home-assistant/supervised-installer

[!WARNING] This installation method is unsupported with the Home Assistant OS 2025.12.0 release. See the Deprecating Core and Supervised installation methods, and 32-bit systems blog post for more information.

[!IMPORTANT] This installation method is for advanced users only!

The Supervised Debian installation is an opinionated appliance. That means it has many dependencies and bundles default configuration files for system services!

Make sure you understand the requirements.

Install Home Assistant Supervised

This installation method provides the full Home Assistant experience on a regular operating system. This means, all components from the Home Assistant method are used, except for the Home Assistant Operating System. This system will run the Home Assistant Supervisor. The Supervisor is not just an application, it is a full appliance that manages the whole system. It will clean up, repair or reset settings to default if they no longer match expected values.

By not using the Home Assistant Operating System, the user is responsible for making sure that all required components are installed and maintained. Required components and their versions will change over time. Home Assistant Supervised is provided as-is as a foundation for community supported do-it-yourself solutions. We only accept bug reports for issues that have been reproduced on a freshly installed, fully updated Debian with no additional packages.

This method is considered advanced and should only be used if one is an expert in managing a Linux operating system, Docker and networking.

Installation

Run the following commands as root (su - or sudo su - on machines with sudo installed):

Step 1: Transition from the default Debian networking service ifupdown to NetworkManager and systemd-resolved, run the following commands:

apt install \
network-manager \
systemd-resolved

At this point you won't have Internet access because systemd-resolved doesn't know about your DNS setup. To restore Internet, we need to fully transition the network setup to NetworkManager. There was a hint in the output of the previous command:

The following network interfaces were found in /etc/network/interfaces
which means they are currently configured by ifupdown:
- enp1s0
If you want to manage those interfaces with NetworkManager instead
remove their configuration from /etc/network/interfaces.

The network interface name might be different depending on your setup. For a default network setup using DHCP the following commands work:

systemctl restart systemd-resolved.service && \
systemctl disable --now networking.service && \
mv /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces.disabled && \
systemctl restart NetworkManager

[!NOTE] Your system might have a new IP address at this point, probably because the DHCP server id used by NetworkManager appears to be different.

Step 2: Install Docker-CE, OS Agent and Supervised dependencies which aren't part of the package dependencies with this command:

apt install \
curl \
udisks2

Step 3: Install Docker-CE with the following command:

curl -fsSL get.docker.com | sh

Step 4: Install the OS-Agent:

Instructions for installing the OS-Agent can be found here

Step 5: Install the Home Assistant Supervised Debian Package:

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

Supported Machine types

• generic-x86-64
• odroid-c2
• odroid-c4
• odroid-n2
• qemuarm-64 (use this for any aarch64 machine)
• qemux86-64
• raspberrypi3-64
• raspberrypi4-64
• raspberrypi5-64
• khadas-vim3

Configuration

The default path for our $DATA_SHARE is /var/lib/homeassistant (used to be /usr/share/hassio). This path is used to store all home assistant related things.

You can reconfigure this path during installation with

DATA_SHARE=/my/own/homeassistant dpkg --force-confdef --force-confold -i homeassistant-supervised.deb

Troubleshooting

If something's going wrong, use journalctl -f to get your system logs. If you are not familiar with Linux and how you can fix issues, we recommend to use our Home Assistant OS.