SUPER EASY! Adding an NVMe to Home Assistant Yellow.
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- I have run out of space on my Home Assistant Yellow so it is finally time to add some extra storage. For that, I'll be installing an M.2 NVMe SSD.
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- Supported Drives: yellow.home-assistant.io/supp...
- NVMe and CM4 issue: github.com/raspberrypi/linux/...
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00:00 Intro
01:21 Install NVMe
04:14 What is Home Assistant Yellow
05:09 Move the data disk
06:41 Incompatible NVMe Drives
09:03 Verifying the results
10:04 Final thoughts - Наука та технологія
This was a great help. I used the NVMe you recommended (thought larger capacity) and it went through straight away - thank you!
Just another really helpful video - not that I trying or planning to do that (running on x64 with 256GB Sata SSD right from the beginning) but its good to know how to do it and how easy it is, so thanks a lot. One thought I had when putting in a (too) big SSD on my box was, SSD will wear out over time and will mark cells as bad and map them somewhere else is my understanding, so in theory a drive with lots of free space will last longer? Dont know if this is true since I dont know much about the inner workings of SSD. Your videos are just the most informative and enjoyable to watch for me so many thanks for your excellent work!
Makes me happy that I built my HA on an old pc and used a 1T main drive...👍🥳
I got my PoE Home Assistant Yellow. I even have the NVMe. Now I am just waiting to try and find a damn Raspberry Pi CM4. Those things are damn hard to find, so for now I have to use my HA Blue still.
This is worth a video. External storage/additional storage in HA is something that so many people have been searching for and asking for. It's been something that has been requested over and over for at least the last 4 years that I know of. Frigate and Plex integrations really need this.
By the same token, Frigate and Plex, at least in my opinion, should be done on more powerful hardware than what a Raspberry Pi currently provides. I actually plan on setting up one instance of Home Assistant on a mini PC that I have specifically for that reason.
Thank you for the video.
Any reason you opted not to also move the OS to the NVMe drive?
Do you have any reservations about the Yellow?
With the same setup HA yellow and a Samsung SSD 970 Evo plus i have this issue ; Failed to move datadisk
Another job is running ?
Does the process wipe the eMMC drive?
thanks for the video.
Can you use the same process using a usb hard drive?
Yes, you can.
Hm... I don't get the yellow. The built-in zigbee module means you have to place the unit in a central location for zigbee to work properly. It's a bit limiting...
not true at all, you can place it wherever you want. But you need more units that acts like a router, for example -> lightning bulbs.
@@Tyk0s88 This is true if you have zigbee devices that play nicely, i.e. the manufacturer has not messed around with zigbee. I've read the zigbee docs and am aware of this. But sadly all manufacturers and especially the cheap Chinese ones (aqara being the prime example for me) have their own view of the zigbee world. They all say zigbee 3.0 but... If you stay in their ecosystem with their own hub (then why have home assistant) you will be just fine. Otherwise home assistant with z2m or zha, the idea of having mains powered zigbee devices acting as routers in a mixed environment (multiple manufacturers) is extremely challenging. Battery devices almost never pair to a mains powered device and if they do, they drop off after a few days and need repairing. I've been down this road and it does not work! I now have 2 router zigbee sticks around the house in addition to the coordinator and all works fine (most of the time). At least I have my coordinator on a 2m USB cable away from walls and other devices. With the yellow I don't see how this can be done... Hence I see no point in the yellow. You will most likely still need routers dotted around.
Is a Home Assistant Yellow have any advantages of just using a Raspberry pi 4
The Home Assistant Yellow has built-in support for Zigbee and Thread/Matter, so if you plan to use any of those technologies in your Smart Home, you don't need any additional hardware to get started. Even if you don't, buying the Yellow helps support the development of new features in Home Assistant and ESPHome.
I had to turn on "Advance Mode" to be able to find the NVMe device.
A home assistant yellow is a device which makes you old and grey before it finds itself on your doorstep. Except of course if you belong to the chosen few. Waiting for 8 months now said to deliver 22 dec22 said deliver 23jan 23 and now status is 3march 23 not that they make the effort of updating you, you have to find that out yourself.
I ordered mine clear back in October of 2021 (fairly early backer of the crowdfunding effort) and it finally arrived on December 30th of 2022. I didn't obsess over how long it took, mainly because of the issues getting parts for them to build them.
Are you actually made that very difficult for yourself if you’d left the bottom on you would’ve been able to hold the bottom where the screw is put the NVR me in and then just tighten the nut up. You didn’t need to take it all that apart like that, I don’t know why you did that