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Install or Move Home Assistant On Dell Wyse Thin Client: Assistant - Io/hassio/installation

Installing Home Assistant on a Dell Wyse thin client involves: 1. Creating a bootable Ubuntu USB drive and downloading the Home Assistant NUC image to another USB drive. 2. Using the Ubuntu USB to access the thin client's BIOS and enabling booting from USB, then installing the Home Assistant image to the thin client's SSD or flash drive using dd. 3. Booting the thin client and accessing Home Assistant at the thin client's IP address and port 8123.

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Install or Move Home Assistant On Dell Wyse Thin Client: Assistant - Io/hassio/installation

Installing Home Assistant on a Dell Wyse thin client involves: 1. Creating a bootable Ubuntu USB drive and downloading the Home Assistant NUC image to another USB drive. 2. Using the Ubuntu USB to access the thin client's BIOS and enabling booting from USB, then installing the Home Assistant image to the thin client's SSD or flash drive using dd. 3. Booting the thin client and accessing Home Assistant at the thin client's IP address and port 8123.

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Install or Move Home Assistant on Dell Wyse Thin Client

I have had great success with running Home Assistant on Thin Clients. They are very inexpensive if
you shop around on eBay. Typically, in the range of $50. Be sure to get one with 4GB of RAM and
32GB Flash Drive or don’t worry about the Flash Drive size if you want to use a SSD instead. I bought
a 5020 with 4GB of RAM and 32GB Flash for $50 plus $15 shipping which work great as is. I also
bought a 7010 with 4GB of RAM and no Flash for $29 and it included shipping. I bought a SATA 22
pin cable and PNY 120GB SSD for less than $25 so my total cost on the 7010 was a little less than the
5020.

The Wyse Thin Clients I bought both have the SATA 22 connector in them. I have a Startech USB to
SATA cable that I tried flashing the Home Assistant NUC image to the Flash Drive and SSD with
Balena Etcher. In both cases I couldn’t get it to finish booting once I installed the drive in the Thin
Client.

The following steps have worked for me on both Clients. If you are installing an SSD be sure to get
the 11 inch 22 pin SATA cable so you can fold it and just lay the SSD inside.

1. Make a bootable Ubuntu USB key on 32GB Thumb Drive following these instructions.
https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/try-ubuntu-before-you-install#1-getting-started
2. Download NUC Intel Home Assistant image to 8GB Thumb Drive from https://www.home-
assistant.io/hassio/installation/
3. Connect Thin Client to ethernet, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
4. Power on Dell Thin Client while pressing DEL key to enter Bios. It may require a Password.
a. Default Password for Dell Thin Client is Fireport

b. Enable Boot From USB (Optional Set Power Loss Recovery and AUTO Power-On) Also
check that Boot Mode is UEFI

c. Change Boot order to make USB first (Make sure SATA 0 is before everything except
USB)
d. Disable Secure Boot
i. You can also disable Password if you wish.

e. Press F10 to save, then Power Off Thin Client.


5. Insert Ubuntu USB key and Power On Thin Client.
a. Select the Try Ubuntu option to load Ubuntu from USB Thumb Drive. (It should load the
Ubuntu desktop)
b.
c. Go to the Terminal app

6. Insert the NUC Intel Home Assistant image Thumb Drive in another available USB port.
7. From the Terminal at the prompt type df -h to list the paths
a. Find your path the Home Assistant image. In my case it was
/media/ubuntu/NUC/hassos_intel-nuc-5.12.img.xz
b. Also note your path for your target Flash Drive or SSD
i. Note: If you do not see your target drive using df -h use the Ubuntu Disk Utility
app and it should show there and provide the Device path for the Target Drive.
Select the Drive and it will show you the path as shown in example path for 16GB
Thumb Drive is /dev/sdb1.

c. An alternative to find your path is to open Files Folder in Ubuntu desktop and hover
your mouse over the NUC image Thumb Drive.

d. From the terminal type sudo xz -dc /path/to/image.xz | sudo dd of=/path/to/your/ssd


bs=4M conv=fsync (After the -dc replace your path where I show mine and then the
path to your destination drive)
e. In my case it was sudo xz -dc /media/ubuntu/NUC/hassos_intel-nuc-5.12.img.xz |
sudo dd of=/dev/sda bs=4M conv=fsync
f. If you don’t have any typos it should copy the Home Assistant image to the Thin Client
flash drive
g. Once complete, Power Off the Thin Client and remove USB Thumb Drives.
8. Power On the Thin Client while pressing DEL and enter the Bios. Make sure the Boot order
includes the flash drive or ssd either first or after the USB devices. If not, move it to the correct
order, press F10 to save and exit.
9. Home Assistant will install, and you should be able to go to your router and see the new device
connected.
10. From your browser, go to Home Assistant by entering the ip address and :8123 (For example
192.168.252.120:8123)

11. If you are a first-time user, you are done and should begin your first Home Assistant setup.
There is plenty of online help from this point.
12. If you are moving from another device there is an option on the startup page to restore from a
previous Snapshot. It will give you options to what you want to restore. I always restore
everything.

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