Tag: Proxmox

This post is a follow on to my previous post where I installed Home Assistant OS as a virtual machine under Proxmox. I did this on my development PC to see if Proxmox was for me before I moved the VM to my main home automation server. Now that I am happy with Proxmox running Home Assistant, it’s time to upgrade my main server to Proxmox and set up Home Assistant on it. While I could have just done a fresh installation like I did in my previous post very easily, I decided to test out Proxmox’s clustering options that allow the VM to be moved to another PC in the cluster. If this option interests you, read on.

Continue reading “Proxmox – migrate your Home Assistant VM to a new PC via a cluster”

In a previous post I detailed installing Proxmox on an old PC to use as Home Assistant server with Home Assistant’s Virtual Machine image.  Today I will go over some changes and tweaks I have done since setting up my Proxmox server. Continue reading “Home Assistant on Proxmox – next steps”

In a previous post a while back, I documented how I installed Home Assistant Supervised in Docker under Ubuntu. Since then, that method of install has become the not recommended way to install Home Assistant, as the Home Assistant team have stopped supporting that style of install. While I still run one system like that in a friend’s house, I decided it was time to change up the way my system was set up and have gone with Home Assistant in a VM under Proxmox. Continue reading “Set up a Home Assistant VM on Proxmox”