Is it necessary to use Ubuntu or is something like Fedora fine too? | Home Assistant | Page 1

rigid sluice Nov 26, 2025, 8:55 PM

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Or is it possible but a lot of unnecessary headaches?

magic silo Nov 26, 2025, 9:00 PM

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Use the OS you're most comfortable with. What do you want to do/run exactly?

rigid sluice Nov 26, 2025, 9:17 PM

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A version of HA that supports Zigbee (Aka not a Docker Container, already tried that on TrueNAS)

chilly light Nov 26, 2025, 9:18 PM

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I'm running HAOS on a virtual machine on my nas and my Sonoff Zigbee dongle works perfectly fine.

rigid sluice Nov 26, 2025, 9:19 PM

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The guide calls for specifically Ubuntu on a generic x86-64

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Yeah my NAS is too loud anyways so thats not really an option for me, i wanna keep HA online during the night and my NAS is in the bedroom...

magic silo Nov 26, 2025, 9:23 PM

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Ubuntu is not installed but live booted to flash the HAOS disk image to a disk.

rigid sluice Nov 26, 2025, 9:23 PM

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Oh i see lmao

magic silo Nov 26, 2025, 9:23 PM

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What hardware do you have? Also why not docker?

rigid sluice Nov 26, 2025, 9:25 PM

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At least the TrueNAS Docker doesnt work with Zigbee, and i have a Fujitsu Futro S920 with 4GB RAM and a 32GB SSD

magic silo Nov 26, 2025, 9:26 PM

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I always recommend the SLZB-06 which works over the network. I don't use TrueNAS but docker definitely works with USB.
So your choice here is either installing HAOS bare-metal or installing something like debian and running the docker container. The latter gives you more freedom. Virtualization, which is my preference, doesn't make much sense with 4G of RAM.

rigid sluice Nov 26, 2025, 9:28 PM

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I think i might try the Docker then, and maybe run a Pihole Docker on it too or something.

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And if that doesnt work ill just run it bare metal

#Is it necessary to use Ubuntu or is something like Fedora fine too?