ha-rest980-roomba VS operating-system

I use this project to integrate my S9 into Home Assistant as it lets you do room based cleaning via HA. When following those steps, use the “HA Addon” section in each step to keep things simple.

You can also follow this to integrate your Roomba with Home Assistant, along with room based cleaning. The controls are sent to the Roomba over your local WiFi with MQTT.

I used this guide to set it all up. The map overlay that I created could use some work - I traced around a builders floor plan of the house but it doesn't quite line up with what the Roomba sees

To fix the issue use Rest980 and optionally PHP-Nginx with HomeAssistant - create an automation trigger based on the robot state (evacAllowed: false) and update the state to (evacAllowed: true) with some faked Cleanbase data to trick the robot into allowing the Cleanbase to evacuate ("dock":{"known":true,"pn":"4638607","state":301,"fwVer":"4.0.3"}). It's been rock solid for me.

https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/pull/3248

BTW found exact same issue with homeassistant browsing the internet; Add support for Intel GMAC Ethernet controller (#2589) (#2593) · home-assistant/operating-system@9ca836f (github.com)

HAOS (https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system) is not "vanilla" linux, and I have somewhat little experience of linux, although using raspberry-based systems (Domoticz, Pihole, etc) and basic usage of unix mainframes since early 90s. But the question I could not find answer for by googling is, could I use HAOS to farm chia as well, or is it too much optimized towards HA usage to reasonably serve as a chia farming computer too?

The main issue with the 3A+ is the 512MB of RAM. Combined with only having one USB port and no Ethernet, I would not advise using a pi3A+ as a sustainable foundation for HA.

Home assistant was the last thing I had running as a VM, but recently switched over to running it in a LXC container with their ContainerOS (i think that's what they call it). I would say don't do it (at least not yet), and go with their full OS in a VM (dl link to correct KVM/qcow2 version). I say don't start with HomeAssistantContainer b/c you lose Supervisor and the add-on store, and it's a bit less straighforward to get installed.

One thing to notice, I have been able to successfully boot Home Assistant OS Generic x86-64 https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system which is using kernel 5.15+ and I don't know why I am able to boot HAOS (maybe they are using uncompressed kernel?), but not other general or special Linux distributions.

Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit

hass.io builds the whole gamut of images. There's a list at the bottom of the github page https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/tag/8.0.rc2