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

Hello, please help me, installed Orange PI 5.
root@orangepi5:~# 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' The following NEW packages will be installed: homeassistant-supervised 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/7,492 B of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 /root/homeassistant-supervised.deb homeassistant-supervised all 3.0.0 [7,492 B] Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package homeassistant-supervised. (Reading database ... 42855 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] [error] Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) is not supported! dpkg: error processing archive /root/homeassistant-supervised.deb (--unpack): new homeassistant-supervised package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 [info] Undo divert on abort-install No diversion 'diversion of /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf to /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf.real by homeassistant-supervised', none removed. No diversion 'diversion of /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/default to /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/default.real by homeassistant-supervised', none removed. No diversion 'diversion of /etc/docker/daemon.json to /etc/docker/daemon.json.real by homeassistant-supervised', none removed. No diversion 'diversion of /etc/network/interfaces to /etc/network/interfaces.real by homeassistant-supervised', none removed. [info] Resetting debconf selections [info] Removal complete, due to the complexity of this installation method, [info] you will need to manually remove the containers created by the supervisor Errors were encountered while processing: /root/homeassistant-supervised.deb N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/root/homeassistant-supervised.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Hello, please help me, installed Orange PI 5. root@orangepi5:~# 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' The following NEW packages will be installed: homeassistant-supervised 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/7,492 B of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 /root/homeassistant-supervised.deb homeassistant-supervised all 3.0.0 [7,492 B] Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package homeassistant-supervised. (Reading database ... 42855 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] [error] Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) is not supported! dpkg: error processing archive /root/homeassistant-supervised.deb (--unpack): new homeassistant-supervised package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 [info] Undo divert on abort-install No diversion 'diversion of /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf to /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf.real by homeassistant-supervised', none removed. No diversion 'diversion of /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/default to /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/default.real by homeassistant-supervised', none removed. No diversion 'diversion of /etc/docker/daemon.json to /etc/docker/daemon.json.real by homeassistant-supervised', none removed. No diversion 'diversion of /etc/network/interfaces to /etc/network/interfaces.real by homeassistant-supervised', none removed. [info] Resetting debconf selections [info] Removal complete, due to the complexity of this installation method, [info] you will need to manually remove the containers created by the supervisor Errors were encountered while processing: /root/homeassistant-supervised.deb N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/root/homeassistant-supervised.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Hi @ronaldokarmo. This error is because you're running the installer in a root shell. You need to run the installer as a regular user using sudo. Here's a topic in the Home Assistant forums that should help: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-supervisored-installation-failed/642795/4

Olá. Excelente tópico. Sabe me dizer se com estes procedimentos o sistema tbm vai rodar no Orange Pi4 LTS?

@lchamiso Late to reply here. I believe these instructions will be very similar for the Orange Pi 4 LTS, but I don't have one to test.

Alternatively, there's a prebuilt image with Armbian and HomeAssistant here, or instructions on building it yourself here.

Hello, please help me, error before command sudo update-initramfs -u
ln: failed to create hard link '/boot/initrd.img-5.10.160-rockchip-rk3588.dpkg-bak' => '/boot/initrd.img-5.10.160-rockchip-rk3588': Operation not permitted

Any chance to install clean HAOS (HA deprecating Core and Supervised installation methods from 2025.12)?