The 3040 is cheaper if you want to go low end.
@@apalrdsadventures Thanks - confirms my choice (and it looks better too)! The 3040s are harder to get where I am and also tend to be a bit more expensive. Biggest issue is the non expandable ram and flash!
My Dell thin client had 4Gb and ran out of memory trying to flash HA to the SSD. I took out the SSD, connected to my main machine via a USB adapter, and flashed the same file to the SSD from Windows 11. When I added the SSD back to the small Dell it started perfectly. The only snag was when I restored a backup onto the new install at the login page. It came up with an "cannot Fetch" error and the web interface crashed. Restart? All fine. The restore had worked after all. Cheers for this tutorial. A great help!
Glad it worked out for you! It seems like at some point in the last year, balena etcher started caching the download file on disk, which is in RAM on a live install, which makes it run out of space.
What is the spec of the Dell Wyse 5060 Thin Client you are using?
i followed this tutorial and it worked wonderfully on my wyse 5070... but one problem. when i go to home assistant everything works fine except there's no configuration button in the sidebar. i turned on advanced mode of course, but still no sidebar button. any ideas ?
Great video
Thanks!
I'm stuck at @06:50 mark
I click on the etcher and it says archive type not supported
How big of a flash drive do you need and which one did you use?
Which seller did you buy from? How fast is this processor as compared to Intel, which equivalent Intel version is this, and what generation? Where to get the power cable?
Got one and I took out the drive, plugged it in to a USB to SATA adapter and used it with Etcher. No need for LiveOS.
10 out 10 bro did the same to a "HP Elitedesk 800 G2 (8GB,240 SSD)" best thing I every did
I've a problem with my WIn 11/VirtualBox setup for Home Assistant. When it reboots I loose the Zigbee2MQTT links and have to unplug my Sonoff USB 3 dongle and restart Z2MQTT. Would a mini pc solve the problem? Thanks
Are you having issues when you reboot Win11 or the VM within Virtualbox? In general, Virtualbox isn't great at hardware passthrough, either using hyper-V (if your version of Windows supports it) or going to dedicated hardware (Pi or mini PC) will be an improvement. Hardware will also use less power than a Windows PC if you turn the PC off when you aren't using it.
Great vid, thanks. Any recommendations for other models/makes to consider or avoid?
I bought a Dell Wyse 3040 without a power brick and it's been a pain to work with, mostly because the UEFI has some issues and the power connector is something I couldn't find. I'm going to try HA on it after I'm done testing it with xubuntu, but I ended up removing the power jack and soldering on a USB lead since it needs 5V power.
Other than that and the (much better built but almost always more expensive) 5060, I haven't tried any. They all have quirks.
I just picked up a brand new HP T630, 8GB DDR4 & 32GB M.2
Followed this tutorial and had Home Assistant OS installed in no time. Works flawlessly. Much more powerful than a Raspberry PI4. People here in Canada are trying to sell PI 4's for $200 or more !!! I am pretty sure the same jerks are selling RTX cards for ridiculous amounts. I paid $80 for the T630, brand new in the box!
Instructions were great! went step by step and was able to create my internal drive load. I do however still have issues where my PC does not see the boot partition. I am using a older mini PC and the BIOS is dated 2008 but it does show the UEFI (or what ever). Any ideas? I looked for a decent 35.00 thin client quad core but they seem to not exist anymore for that price.
If it's that old it's possible that it either doesn't support UEFI boot or you have to selct the boot mode between legacy and UEFI in the BIOS menu. If it doesn't support UEFI at all then I believe you're out of luck.
The quad core I have is overkill for Home Assistant unless you're running Frigate or similar, so going down to something like a Dell Wyse 3040 is perfectly functional.
I got a wyse 5070, got running on DietPi x64 it had all driver especially realtek R8169
it's running CasaOs, Jellyfin, H.Assistant, AdGuard, HandBrake....
I just ordered an Acer PC with Intel i3 processor 240 GB SSD for $59 on eBay. Free shipping and it comes with Windows 10. Pre-installed.
Im sorry, but bit late for me to watch your vids, but really needs help here, what Dell WYSE series is that? I got Dell WYSE 5010 thin client, where it cannot install the grub, wich in result it maybe not be start in ubuntu at all, so any idea for what I should use in it or use windows only?? pls need your help, thanks
I have a 5060. The 5010 should work, but it's older. You might have to try seeing if the BIOS has disabled boot from USB or internal storage, you really never know how they came configured from their previous use.
it works well in my hp thinClient. thanks ( :
Glad to hear that
I am wondering how was Balena etcher able download a 6.44GB HassOS image into 4 GB RAM of your Wyse 5060 thin client all the while the RAM is being shared for the OS and running procecces?
Both HTTPS downloads and gzip decompression support incremental transfers so presumably it's downloading -> decompressing -> writing byte by byte, with some buffering at each step.
as was thinking of it as a rPi alternative as well... ubuntu server and dockers or something. Oh and my main reasoning for this was due to power consumption as priority.
That $35 listing sold out quickly 😆. This is a fun little box to use as a Rpi alternative.
That specific model is sold out now, but there are plenty of other models to choose from!
Great video and i got me thinking to try to install HA on a old Delll optiplex 7010 i have laying around. My question is if HA requires a SSD or can it be run on a mechanical SATA drive?
It doesn't require an SSD. It doesn't actually need much storage at all, unless you're running addons that use it.
can you use adguard on these?
Thanks for a great video! Does the Dell have built in Bluetooth? Or can I add a dongle and install that to the thin client before installing HA?
No builtin bluetooth on the 5060. You can add USB if that's what you mean.
How much does it consume, compared to a Raspi 4?
quick question, what are you using to capture the scrren of the PC even on BIOS? thanks.
DisplayPort to HDMI cable into an HDMI to USB capture device on another computer
Hello,
Just found your channel : )
Perhaps not the correct place to ask but you seam to be running alot of the same stuff as i am, including OpnSense and Home Assistant.
Do you mind me asking you if your using HAProxy for Home Assistant and if so if you got it working over WebSocket?
Thansk
I don't use HAProxy at all. I use OpenVPN (on OPNsense) for remote access to internal services.
Has anyone tested power consumption under different load conditions?
Hey, have a 5020 and already running HASSIO. Quick question. Do you know whether the mPCIe can be used for a Coral or is it locked down for the HP wifi card? (read somewhere) Know if the 5060's is? Appreciate watching your video even after I've done it. Will check my bios settings for the auto power. Good pickup and terrific use / recycling of such a machine instead of buying new for HA. Keep up the top content!
It depends on the exact model.
They only electrically connect the signals they need for the WiFi card they are shipping with that family. An M.2 Wifi slot (E key) can have up to 2x PCIe (two single lane buses, not a dual lane bus), USB 2, SDIO, I2C, UART, etc. Some of the HP WiFi cards use SDIO, so PCIe devices don't work since the slot is only wired for SDIO. Most slots also only wire one PCIe bus instead of both, so only one of the two TPUs on the E key dual coral will work anyway (this goes for a lot of motherboards, not just the used thin clients).
On the 5020/Dx0Q, reading online (I don't have one) it looks like it has mini PCIe instead of M.2, so it wouldn't fit a Coral anyway. It's a slightly wider connector with two mounting screws instead of one.
On the 5060 it has M.2 and should have a single PCIe bus available (out of two possible), so the coral E key would work with one of the two TPUs functioning. On the 3040 it has SDIO, so no coral there. USB3 is always an option if you can find one in stock.
@@apalrdsadventures Thank you for your response. Agreed. USB is the way. Also allows for easy upgrades later. Thank you for your reply! 🙂
Trying to 'install' on a T630.
Followed your steps to the letter, but for some reason it does not go beyond 36% only 1m22 to go. Any suggestions on how to fix this. Can't I flash from file instead of url?
You can go from file if you have a place to put the file (like another USB drive), since xubuntu isn't installed it would have to fit the file entirely in RAM.
Thanks. How does the power consumption of the thin client compare to say a RPi 4?
Depends on the model. The newest two I have are the 3040 and 5060, both are quite power efficient, the 3040 is definitely in the ballpark of the Pi 4 in terms of power usage (the stock wall brick is 15W and I've run it on 10W power adapters). the 5060 is a bit higher, I've measured it as high as 35W under high load, but it also has a better CPU and GPU, a real SSD, etc.
Wow. Was literally looking for ""thin client" Home assistant" and found this video. Which was uploaded hours ago. God must be real. 😁
Glad it was helpful!
@@apalrdsadventures Finally got around to doing this, and it's setup and working right now.
I followed this toot and it tootally worked. Thanks for a good toot.
Only things I'd add are that you went a little quick on some parts, but in general this was all that was needed to get the job done. Giving some estimates for how long things would take (rather than just saying "Be Patient") would've been helpful, but in generally, all good. 👍👍
Love your content on thin clients. Can this connect to the home network using a wifi dongle while running Home Assistant OS? All my IoT devices are on a separate wifi SSID.
It doesn't have Wifi natively, so that would depend on if HA OS has support for your USB or M.2 wifi adapter. That said, Home Assistant recommends against using wifi with HA OS, even if it does technically support it.
Thank you for the informative video, now that Rpi’s are selling for their weight in gold, they seem pointless. Can you advise if the HP T730 with 4GB Ram and SSD can work for Home Assistant. Much obliged.
It's hard to say without testing it how it will work. I have a cheaper Dell 3040 and it has a ton of UEFI bugs that make it very difficult to run basically anything on it, but on paper it should be able to handle HA just fine.
A t620 is already massive overkill for running only home assistant. So yes, you can absolutely use it for that. But I'd advise running it in a docker container so you can use it for some other things as well. (have a look at rancherOS for that)
I ordered mine after watching this video. It is far cheaper option than Raspberry pi if your main purpose is to setup as home server. The price of raspi these days is 3 to 4 times of the thin client pc due to chip shortage.
I know, if you can even get a Pi these days! I've been replacing Pi's in older projects with 3040s and 5060s to reclaim them for projects that need GPIO
Hey if I have one of those hard drive to USB things, could I just download Home Assistant OS directly to the SSD somehow and circumvent the need for a flash drive?
I have a windows machine. And a bit of a noob in these things.
Yes, if you remove the SSD and connect it to another computer, you can just start at the second flash step (the one where it's flashed from a URL), then put the SSD back in when it's done.
I hope you can make a same video, but specifically for a HP t620 4/16 thin client. I run in troubles to do so. Thank you
I've gotten some comments that more recent versions of balenaetcher seem to struggle with this process - I'm guessing it's related to the image being larger than the amount of space on the live linux system. Other than that, the process should be similar.
I am almost done with installing Home Assistant on a Dell WYSE.... but I'm stuck. I loaded HA to the Dell hard drive and booted into the HA terminal which gives me a link to home assistant, but I'm stuck at the "ha>" terminal command, and don't know how to get from the "ha>" to a browser to get to the web link shown in the terminal mode that HA has listed...
Can anyone help?
If the ha> command pops up that should mean it booted and there's nothing more to do locally. If it didn't show the web link, it's possible Ethernet isn't connected or it's not getting an IP over DHCP?
Hi there, yes I'm getting to the same point. I get to a Ha prompt. In the video he says go to the web address which is shown on the home assistant screen. I can see the address but how do I go to it ?!
Hi Great Video, I followed and flashed HA image to SATA drive of my Dell 5060 Wyse but when I try to boot into HA I get "Secure Boot - Image failed to verify with *ACCESS DENIED* " Any Ideas please? Boot mode is set to UEFI in BIOS
You should be able to disable secure boot in the UEFI. It's possible mine just didn't have that option set when I got it, it's kinda random how it has been configured previously.
Thank you. Question. Why not just run Home Assistant from docker with a fresh install of your favorite Linux distro?
HA OS manages all of that, including their addon 'store'. So HA OS is a lot more approachable for newer users.
For me it was just easier to unplug the SSD and do the image that way. The ubuntu thing didn't let me open the appimage for Balena Etcher. So i could have saved atleast 2hours by just unplug the SSD.
It's been a while since I've looked at this...
I remember battling this a little too.
I opened a browser and entered the websites URL.
Be careful to use "http:" and not "https:"
and be patient...
I keep on getting stuck at 25% flashing. The system just freezes. Could you advise on this please?
Is it a 5060 or something else? I saw that once on a 2G RAM system, but that system did work on the second try. I'd guess that at some point there just isn't enough RAM to keep the entire OS and also part of the HA download in memory. Part of the reason to use xubuntu instead of ubuntu.
Great video I love it! I found a thin client on eBay with 4GB of RAM and 8GB SSD do you think that it is enough to flash home assistant on it?
Realistically it's probably fine if it's new enough to have 4G of RAM, but there are some really old thin clients still for sale on eBay that aren't very good.
Have the exact same model. However, when I attempt to flash X onto a flash drive, it breaks it. Any other flashing software that doesnt break USB drives?
Are you sure you're selecting the internal sata SSD instead of flashing onto the USB drive you're booting from? By default, Etcher will choose any USB disk it finds and not let you select what it thinks are internal disks.
@@apalrdsadventures Yes sir I am positive. But somehow the thin client starts at the boot menu. No matter if I choose the original sata drive or the flash drive, it briefly flashs "_" and then displays the boot menu again. I figured this would be easier then this lol.
Does the UEFI setup allow SATA boot? Some of them might be configured weird, like if it was previously used for network booting.
Will the 5060 need to have an OS from Dell? will the process of installing HA take care of that part Great instructions by the way
Mine came with a thin client specific Linux from Dell, and installing HA wiped it out without issue
@@apalrdsadventures I am new to home assistant but have experience with hubitat and Ezlo which I realize neither one of those having thing to do home assistant
what requirements would I need to look for in purchasing one if I were going to run I decked out version of home Assistant
Home Assistant itself requires very little. The resource usage is mostly dependent on what addons you want to run. Frigate, for example, uses quite a lot of resources for camera recording and analysis. If you just want automation, Z-wave and Zigbee don't need a whole lot, just USB ports for the dongles.
been selling my pi3s and replaced 2 of them with 5020s these one is running octoprint and the other destined for HA i took the SSD out and imaged it with a USB adaptor
I have projects in progress that would actually use the GPIO on the Pi, so anything I can do to move those projects along and replace a Pi with something else is great for me.
@@apalrdsadventures have you seen that you can get USB GPIO boards ? im toying with getting one for test with a thin client
Yes, but some things are just easier on the Pi (like driving WS2812s or I2C), especially if I'm buying or building a hat. I have a ton of older Pi's though, so I can usually go through my stash of OG Pi's (the ones with two USB ports) for maker projects.
nice video, i am looking for a solution to add HA on separate device than my home server and i happen to have a liva device (its a mini almost same like that u have thinclient) and i am trying to understand what is the best way to approach it , i am hoping to install the OS version of HA. if i understand correct u installed HA direct on thinclient? i am looking to do something similar can you please explain a little more? thank you
HA OS for x64 comes as a .img, which is a full disk image of what needs to be on the boot drive. It will automatically expand to fit the entire drive the first time it boots. There is no installer, the disk image is already setup.
So, you need a way to copy that img onto the boot drive directly.
In my case, I'm booting a live Linux installer and using that to image the disk in-place, but if you can take the boot disk out you could image it in another computer (using something like raspberry pi imager or balena etcher). This method should work (although a few comments have suggested newer versions of balena etcher don't work as well for this).
@@apalrdsadventures if i will follow the same steps will it work? I am asking cause its my 1st trying something like that. I dont know exactly how t do it and i am trying to get info
There's a comment around here on this video suggesting a very specific version of balena etcher to use, so try that and let me know how it goes. If that doesn't work, I can try to suggest another option.
@@apalrdsadventures i just saw again the video and read again your comment so u did this process in order to make partition on the boot drive at the thin client because its .img , i think the one that i have has ubuntu already installed, i need to check it to be sure, if it has ubuntu that i believe it has what do u suggest do? follow your instructions, and btw thanks for your guidance
The process will erase everything already on the drive and replace it with Home Assistant OS. So Ubuntu will be gone.
Verry helpfull video! Unfortunately it seem's not to work with a Fujitsu Futro S740 Thin Client. I tried to do it exactly the way as described but when I come to "restart" I get no message to remove the USB stick (i used Xubuntu 22.04.1 whith the tra option). Wenn the S740 restarts it shows message "Starting PSX over IPv4" and after a while, wenn getting no server answere "Starting PSX over IPv6" and then the same. After that i can only run a diagnostic or shut down. No Home Assistant will boot up. What a mess. I have no idea what to do. Can anybody help?
It sounds like it's not configured to boot from internal storage. You probably have to change the boot order in the BIOS / something along those lines.
@@apalrdsadventures Yes, this seem's to be the problem. The S740 can boot from USB but unfortunately not from the internal M.2 S-ATA port (i tried with the original 16GB M.2 and with another 512GB M.2 S-ATA - both were even not detected by the BIOS boot-menu but were displayed in gparted) . I couldn't find any BIOS-option to activate booting from the internal M.2 port. So I ordered an external USB to M.2 S-ATA housing and will place the existing 512 GB M.2 S-ATA in this housing and plug it into one of the two existing USB 3.0 ports. Not the ideal way but at least it should work and be fast enought for Home Assistant. Thanks for your quick reply!
It might be that internal SATA is disabled? Sometimes if it was previously used for network booting they will disable all other boot options even if the BIOS/UEFI supports it.
Do you think this is a better option than doing the proxmox route?
It depends on what you want out of your Proxmox setup. If you are hosting other home applications on Proxmox and keep it running 24/7 then Proxmox is a good way to go. If you aren't, then having a dedicated appliance to keep running 24/7 like this is good.
Thanks for this video. I've gone through this process a few times and while I've succeeded, my Ubuntu runs so slowly off the USB drive plugged into Dell Thin Client. I've tried different thumb drives, tried persistent install, and it's still really slow. It looks much snappier in your video. Any ideas on what I should try?
I'm using xubuntu which is lighter than regular Ubuntu, directly off a USB drive. It's honestly not that snappy, but it's very usable.
@@apalrdsadventures Thanks, I'll give Xubuntu a shot!
I am having the same issue it gets so slow that the mouse and keyboard literally stopped responding.
Not all thin clients have the always-on option like this one
How would this setup connect to zigbee devices?
You'd need a USB zigbee dongle that either Zigbee2MQTT or Zigbee Home Automation supports - www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha/ and www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/adapters/ for supported hardware
living in a rich country is great for stuff like this or any sort of second hand stuff.
hello my friend. this is a very educational video for beginners. but i have a problem. the problem is after i remove the installation medium, then i press enter, one line is blinking top corner of the screen and didn't nothing. i have a samsung netbook with atom processor 1.6 ghz and 2 gb ram. Is this system not enough to run?
That should be plenty powerful.
Is the issue that it doesn't reboot on its own (when you press enter)? You can just force power it off and back on.
Another possibility is the netbook doesn't support UEFI, and then it might not be able to run Home Assistant (easily at least).
@@apalrdsadventures when i press enter then it restarts. But after like i said it gets stuck at blinking line.
maybe it doesn't support uefi as you said. I do not know its an old laptop :) is uefi necessary for home assistant?
If you can enter the BIOS settings, you can try disabling secure boot. If you don't have an option for that, it might not support UEFI.
@@apalrdsadventures ok my friend. when i go to home i'll check it. i will give you information. thank you for your support
@@apalrdsadventures it's not have secure boot on bios screen. and i cannot see any uefi options in bios :(
there is way to run homeassistant on wyse and using it also as desktop?
Not using HA OS, although you can install Home Assistant (by itself, no addons) in Docker on Debian Desktop if you want to do that.
Thanks for making this video. I am sitting here watching my front yard camera waiting patiently for the Brown truck to show up. A 5060 is on its way. It has 16gb ram, 64gb ssd, and wi-fi and bluetooth on it (w/antennas). I also have a new 500gb sata ssd waiting to be installed. I already tore the 2.5 inch enclosure open to see the small card so hopefully it will fit without too much fuss. Yep, it didn't have screws. Had to pry it open with a knife. :) If all goes as planned, I will probably sell my Pi4B w/4gb ram to offset my new purchase. Appreciate the videos you have put out on these thin clients. I had no idea they even existed.
Glad you enjoyed it! If you want a cheaper option for other projects, the 3040 is usually cheaper, but with much lower performance than the 5060. They're both pretty modern unlike the rest of the Dell models.
Did you manage to get your SSD installed? The SSD drive in my 5060 is physically smaller than all the other SSDs I found on line.
I've been using the stock one, but I've heard that some people have removed standard 2.5" SSDs from their housing and found that the PCB is small enough to fit. Of course, this depends entirely on the SSD you get being small on the inside.
Do you use other OS, sorry looking like for Debian, something stable. Ubuntu isn't really stable.
Home Assistant OS is really its own thing
He was only using Xubuntu to install the Home Assistant OS onto the SSD. Once that's done, you don't need it, so stability is not a big issue.
What’s the power consumption of one of these devices?
Peak is around 40W all out, idle is much lower around 15W or so.
@@apalrdsadventures Brilliant - thank you!
can I install HA on wyse 5010?
The 5010 is an older unit, it should be comparable in performance to the 3040. So don't expect a ton of addons (esp. Frigate) but for HA + Zwave and the basics it should be fine. Some of them might not have a big enough ssd from the factory though.
Man I’m looking for vids like this I want tot eh home assistant but looking for something small and intel nucs are like 300$
Yea these guys are super reasonable!
what is the use of home assistant?
It's software that unifies most of the IOT devices like temp/hum/door/window/VOC sensors, smart thermostats & humidifiers, smart plugs & lights, etc. with the appropriate communication adapters (Bluetooth, z-wave, tuya, etc.) It brings manufacturers like Govee, Switchbot, Aqara, and (but not limited to) Wyze into one ecosystem, instead of across multiple apps.
Celeron or Pentium?
The one in the video has an AMD Puma cpu
This video dragged on way longer than it needed to
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