#How to switch from HA Docker to HA OS

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winged patrol
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I installed HA Docker on my old Asus laptop. I want access to the Add On's and require HA OS. How do I upgrade to HA OS?

wide kiln
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You can't just upgrade. You need to flash HAOS to the device and restore. Note that addons are just docker containers. You can create whatever you want. What hardware do you have?

winged patrol
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Are you refering to the Asus laptop HA is running on?

wide kiln
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Yep.

winged patrol
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Its a X555l

wide kiln
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Just 2G of RAM?

winged patrol
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I just bought a Zigbee 2mqtt dongle and it stated I needed to go to Add ons to load software,

wide kiln
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Excuse the language but that's bullshit.

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What did you buy and what did it say?

winged patrol
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Bought from Amazon Zigbee 3.0 USB dongle dual chip

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The QR code took me to a PDF file that said to go to the HA Add ons page and click Zigbee 2MQTT

wide kiln
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I would have recommended a ethernet based one so you don't beed to connect it physically. But what did it say about needing an addon? The Z2M docker container will work fine.

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Ah, so just generic instructions. No. Not needed.

winged patrol
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What do I need to do to get Zigbee started?

wide kiln
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I need the specific dongle model to tell you the driver.

winged patrol
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GW70-MQTT

wide kiln
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zstack.

winged patrol
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What is Docker and what are Containers?

wide kiln
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That's not something that makes sense for me to explain on a phone when there are so many good articles already. I thought you were familiar with it already since you run HA as a container.

winged patrol
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I didn't realiuze there were so many flavers of HA .

wide kiln
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Just two. HAOS runs HA as a docker container too 🙂

winged patrol
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If I want to switch over to HA OS will I lose the configuration I starts so far?

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I have not got to far along in it yet.

wide kiln
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Unlikely.

winged patrol
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Do I need to delete the HA running on my laptop?

wide kiln
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Like I saidy you need to flash HAOS to the device. That will replace everything on it. Or at least on the main drive.

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Create and download a backup before doing that. But as said, I wouldn't. Especially with less powerful hardware. You only have 2G RAM, right?

winged patrol
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Now that it is running HA how do I check for specs?

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Google sais I should have at least 4 Gb ram

wide kiln
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For RAM check Settings > System > Hardware.

winged patrol
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6 GB

wide kiln
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That is sufficient for HAOS 🙂
I just noticed we are in a totally wrong channel for this discussion.

winged patrol
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I've been looking at the built in Apps in my HA

winged patrol
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I've downloaded HA OS 3 times and I cannot get the Add on's tab to show up. What am I missing?