Upgrade your Smart Home Server game with Proxmox

Home Assistant install with Proxmox - setup your virtual HomeLAB for you smart home on this tiny computer - geni.us/VqIfv9f - install multiple versions of smart home automation software such as home assistant, openHAB and other popular open source applications such as plex, jellyfin, trueNAS, OPNsense, Zenarmor, Nextcloud, Adguard. Perfect for testing and learning without disrupting your current setup.
Powerful NUC - geni.us/VqIfv9f
MidRange NUC - geni.us/u91UtMy
Cheaper NUC - geni.us/6hP0fgD
USB Keys - geni.us/ejZ0Igz
nuphy Keyboard - geni.us/ytSYl
Raspberry Pi 5 Kit - geni.us/veXV
Check out my website for more details but below are the main things you will need - it should be up very soon after this video goes live!
yoyoknows.com
--- Important Links from the video ---
--- Proxmox - How to write to a USB key ----
---- Debian Linux Download URL ---
cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/...
---- Commands to install openHAB ---
su root
sudo usermod -aG usermod yoyotech
git clone -b openHAB github.com/openhab/openhabian... /opt/openhabian
ln -s /opt/openhabian/openhabian-setup.sh /usr/local/bin/openhabian-config
cp /opt/openhabian/build-image/openhabian.conf /etc/openhabian.conf
openhabian-config unattended
---- Script to install Home Assistant ---
bash -c "$(wget -qLO github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/...)"
---- Run this afterwards to remove NAGS in Proxmox ---
bash -c "$(wget -qLO - github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/...)"
00:00 - Intro
00:51 - Why would I want a homelab
01:10 - What do you need for a homelab
02:01 - What will we use today
02:34 - How-to Install Proxmox
05:57 - What we are doing next
06:24 - How-to Install Debian Linux on Proxmox for openHAB
09:20 - How-to Install openHAB on Proxmox
10:28 - How-to Install Home Assistant on Proxmox
12:03 - What else can we do

[@yoyoTechKnows]

Lets us know if you are running home assistant on proxmox - share your setup and pros and cons - do you recommend it vs a rasp pi?

[@RichardKoshak]

Great video!
One little quibble, you don't need to use `sudo` after you've already `su` to root at around 8:53. You can just use the sudo command directly or omit the sudo on the second command.
It would be kind of neat to see the difference between creating a VM verses an LXC Container and the advantages/disadvantages of doing so.

[@yoyoTechKnows]

@RichardKoshak thank you for the feedback - good catch! Originally I was going to login as root first, then sudo - thought is was easier to stick to the user su root, then add to the user to sudoers - I was coping and pasting from my notes! lol! I looked though some discussions about container setups, but didn't see too much success - let me know if there are any good resources I can look at - could be a future video! - again - thanks for watching!

[@veli33yilmaz]

Great tutorial. But the links you provided in description are not working. They look short, i cant see the whole link. When i right click copy it, it copies the youtube redirect link. Can you type them as plain text not as url bridges

[@tdevosodense]

🇩🇰 I have consolidated all pi's to a Lenovo M82 , 128gb ssd / 1tb nvme-pcie-card, 32gb ram , running Proxmox 👍 and its way easier to make a backup as well

[@yoyoTechKnows]

Backups/snapshots are super easy to manage - I like knowing I can try things and easily revert if there were any major issues - thanks for watching!

[@ha_tinkerer1191]

Another excellent video. I’m running my main HAOS (currently) on an RPi. But I have also taken the plunge and installed Proxmox on a nuc-type device, and setup HAOS and a windows environment. I’d really like to see the video you mentioned that shows how to use the same zwave and other dongles on more than 1 instance of HA. I’m thinking of then sun setting my RPi. Originally I was looking for a hardware failover solution for HAOS (since the entire home runs on it), but even with a second zwave dongle I couldn’t figure out how to keep them both in sync.
Also interested in other homelab solutions, and how to integrate them with HAOS. Thanks!

[@yoyoTechKnows]

Thank you - and thanks for watching. Raspberry Pi's are great, but once you start using proxmox its hard to go back - I have multiple devices on my proxmox setup, but not in a fail over capacity - I have different versions of HA using different dongles - If I get a chance I will see if I can test that out - there has been a number of requests for more info on how to setup and use zigbee and zwave dongles in proxmox! Good luck with your switch over!

[@ha_tinkerer1191]

@@yoyoTechKnows thanks! Maybe you answered a key question... Each instance needs a separate zwave dongle, but I thought zwave stores key network info in the dongle's NVM? and if so, how to keep that in sync. Thanks

[@midrbn]

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