ccc4b9b040
* Make usage of top-level make easier, drop 'all' target Make it easier when using top-level make - proxy all possible commands to Buildroot make and only wrap build for individual target builds. This way it's still possible to run e.g. 'make ova' which would read the defconfig and run the build, while we can also use the top-level make in the same way as it's in vanilla Buildroot. Target 'all' was dropped in favor of Buildroot 'make' without any arguments - as it's fairly pointless to run all builds sequentially. With the current 19 targets it would take about a day even on a decent hardware and the build artifacts would be lost in the process. * Show warning only if BR2_DEFCONFIG changes * Wait for 10s or input if defconfig differs
Home Assistant Operating System
Home Assistant Operating System (formerly HassOS) is a Linux based operating system optimized to host Home Assistant and its Add-ons.
Home Assistant Operating System uses Docker as its container engine. By default it deploys the Home Assistant Supervisor as a container. Home Assistant Supervisor in turn uses the Docker container engine to control Home Assistant Core and Add-Ons in separate containers. Home Assistant Operating System is not based on a regular Linux distribution like Ubuntu. It is built using Buildroot and it is optimized to run Home Assistant. It targets single board compute (SBC) devices like the Raspberry Pi or ODROID but also supports x86-64 systems with UEFI.
Features
- Lightweight and memory-efficient
- Minimized I/O
- Over The Air (OTA) updates
- Offline updates
- Modular using Docker container engine
Supported hardware
- Nabu Casa
- Raspberry Pi
- Hardkernel ODROID
- Asus Tinker Board
- Generic x86-64 (e.g. Intel NUC)
- Virtual appliances
See the full list and specific models here
Getting Started
If you just want to use Home Assistant the official getting started guide and installation instructions take you through how to download Home Assistant Operating System and get it running on your machine.
If you're interested in finding out more about Home Assistant Operating System and how it works read on...
Development
If you don't have experience with embedded systems, Buildroot or the build process for Linux distributions it is recommended to read up on these topics first (e.g. Bootlin has excellent resources).
The Home Assistant Operating System documentation can be found on the Home Assistant Developer Docs website.
Components
- Bootloader:
- Operating System:
- Buildroot LTS Linux
- File Systems:
- Container Platform:
- Docker Engine for running Home Assistant components in containers
- Updates:
- RAUC for Over The Air (OTA) and USB updates
- Security:
- AppArmor Linux kernel security module
Development builds
The Development build GitHub Action Workflow is a manually triggered workflow which creates Home Assistant OS development builds. The development builds are available at https://os-artifacts.home-assistant.io/index.html.