nlaredo Posted February 11 Posted February 11 (edited) I was curious if this was possible at all, and I grabbed a generic x86-64 home assistant boot image from github and tried to boot on my eisy. In case this helps anyone else, booting from the sd card slot doesn't appear possible and the usb ports on the side don't support boot either, but the one on front actually booted successfully and while I haven't tried it yet, it would appear that I could add a m.2 nvme and install home assistant there and dual boot through the bios boot menu on the eisy. I've been using Michael's software for so long I don't know how he'd feel about this, but it's a really exciting development for me and once I get my usb plm working again (failed again as is usual), it'll be fun to compare the control of the system under both environments. If you're not a linux and/or bsd expert, I don't recommend following down my path, but I was excited that it worked and I wanted to share that at least the front usb port is bootable in case anyone else has been curious about escaping the confines of java. Edited February 11 by nlaredo added screenshot Quote
nlaredo Posted February 11 Author Posted February 11 The out of box experience is very nice running on eisy (from 256GB sdcard on the front usb) -- it found all sorts of devices available to control and show status for. My Google TV streamer is actually playing youtube and I can pause it from the UI here and I'm looking forward to testing insteon support when I get a replacement USB PLM: Quote
nlaredo Posted February 12 Author Posted February 12 Since yesterday, I've installed a 1TB nvme drive with home assistant pre-installed and if I plug in a keyboard at boot, I can select whether I boot eisy as eisy or as home assistant by changing which device boots first. I also didn't realize you could also use VMs from the normal eisy install and run home assistant that way, so I guess I'll have to figure that out too, but it's very nice to see eisy is just a regular intel x86-64 box that does EFI boot as expected. After adding more devices like onvif cameras and network storage I think I understand why people use home assistant now. Quote
Geddy Posted February 12 Posted February 12 @nlaredo this was something discussed about a year ago. I know a lot of people seemed to jump on it when first "announced", but not sure how many are doing it currently. And the recent update on Polisy/eisy might have changed things so be careful how you proceed. Old post with information of how to do this midway through the topic. Quote
nlaredo Posted February 13 Author Posted February 13 I read through that thread earlier and decided that it was "too hard" to set up a vm compared to how easy it was to change a single bios option by pressing a key at boot. Sure I give up being able to get both software stacks at once, but longer term, I think if I can repair yet another broken PLM and have IoX give me my link table, I might be able to go into home assistant and get full control in the way I've wanted it to happen on isy/eisy in the past and it never has been possible. Thinking in reverse, if the main application runs in Java, there should not be a lot preventing me from running a docker container with java and the entire eisy environment in less overhead than running a full VM under freebsd. Quote
junkycosmos Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago Interesting idea here. I agree about the confines of Java and also long allegiance to Team UDI. This is an interesting project here - ultimately, I agree. It would be nice to be able to run both in parallel on the EISY - but portability is key for redundancy… Can we talk redundancy here for a minute? How portable is the back up of Home Assistant in this configuration? I.E if the EISY has a hiccup can you get your Home Assistant back up, running on another piece of hardware easily? Quote
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