Installing Proxmox VE on N150 NUC + HASSIO

Create a Proxmox Bootable USB Drive

1. Download Balena Etcher and install it (Proxmox VE 9.0 ISO Installer)
2. Download the latest Proxmox VE ISO-Image and flash Proxmox ISO on USB-Stick

Install Proxmox on N150 Mini PC (NUC)

1. Plug in the USB Drive you just created in your Mini PC
2. Plug in an Ethernet cable, Keyboard and Monitor
3. Power it on, and navigate to BIOS (Usually by pressing DEL key during boot)
   • Make sure Secure Boot is disabled 
   • Make sure Virtualization Technology is enabled under (navigate to the CPU Configuration under Advanced tab) and Save (BIOS/UEFI)

1. put USB-Stick and start it will presented with the Proxmox Welcome Screen
2. Select Install Proxmox VE (Graphical)
3. Select the Hard Drive you want to install Proxmox to and hit Next
4. Select your Country, Time zone and Keyboard layout
5. Set a password and e-mail and click Next
6. Set Hostname (pve.proxmox or pve.local)
7. Finish Installation and remove USB-Stick and reboot
8. Access your Promox server from the IP_Address:8006

Update Proxmox Packages (optional)

1. Login to Promox VE (IP_Address:8006) root/PWD
2. Select the VM (pve), rigth click and select “Updates”from the list, click “refresh ” at the top, when finished close the popup and select upgrade (UTF-8 and English).

Configuring and Updating Proxmox VE by using Community-Scripts  (optional)

1. select your node on the left and click Shell and run the script and complete the post-installation process for Proxmox VE

Install Home Assistant OS on Promox

Install Home Assistant OS by using a community script to automate the process significantly.

• Find, download and extract the official KVM (qcow2) Home Assistant OS image
• Define user settings, import and attach disk, set boot order and start the VM automatically
• Install the VM with Default Settings: 4GB RAM, 32GB Storage and 2vCPU cores (later can increase the mem & disk size)
• Settings can be tweaked during installation

1. Click your “100 (hassio)” on the left and select summary and get IP_Address from the list: IP_Address:8123

Restore Hassio from a Snapshot or from a backup: as usual!

Some Tipps

How limit historical data and the logs in configuration.yaml:

recorder:
purge_keep_days: 7 (set to how ever long you want)

recorder:
auto_purge: true
auto_repack: true
purge_keep_days: 10

Purging All Historical Data of certain sensor

• Select the Actions tab
• From the dropdown, select the service recorder.purge_entities.

action: recorder.purge_entities
data:
entity_id:
- sensor.home_energy_l1_current
- sensor.home_energy_l3_current
keep_days: 0

Delete all historical data of all sensors except some specific sensors

action: recorder.purge_entities
data:
keep_days: 0
entity_id: >
{% set exclude = ['sensor.foo','sensor.bar'] %}
{{ states
| selectattr('entity_id')
| rejectattr('entity_id','in', exclude )
| map(attribute='entity_id')
| join(',')
}}

or Delete all historical data by using SQL statements on MariaDB: (Home Assistant Community Add-on: phpMyAdmin)

SELECT * FROM statistics_meta WHERE statistic_id like 'sensor.power_monitor%'

DELETE FROM statistics_meta 
   WHERE metadata_id in (SELECT id FROM statistics_meta WHERE statistic_id = 'sensor.power_monitor_l1_current')