This will boot up a virtual machine screen and will show that your Home Assistant is booting up, give it about 5 minutes.

Click on your Home Assistant Virtual Machine to highlight it, then click on Start (green arrow at the top).Ģ. Starting Home Assistant OS in VirtualBox.ġ. Go to Network (from the lefthand toolbar).Ĭongrats, you now have a Home Assistant OS running in Virtual Machine. Processors = 2 (you can max it out if you like, not further past the green bar).ġ4. Go to 'System' and checkmark 'Enable EFI (special OSes only).ġ2. Right-click on HAOS your new Virtual Machine and click on Settings (or click on settings on the toolbar at the top):ġ1. Choose the 'haos_ova-10.3.vdi' file, then click Next. Click on 'Use an Existing Virtual Hard Drive File'Ĩ. Version: Other Linux (64bit) (scroll to the very bottom for this).īase Memory: *I like to add at least 4GB worthħ. Place it into a folder that you'd like the operating system to remain in permanently (ie. Download Home Assistant OS for Virtual Box (.vdi) here: Ģ. Install Virtual Box into the folder that you want it to be by following the Virtual Box Setup Wizard.ġ. Download Virtual Box here for 'Windows Hosts': ģ. Passthrough Z-Stick through VirtualBox.ġ. There will be 4 sections to follow to complete your very own Home Assistant OS from your Windows PC.ģ. This will serve as a partial guide to getting your Z-Stick running with Home Assistant on your Windows PC from top to bottom. This article will give you direct steps on how to run Home Assistant OS through VirtualBox on Windows, and how you can passthrough the Z-Stick to interface it into Home Assistant and ZWaveJS. Modified on: Fri, 21 Jul, 2023 at 6:11 PM Z-Stick 7 (Z-Wave) Setup Home Assistant with Windows and VirtualBox

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