SYSTEM: Home Assistant installation | QNAP

HOME ASSISTANT INSTALLATION ON QNAP

As we have all components ready it is time to install and configure Home Assistant. I am goin gto setup it as virtual machine on my QNAP NAS, so in general, this should work on any VM system. I will describe it later on how to do it on different platforms (I am waiting for my Raspberry Pi4 hardware).

PREREQUISITIES

1. QNAP NAS set up and Virtualization Station up and running;
2. Home Assistant VMDK image downloaded from [images] and converted to img file (you can use converter embedded into Virtualization Station). 
   
   
   

STEP 1: creating of the VM

1. Create folder to store your virtual hard drive and place converted image in it. I use separated resource on my QNAP (/VM) amd for this VM I have created ha folder. The VM share is mounted on my laptop as V: drive.

   

   
   
2. Navigate to Virtualization Station and press "Create" button

   
3. In new window choose settings as below. You need to adapt them depending on your hardware (mostly number of cores and RAM)

   

   
   
   

   
   
4. Setup VNC password (bottom of the dialog window) and unselect "Restrict VM console access"
5. VM is ready to create so press "OK".
6. Once the machine is created, go to its setting and modify:

   

   
   
7. Go to snapshots and delete (if any):

   

   
   
8. G oto Storage and set disk size to 150GB and interface to VirtIO

   

   
   
9. Connect USB devices

   

   

   
   

   
   
10. Now, the system is ready to start. Press "ON" button to do so.

    

    
    

    
    

    
    
11.  You can check IP address of your Home Assistant as shown below.

    

    
    

    
    

    
    
12. We will need this IP to access web-interface of Home Assistant. Check my next post soon!