There’s many of version from HomeAssistant OS. What’s the right one?
Would it be possible to get HAOS on an SSD, connect it via the USB port and boot from there?
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As far as we know, no, only via SD
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I tried to install it on the SD card and it didn’t work… is there any tutorial?
Pretty sure I’ve read here before the USB didn’t have the ability to work with any Mass Storage Device type because I’ve had an mini SD card fail on an RP 3B+ and it was a pain so wanted to use an SSD. They may have added that skill to it by now though. What they can’t do is change the low current maximum, but you could use a powered hub instead.
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I’m trying it too, but so far without success. None of the HAOS works.
See some instructions and further details in another thread:
Thanks, I didn’t know that Ihost needed a special HA version, so I tried the generic 15.1. I’ll test it and write more.
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Hello
As I promised, I’ll write a few words of summary. Based on the previous description, I managed to bring the HA 14.1 ported version to Ihost to life, with pretty good results. I’m a complete beginner in HA, I just encountered it for the first time. I mostly have SONOFF stuff, for which I wanted to install the eWelink Smart Home add-on. It turned out that the HACS add-on is also required to install the add-on. Okay, both worked, but eWelink Smart Home doesn’t start, it gives an error. Fortunately, I found another Sonoff integration, almost everything goes through it. What’s not working? For Zigbee devices, the search through Zigbee Home Automation (ZHA) found all 4 of my thermometers, but unfortunately 2 of them stopped reporting data after being found. The 2 problematic ones are the Sonoff SNZB02/TH01 thermometers, I’ve read in several places that there may be problems with them. The other two SNZB02D work perfectly, although a firmware update was required here too. The wifi devices work flawlessly. The blinds also work with Rademacher integration, although I haven’t found how to switch multiple blinds at the same time here yet. The next big challenge will be integrating the Solax solar system under HA, if anyone has already done this, please write how.
I’m still at the beginning of my exploration, but I really like what I see, HA works beautifully and smoothly. I hope 15.1 comes to Ihost as soon as possible.
It got a bit long, thanks for reading 
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Good evening, I have installed the new firmware 2.5.1 on my iHost. Since this new version it seems that HomeAssistant can be installed natively. I tried to install the darkxst version haos_ihost-12.0.rc1. But after more than an hour it can’t complete the installation and the LAN network is not detected. Thanks for your help.
Please refer to here: i-HOST: New eWeLink CUBE 2.5.0 version
Ihost com Home Assistant Nativo
Após a última atualização do iHost, notei que há possibilidade de usar o HA nativo nele, porém formatei um cartão SD exclusivo para o HA e segui os procedimentos do tutorial inserindo o novo cartão e pressionando o botão mute, porém agora o iHost não reinicia mais, fica somente com o led vermelho pulsante, preciso muito voltar a configuração anterior para utilizar as automações aqui de casa.
Where did you get the procedure handbook from?
No próprio LOG da Sonoff após a atualização:
V2.5.1 [2025.03.26]
iHost V2.5.1 Now Officially Released!
In this update, we’ve introduced the ability to run Home Assistant OS on iHost, significantly enhancing iHost’s flexibility and integration capabilities.
New Features:
Added support for running Home Assistant OS on iHost.
Boot HA OS on iHost
① Insert a TF card pre-flashed with Home Assistant OS into iHost;
② Power cycle iHost;
③ Repeatedly press the mute button (♪) on the top until the LED indicator on the side of iHost enters a blue breathing light pattern;
④ Wait patiently until you access the Home Assistant web interface via its IP address or domain name.
Failed to boot HA OS on iHost
If the indicator shows a red breathing light pattern after pressing the button multiple times:
① Power cycle iHost;
② No button press is needed.
③ iHost retrys to boot HA OS from the TF card.
Switch back to CUBE
① Power cycle iHost;
② Single-press the mute button(♪);
③ iHost switches back to CUBE OS, with the indicator showing a red light flowing from top to bottom.
Users can export Zigbee device data from iHost and restore the backup files to Home Assistant integrated with ZHA/Zigbee2MQTT via the “Export Zigbee Device Data” in iHost’s Settings tab.
Bug Fix:
Fixed a bug with incorrect unit display in light sensor graphs on CAST.
Where did you get the 32-bit HAOS image from to create the bootable media? What tool did you use to do it? Did you know that iHost includes a 32-bit CPU? You won’t run a 64-bit system on such hardware.
Ah, yes, the timeless classic: “How to make your life harder than it needs to be.” Step 1: Run HA on iHost. It’s like asking for turbulence in clear skies—a choice so universally questionable, it manages to be both a poor idea in principle and a disaster in practice. Happy computing 
@ociepa.ekotox This is not the right answer.
It doesn’t if you meant it for me. There are no official 32-bit images of Home Assistant OS (HAOS). The only hope in projects such as the one created by darkxst , which is an unofficial port of Home Assistant Operating System (HAOS) to run on Sonoff iHost (Smart Home Hub Appliance) hardware by ITead . iHost is 32-bit piece of hardware and officially there’s no future for 32-bit HA(OS).
As far as HA on iHost is concerned, you need to read warnings about LAN interface. I’m not sure if the problem was resolved.
