Install Home Assistant on OrangePi 5

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Installing Home Assistant on OrangePi 5 Board

This tutorial will enable the use of Home Assistant on an OrangePi 5 board with the following characteristics:

• OrangePi Debian OS

• OS running on a SDCard

• Home Assistant Supervised Instalation

The steps are a compilation with few modifications from instructions found over the web. Links are at the end.

1. Download Debian image from http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/service-and-support/Orange-pi-5.html

2. Select latest server release. Bullseye on publication of this tutorial

3. Unzip file and burn it to SDCard.

4. Stick SDCard into board and start it. It takes just a few seconds to complete startup.

   • SSH is enabled by default, you can use it to access. Username: orangepi, Password: orangepi

5. Run the following commands as root (sudo su -). Root password orangepi

6. Update packages

   apt update
   apt upgrade

7. Install required packages

   apt install \
   apparmor \
   jq \
   wget \
   curl \
   udisks2 \
   libglib2.0-bin \
   network-manager \
   dbus \
   lsb-release \
   systemd-journal-remote -y

8. Run orangepi-config

   1. System → Bootenv. Add the following lines:

      extraargs=apparmor=1 security=apparmor
      systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0

      The lines enable AppArmor and CGroupV1 respectively

   2. Save it, then Install

   3. Reboot for changes to take effect

9. Alternatively you can execute the following commands

   echo "extraargs=apparmor=1 security=apparmor" >> /boot/orangepiEnv.txt
   sed -i -e "1 s/$/ systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0/" /boot/orangepiEnv.txt
   update-initramfs -u
   reboot

10. After reboot, check

    • Apparmor

      systemctl status apparmor.service

      You should see a line saying active (excited)

    • Cgroup

      findmnt -lo source,target,fstype,options -t cgroup,cgroup2

      You should see many lines with cgroup in source column

11. Run as root sudo su -

12. Install DockerCE

    curl -fsSL get.docker.com | sh

13. Install Home Assistant OS Agent

    1. Download and install the latest version from https://github.com/home-assistant/os-agent/releases/latest. Look for aarch64.deb file. For instance:

       wget https://github.com/home-assistant/os-agent/releases/download/1.5.1/os-agent_1.5.1_linux_aarch64.deb
       dpkg -i os-agent_1.5.1_linux_aarch64.deb

    2. Test instalation by running

       gdbus introspect --system --dest io.hass.os --object-path /io/hass/os

       Some results in JSON format should be returned

14. Install Home Assistant Supervised

    wget https://github.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer/releases/latest/download/homeassistant-supervised.deb
    apt install ./homeassistant-supervised.deb

    1. When prompted, select qemuarm-64 machine type. I’m not sure that’s the best option, but it works.

15. Just wait until instalation is completed (it should take a few seconds). Some warnings are excpected, since this OS is a custom Debian build.

    1. Try to access http://orangepi5.local:8123. It should work, if not use host IP. If it still doesn’t work reboot machine and try again. If it still doesn’t work, go back to step 1 and review everything.

References

• Home Assistant Supervised Installer

• Home Assistant Comunity Forums

• Home Assistant OS Agent

Merci beaucoup pour ce post très très utile !

The cgroup fix didn't work for me. I'm still seeing the warning about the cgroup on HA. I'm running an Orange Pi 3 LTS

My boot/orangepiEnv.txt looks like this:
verbosity=1
bootlogo=false
console=both
disp_mode=1920x1080p60
overlay_prefix=sun50i-h6
rootdev=UUID=42f0b789-8459-423f-8e3b-d894477ae96d
rootfstype=ext4
extraargs=apparmor=1 security=apparmor
systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0
usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u

And the output for findmnt -lo source,target,fstype,options -t cgroup,cgroup2 shows:
SOURCE TARGET FSTYPE OPTIONS
cgroup2 /sys/fs/cgroup cgroup2 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate,memory_recursiveprot

Any ideas?

@vfranchi ,
My orangepiEnv.txt looks like this:

verbosity=1 systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0
bootlogo=false
extraargs=cma=64M
overlay_prefix=rk3588
fdtfile=rockchip/rk3588s-orangepi-5.dtb
rootdev=UUID=8a8804e9-f739-4dd2-952c-04a10c44b702
rootfstype=ext4
extraargs=apparmor=1 security=apparmor
usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u

I don't see any major difference except the first line has both verbosity and cgroup.

My findmnt output is

SOURCE  TARGET                          FSTYPE  OPTIONS
cgroup2 /sys/fs/cgroup/unified          cgroup2 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd          cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,name=systemd
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/pids             cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event       cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer          cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio            cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset           cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/devices          cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb          cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma             cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rdma
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct      cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/memory           cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory

Since you're using OrangePi 3 LTS, maybe the custom Debian build for it is somehow different, and requires other steps

Thanks of the reply @renatoccosta. I figured it out eventually.

For anyone else also trying this out on a OrangePi 3 LTS, I added the unified_cgroup_hierarchy change to the same line as the extraargs, it did the trick.

This is my current /boot/orangepiEnv.txt:

verbosity=1
bootlogo=false
console=both
disp_mode=1920x1080p60
overlay_prefix=sun50i-h6
rootdev=UUID=42f0b789-8459-423f-8e3b-d894477ae96d
rootfstype=ext4
extraargs=apparmor=1 security=apparmor systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0
usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u

findmnt now shows:

SOURCE  TARGET                          FSTYPE  OPTIONS
cgroup2 /sys/fs/cgroup/unified          cgroup2 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd          cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,name=systemd
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct      cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/pids             cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio            cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/devices          cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset           cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event       cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/memory           cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer          cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma             cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rdma
cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb          cgroup  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb

Forgive my ignorance, first time HA user here. But originally I configured HA with armbian, then I shortly realized that was a mistake because I didn't install supervised, and that's not supported on armbian anyway. But after following this guide, I still don't see a supervisor link in my webui.

@ZenMasta
I might be wrong here, but I don't think there is a Supervisor link on the Settings page there. What do you see when you go into the About option? Mine shows like this:

@ZenMasta, Supervisor install is not supported in any installation but original Debian 11 (without any changes), but that doesn't mean you can't do it in other distros.

An easy way to check if your installation is correct is the Config -> About page, like @vfranchi mentioned or if you have SSH access try the command ha supervisor info.

You should also be able to install add-ons

@ZenMasta I might be wrong here, but I don't think there is a Supervisor link on the Settings page there. What do you see when you go into the About option? Mine shows like this:

I was just going based off of old youtube videos from when there used to be an icon on the sidebar. But I'm generally good now. Just noob misunderstanding of the UI changes. But you can see that I have addons there so all is well.

@renatoccosta, thank you so much for putting this together. I bought an Orange Pi 5 Plus and used Debian 12 (bookworm), as that's what HA requires now. I ran into two issues/differences which I thought I'd add here for anyone else who runs into this.

1. Using this similar article focused on Armbian, I was able to bypass the check requiring stock Debian (not Orange Pi Debian). This just required changing the Pretty Name property of the /etc/os-release file to "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)". This is a new check that was recently added, and for now, they just check the Pretty Name property in this file. Orange Pi Debian should work just fine (I think).

2. During installation, I was receiving an error regarding systemd-resolved not being available or not working (I wish I recorded the errors). At first, I tried skipping this check, but that wasn't the right idea. Instead, I just followed the suggestion from the OS to run the supervised install command with the --fix-broken flag, which ended up replacing another package (I don't remember which :) with systemd-resolved.

Thanks!

KC

I followed the instructions to install Home Assistant on Debian Bullseye and got this error on step 14:

root@orangepi5:~# apt install ./homeassistant-supervised.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'homeassistant-supervised' instead of './homeassistant-supervised.deb'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 homeassistant-supervised : Depends: systemd-resolved
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Any idea?

Update: tried with Debian Bookworm and got this error on step 14:

[error] Orange Pi 1.1.6 Bookworm is not supported!

Then I manage to trick the installer changing my /etc/os-release with the content:

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy

Tried to install again and this time seems to work.

@rpanachi, it looks like you got it to work, but you ran into the same two issues that I did. I'll simplify my fix instructions for anyone else who runs into this. Workarounds to get this to work in OrangePi Debian 12 (Bookworm):

1. Before you start, modify the /etc/os-release file and change the first line to:
   PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"

This convinces Home Assistant that you are running a standard copy of Debian 12

2. (Step 14 in installation instructions) Run the installer with the --fix-broken flag to resolve any issues with systemd-resolved:
   apt install --fix-broken ./homeassistant-supervised.deb

How do I update Home Assistant and Supervisor using Orangepi 5?

Unfortunately the --fix-broken did not do the trick for me:

root@orangepi3-lts:~# apt install --fix-broken ./homeassistant-supervised.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'homeassistant-supervised' instead of './homeassistant-supervised.deb'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
homeassistant-supervised : Depends: systemd-resolved
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@orangepi3-lts:~#

Any other ideas?

@bwcoetzer Make sure youre on bookworm, upgrade your OS or re-install - i had the same issue, moove to bookworm, do the trick noted above to change the name to trick the HA installer. I just did an upgrade of the OS following some random guide. After that, the --fix-broken resolved the issue for me.

@bwcoetzer another thing you can try is to use dpkg and tell it to ignore the required dependency, like this:
sudo dpkg -i --ignore-depends=systemd-resolved ./homeassistant-supervised.deb

I found this on the last comment here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/os-agent-and-systemd-resolved-are-missing-at-clean-installation-supervised-raspberry-os-64-bit/585914/2

I ended up switching to Ubuntu Jammy to start working on rknn2 with Frigate, so what I ended up doing there is extracting the homeassistant-supervised.deb package and changed the dependency from systemd-resolved to systemd. Then I repackaged it and the install went fine. This is probably the cleanest way to do it, but takes a little more work learning how to extract and repackage a .deb file.

@kcembrey Thank you very much for this help. This allowed me to install Debian Bullseye on an OrangePi3 LTS with only one warning ([warn] Could not find /etc/default/grub or /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt failed to switch to cgroup v1) but the instance booted up perfectly and after setting down reported:
Supervisor: | Connected
Supported: | Supported
Healthy: | Healthy

Super excited by this outcome!

Today, i got an 'unhealthy system - not privileged' - has anyone run across this?

edit - I issued a restart of the supervisor and it resolved the issue, pretty strange but it was okay after -

Hi, Thanks for your work!.
A few comments though.

1. add line to u-boot env:
   extraargs=apparmor=1 security=apparmor systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0
2. create (if not exist) docker group, and add docker group to user:
   sudo groupadd docker
   sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
3. logout (or better ) reboot the card

With these additions I installed HA-supervised on orangepi zero 2w card. Thank you once more!

OMG it worked! At first I had some a problem with the "System → Bootenv.", but I put both commands at the line and it worked as Vfranchi suggested. Thanks a lot!

Pretty sure the unhealthy system - not privileged error is due to startup order of the container images upon initial install of homeassistant-supervised

This is startup order post-install, error is being thrown on trying to install add-ons

# docker ps                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              24-05-04 - 3:58:28
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                                       COMMAND               CREATED             STATUS             PORTS                                   NAMES
2db5da337c36   ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemuarm-64-homeassistant:2024.5.1    "/init"               7 minutes ago       Up 7 minutes                                               homeassistant
46ff87b51dd6   ghcr.io/home-assistant/aarch64-hassio-multicast:2024.03.0   "/init"               About an hour ago   Up About an hour                                           hassio_multicast
bd0b8d59ee94   ghcr.io/home-assistant/aarch64-hassio-observer:2023.06.0    "/usr/bin/observer"   About an hour ago   Up About an hour   0.0.0.0:4357->80/tcp, :::4357->80/tcp   hassio_observer
1149626d75dc   ghcr.io/home-assistant/aarch64-hassio-audio:2023.12.0       "/init"               About an hour ago   Up About an hour                                           hassio_audio
93e38e848b0c   ghcr.io/home-assistant/aarch64-hassio-dns:2024.04.0         "/init"               About an hour ago   Up About an hour                                           hassio_dns
abe70c7d9a46   ghcr.io/home-assistant/aarch64-hassio-cli:2024.04.1         "/init"               About an hour ago   Up About an hour                                           hassio_cli
091da0927469   ghcr.io/home-assistant/aarch64-hassio-supervisor:latest     "/init"               About an hour ago   Up About an hour                                           hassio_supervisor

After a restart, add-ons can now be installed, and container startup order now shows supervisor -> observer -> homeassistant, rather than homeassistant being last on the chain

# docker ps                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              24-05-04 - 4:03:05
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                                       COMMAND               CREATED             STATUS          PORTS                                   NAMES
0bfbefdedbcc   ghcr.io/home-assistant/aarch64-hassio-multicast:2024.03.0   "/init"               40 seconds ago      Up 39 seconds                                           hassio_multicast
2f14ace815bb   ghcr.io/home-assistant/aarch64-hassio-audio:2023.12.0       "/init"               41 seconds ago      Up 40 seconds                                           hassio_audio
438f35d0ea1d   ghcr.io/home-assistant/aarch64-hassio-dns:2024.04.0         "/init"               41 seconds ago      Up 40 seconds                                           hassio_dns
e9247c068080   ghcr.io/home-assistant/aarch64-hassio-cli:2024.04.1         "/init"               42 seconds ago      Up 41 seconds                                           hassio_cli
2db5da337c36   ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemuarm-64-homeassistant:2024.5.1    "/init"               11 minutes ago      Up 45 seconds                                           homeassistant
bd0b8d59ee94   ghcr.io/home-assistant/aarch64-hassio-observer:2023.06.0    "/usr/bin/observer"   About an hour ago   Up 45 seconds   0.0.0.0:4357->80/tcp, :::4357->80/tcp   hassio_observer
091da0927469   ghcr.io/home-assistant/aarch64-hassio-supervisor:latest     "/init"               About an hour ago   Up 45 seconds                                           hassio_supervisor

However, i might be wrong, but it does work

I had an issue while trying to install:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'homeassistant-supervised' instead of './homeassistant-supervised.deb'
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  homeassistant-supervised
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 61 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/7,440 B of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 /tmp/homeassistant-supervised.deb homeassistant-supervised all 1.8.0 [7,440 B]
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package homeassistant-supervised.
(Reading database ... 219022 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../homeassistant-supervised.deb ...
[warn]
[warn] If you want more control over your own system, run
[warn] Home Assistant as a VM or run Home Assistant Core
[warn] via a Docker container.
[warn]
Adding 'diversion of /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf to /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf.real by homeassistant-supervised'
Adding 'diversion of /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/default to /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/default.real by homeassistant-supervised'
Adding 'diversion of /etc/docker/daemon.json to /etc/docker/daemon.json.real by homeassistant-supervised'
Adding 'diversion of /etc/network/interfaces to /etc/network/interfaces.real by homeassistant-supervised'
Leaving 'diversion of /etc/systemd/resolved.conf to /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.real by homeassistant-supervised'
Unpacking homeassistant-supervised (1.8.0) ...
Setting up homeassistant-supervised (1.8.0) ...
[info] Reload systemd
[info] Restarting NetworkManager
[info] Enable systemd-resolved
dpkg: error processing package homeassistant-supervised (--configure):
 installed homeassistant-supervised package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 homeassistant-supervised
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Managed to fix this by first removing the package sudo dpkg --remove homeassistant-supervised and then running sudo apt reinstall systemd-resolved

I had an issue while trying to install:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'homeassistant-supervised' instead of './homeassistant-supervised.deb'
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  homeassistant-supervised
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 61 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/7,440 B of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 /tmp/homeassistant-supervised.deb homeassistant-supervised all 1.8.0 [7,440 B]
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package homeassistant-supervised.
(Reading database ... 219022 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../homeassistant-supervised.deb ...
[warn]
[warn] If you want more control over your own system, run
[warn] Home Assistant as a VM or run Home Assistant Core
[warn] via a Docker container.
[warn]
Adding 'diversion of /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf to /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf.real by homeassistant-supervised'
Adding 'diversion of /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/default to /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/default.real by homeassistant-supervised'
Adding 'diversion of /etc/docker/daemon.json to /etc/docker/daemon.json.real by homeassistant-supervised'
Adding 'diversion of /etc/network/interfaces to /etc/network/interfaces.real by homeassistant-supervised'
Leaving 'diversion of /etc/systemd/resolved.conf to /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.real by homeassistant-supervised'
Unpacking homeassistant-supervised (1.8.0) ...
Setting up homeassistant-supervised (1.8.0) ...
[info] Reload systemd
[info] Restarting NetworkManager
[info] Enable systemd-resolved
dpkg: error processing package homeassistant-supervised (--configure):
 installed homeassistant-supervised package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 homeassistant-supervised
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Managed to fix this by first removing the package sudo dpkg --remove homeassistant-supervised and then running sudo apt reinstall systemd-resolved

@zhekch You could try running /var/lib/dpkg/info/homeassistant-supervised.postinst directly and it should tell you what the error output is since dpkg consumes it

Since Corona we don t trust Raspberry Pi anymore. It is highly desirable to have Home Assistant on the Orange Pi 5 as an alternative.