Homeassistant integration

[okdah]

I believe integrating Home Assistant with HexOS could be a game-changer for the operating system, offering functionality that is sorely lacking in almost all other OS platforms today. A Home Assistant integration would allow users to monitor and manage their NAS more effectively. Imagine being able to track critical metrics such as system uptime, array health, disk health checks, and the overall status of your storage systems — all from within Home Assistant.

Furthermore, adding control features would significantly enhance the user experience. It would be fantastic if users could automate tasks like rebooting or stopping/starting applications, VMs, or containers directly through Home Assistant. Additionally, automating disk spin-downs during off-peak hours for power savings would be a powerful and eco-friendly feature.

The potential of Home Assistant integration is vast, and it's difficult to fully capture all the possibilities in a single topic. However, the core idea is simple: having such an integration, with continuous updates and new features, would be a major advantage for HexOS. While most other operating systems either lack similar functionality or offer only basic, limited capabilities, HexOS could stand out by providing a more comprehensive, user-friendly, and flexible solution.

[andredelange]

☝️ That!

[Zer0Log1c]

I hope Home Assistant integration is pretty high on the 'To-Do' list given its prevalence in the community and seemingly frequent pairing with TrueNAS. It'd be my first request as far as home automation handling goes after some searching

[Blair Young]

Honestly I'm surprised to see so few replies. I would have thought a lot more people would be asking for HA integration.

Hex OS popped up on my radar because of the LTT video. Until then it was a bridge too far to play with. But with some hand holding and user friendly features I'm jumping in.

That being said, as a total newbie currently running Home assistant using virtual box on my daily driver windows 10 machine, I was hoping Hex OS could be used as a hypervisor, run windows 10/11 for daily use, with home assistant and Frigate running in separate containers.

Previously I had to have a separate SFF Ubuntu machine running frigate which was always clunky and unreliable.

Is this realistic or am I misunderstanding how this could work?

[LuciferMstar]

23 minutes ago, Blair Young said:

Honestly I'm surprised to see so few replies. I would have thought a lot more people would be asking for HA integration.

Hex OS popped up on my radar because of the LTT video. Until then it was a bridge too far to play with. But with some hand holding and user friendly features I'm jumping in.

That being said, as a total newbie currently running Home assistant using virtual box on my daily driver windows 10 machine, I was hoping Hex OS could be used as a hypervisor, run windows 10/11 for daily use, with home assistant and Frigate running in separate containers.

Previously I had to have a separate SFF Ubuntu machine running frigate which was always clunky and unreliable.

Is this realistic or am I misunderstanding how this could work?

I totally agreed with you...would help me to move out of my current TrueNas setup.

[Blair Young]

15 hours ago, LuciferMstar said:

I totally agreed with you...would help me to move out of my current TrueNas setup.

But is that how it could potentially work?

Outside of following a step by step tutorial setting up Home Assistant, and later fumbling my way through Linux to get Frigate running I'm a newbie.

Does Hex OS have the potential to be my one stop shop for everything running on one machine?

 

I guess that question is hardware dependant but I'm hoping I should be ok with my current machine:

i7 7700k 

32GB RAM

M.2 256GB Boot Disk

8x 8TB Exos SAS drives

 

And arriving soon:

9300-8I LSI SAS HBA

(I saw a deal from a reputable seller for $30/drive, didnt see that they were SAS drives, and promptly had to learn about HBA's 😅)

 

For Configuration:

From what I've read either 2no. vdev, each with 4no. drives in raidz2 with 2no. parity drives.

or

1no. vdev with 8no. drives in raidz2 with 2no. parity drives.

 

Again - I need to do a lot more reading this is all new to me.

[Ernie]

With easy VM management on their roadmap, I could see that being a way things would work. I’d like to spin up a retro gaming VM that would work for some lightweight gaming. 

[glc]

VM would be super cool to have a one stop server but if you just want to monitor your NAS from inside HA check out the truenas integration https://community.home-assistant.io/t/truenas-integration/410431. should pass through all your normal metrics that you would expect as entities as well as a couple of services.  

[Smir]

1 hour ago, glc said:

VM would be super cool to have a one stop server but if you just want to monitor your NAS from inside HA check out the truenas integration https://community.home-assistant.io/t/truenas-integration/410431. should pass through all your normal metrics that you would expect as entities as well as a couple of services.  

this is the way

[chrizz]

HA is the number 1 open source project by contributor on github. It naturally should be very high up in my opinion.

[Theo]

Had already installed the HA app through truenas and ran into countless issues, it was unusable! plus had been so long since i'd not be running bare metal / HA OS that i completely forgot about the lack of Add ons and other key features, which was a another blocker.

Thus what would be amazing is a 'One-Click' option for Home Assistant BUT the option to install either as:

• VM (HA OS)
• App (Container)

That way, users have the choice, and could be presented with the pro's / con's of both up front!

[Theo]

Additionally, i managed to get HA OS up and running in a VM already using THIS amazing guide on the HA Forum for anyone looking to get set up now.