Home Assistant Supervised installation for i386

on Atom N270 Netbook MSI Wind U100

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Инструкция на русском языке доступна ЗДЕСЬ: https://github.com/xvrfr/homeassistant/blob/main/README_RU.md

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1. Installing Debian 11 netinst non-free

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Disk partitioning:

Automatic, separate partitions for /, /var, /tmp, /home

Users (just for reference):

root: pj***r3

nu100:

GUI and system utilities:

Uncheck everything.

Waiting for installation process to complete, reboot system.

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2. First console login (as root)

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Connecting to the Internet

WiFi driver, wpasupplicant and wireless-tools have already been implemented into netinst non-free:

Shell command:

ip a

So, now we know that there were 3 interfaces found in our system:

lo     - virual loopback
enp1s0 - cable LAN, down
wlp2s0 - wireless, down

Network interfaces are down, and as we will connect via cable LAN, we should enable it first:

ip link set enp1s0 up

After enabling LAN we have to start DHCP-client:

dhclient enp1s0

Internet via LAN is ready to go, but to have the connection persistent after reboots we need to append to /etc/network/interfaces:

echo "" >> /etc/network/interfaces
echo "auto enp1s0" >> /etc/network/interfaces
echo "iface enp1s0 inet dhcp" >> /etc/network/interfaces

Setting up Internet via WiFi is not as complicated in fact:

wpa_passphrase "YOUR_SSID" password > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
cp /lib/systemd/system/wpa_supplicant.service /etc/systemd/system/
systemctl enable wpa_supplicant.service

And append /etc/network/interfaces for persistence as we did it for LAN:

echo "" >> /etc/network/interfaces
echo "auto wlp2s0" >> /etc/network/interfaces
echo "iface wlp2s0 inet dhcp" >> /etc/network/interfaces

Next, we are to edit wireless service file with any file editor, e.g. nano:

nano /etc/systemd/system/wpa_supplicant.service

And make its part look like this:

ExecStart=/sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -s -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlp2s0
Restart=always
...
#Alias=dbus-fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.service

Advanced system setup

We need to install sudo and openssh-server:

apt update
apt upgrade
apt install sudo acpi-support vbetool openssh-server 

Adding user nu100 we created during installation to sudo group:

usermod -aG sudo nu100

Great! Now we can (and must) use nu100 user for system login and in remote connection credentials, e.g. ssh-client.

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Tweaks

For user system folders to be named in English ("Desktop" but not "Рабочий стол") we need to execute re-creating by deleting shell command for every user:

LC_ALL=C xdg-user-dirs-update --force

But this command is to be executed only after GUI (Gnome, KDE, Xfce и др.) being installed, something we are not going to do in this manual.

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🌜 For our laptop not to go sleep after closing display shell (lid):

curl -sL "https://github.com/xvrfr/homeassistant/raw/main/files/system/logind.conf" > /etc/systemd/logind.conf

Alternative file installation method via echo command

echo "# /etc/systemd/logind.conf" > /etc/systemd/logind.conf
echo "[Login]" >> /etc/systemd/logind.conf
echo "HandleLidSwitch=ignore" >> /etc/systemd/logind.conf
echo "HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore" >> /etc/systemd/logind.conf
echo "LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=no" >> /etc/systemd/logind.conf

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🔅 For our laptop to turn off display LED after closing display shell (lid):

curl -sL "https://github.com/xvrfr/homeassistant/raw/main/files/system/lid-button" > /etc/acpi/events/lid-button

Next step:

touch /etc/acpi/lid.sh
chmod +x /etc/acpi/lid.sh

curl -sL "https://github.com/xvrfr/homeassistant/raw/main/files/system/lid.sh" > /etc/acpi/lid.sh

Alternative file installation method via echo command

echo "event=button/lid.*" > /etc/acpi/events/lid-button
echo "action=/etc/acpi/lid.sh" >> /etc/acpi/events/lid-button

touch /etc/acpi/lid.sh
chmod +x /etc/acpi/lid.sh

echo '#!/bin/bash' >  /etc/acpi/lid.sh
echo "" >> /etc/acpi/lid.sh
echo "grep -q close /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state" >> /etc/acpi/lid.sh
echo "" >> /etc/acpi/lid.sh
echo "if [ $? = 0 ]; then" >> /etc/acpi/lid.sh
echo "    sleep 0.2" >> /etc/acpi/lid.sh
echo "echo \"vbetool dpms off\"" >> /etc/acpi/lid.sh
echo "fi" >> /etc/acpi/lid.sh
echo "" >> /etc/acpi/lid.sh
echo "grep -q open /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state" >> /etc/acpi/lid.sh
echo "" >> /etc/acpi/lid.sh
echo "if [ $? = 0 ]; then" >> /etc/acpi/lid.sh
echo "    vbetool dpms on" >> /etc/acpi/lid.sh
echo "fi" >> /etc/acpi/lid.sh

To check file creation (optional) use command:

nano /etc/acpi/lid.sh

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3. Installing HomeAssistant Supervised

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Originally:

https://sprut.ai/article/ustanovka-home-assistant-na-netbuki-i-starye-pk

sudo apt install software-properties-common python3.9 python3.9-dev python3.9-venv python3-pip libffi-dev libssl-dev
sudo apt autoremove -y 
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin

Getting dependencies:

sudo apt install apparmor-utils apt-transport-https avahi-daemon ca-certificates curl dbus jq network-manager socat bash 

Disabling ModemManager

systemctl disable ModemManager 

systemctl stop ModemManager 

Installing Docker:

sudo apt install -y docker.io

Installing HomeAssistant OS Agent:

sudo apt install wget unzip udisks2
wget https://github.com/xvrfr/homeassistant/raw/main/os-agent_1.2.2_linux_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i os-agent_1.2.2_linux_i386.deb

And finally! Execute modified Supervised installation script:

wget https://github.com/xvrfr/homeassistant/raw/main/supervised-installer.fixed.sh
chmod 777 supervised-installer.fixed.sh
sudo /home/nu100/supervised-installer.fixed.sh

If the script completes without errors, there will be web address to connect to HomeAssistant.

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Pay attention that the first start will take about 20 minutes, be patient, please.

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Many thanks to Kanga-who for the initial script. The rest parts found:

URL_HA="https://github.com/home-assistant/cli/releases/download/4.15.1/ha_i386"    
URL_BIN_HASSIO="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/remlabm/hassio-installer/master/files/hassio-supervisor"
URL_BIN_APPARMOR="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/remlabm/hassio-installer/master/files/hassio-apparmor"
URL_SERVICE_HASSIO="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/remlabm/hassio-installer/master/files/hassio-supervisor.service"
URL_SERVICE_APPARMOR="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/remlabm/hassio-installer/master/files/hassio-apparmor.service"