Stefan Agner
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* Fix Tinker Board S (eMMC) boot (#650) Use Tinker Board S U-Boot configuration which is capable to boot from eMMC as well as from SD card. Note that this makes U-Boot always claiming to run on Tinker Board S: .. Model: Rockchip RK3288 Asus Tinker Board S .. It seems that there is no generic Tinker Board configuration. However, Tinker Board S configuration really seems to work well with Tinker Board as well, so just use it. Also today the U-Boot Makefile seems to generate a working idbloader.img already. Drop our special handling. * Use Tinker Board S device tree if booting from eMMC for Linux Instead of patching the Tinker Board device tree, select the device tree based on what device we are booting from. Note: This boots the non-S device tree when booting a Tinker Board S from SD card! But there is no reliable detection otherwise, so let's just live with that fact. * Document how to use our U-Boot to flash eMMC
Home Assistant Operating System
Home Assistant Operating System (formerly HassOS) is an operating system optimized for hosting Home Assistant and its Add-ons.
Home Assistant Operating System uses Docker as Container engine. It by default deploys the Home Assistant Supervisor as a container. Home Assistant Supervisor in turn uses the Docker container engine to control Home Assistant Core and Add-Ons in separate containers. Home Assistant Operating System is not based on a regular Linux distribution like Ubuntu. It is built using buildroot and it is optimized for running Home Assistant, especially on single board compute (SBC) devices like the Pi, ODROID, NUC and Tinker Board (see supported hardware below).
Features
- Lightweight and memory-efficient
- Minimized I/O
- Over The Air (OTA) updates
- Offline updates
- Modular using Docker
Supported hardware
- Raspberry Pi
- Hardkernel ODROID
- Intel NUC
- Asus Tinker Board
- Virtual appliances
See full list and specific models here
Getting Started
If you just want to use Home Assistant the official getting started guide and installation instructions take you through how to download Home Assistant Operating System and get it running on your machine.
If you're interested in finding out more about Home Assistant Operating System and how it works read on...
HassOS components
- Bootloader:
- Operating System:
- Buildroot LTS Linux
- File Systems:
- Container Platform:
- Docker Engine for running Home Assistant components in containers
- Updates:
- RAUC for Over The Air (OTA) and USB updates
- Security:
- AppArmor Linux kernel security module
If you don't have experience with these, embedded systems, buildroot or the build process for Linux distributions, then please read up on these topics. The rest of the documentation in this project is for developers and assumes you have experience of embedded systems or a strong understanding of the internal workings of operating systems.
Developer Documentation
All developer documentation is in the Documentation directory.