operating-system VS openmptcprouter

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

I've been looking at this project for a while which may be interesting to you: https://github.com/Ysurac/openmptcprouter.

I recently bought a property where I cannot get a full fibre connection, but I can get 150-400 Mbps using 5G. I've been thinking about using dual 5G connections and tunneling my traffic via mptcp to a VPS to aggregate the connections.

https://www.openmptcprouter.com/

I mentored the port of MPTCP to OpenWRT years ago, and OpenMPTCPRouter took some of this work in their port.

Something which goes further than this, but works very well for my use case and would probably suit others in the WFH crowd: OpenMPTCProuter [1]

This handles failover between connections and also aggregates them using MultiPath TCP to maximize bandwidth & overall reliability at the expense of increased data usage and the cost of running a machine somewhere with a decent connection, even a cheap VPS.

I'm using it to aggregate ADSL, Starlink and 4G, resulting in a stable 250mbps/50mbps connection.

* [1] https://www.openmptcprouter.com/

You might want to take a look at https://www.openmptcprouter.com/.

I do the same and for the same reason, but I use https://www.openmptcprouter.com/, which is open source. It's game changing!

If you're looking for a bonded type solution similar to Speedify, I've had good success with a raspberry pi, an inexpensive 10 port gig switch, a DigitalOcean droplet and https://www.openmptcprouter.com/.

I get a VPS, preferably with Debian or Ubuntu and set it up as described here

https://www.openmptcprouter.com/ was the inspiration

Then OP could use OpenMPTCProuter to bond the connection, thus actually getting bandwidth benefits out of the multiple carriers.