This repository can be used to setup Home Assistant Supervised with Lima VMs on MacOS. The Home Assistant Supervisor allows to use Home Assistant Add-ons and some other features, see docs. With this you can do extensive testing of Home Assistant without needing additional hardware.

This was tested successfully on a MacBook M1.

brew install lima

The lima_homeassistant.yaml Lima template reflects the requirements specified in the Home Assistant Supervised requirements but still contains lots of default values. You can use it as it or adjust it to your specific needs.

limactl create --name homeassistant https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maxarndt/homeassistant-lima/main/lima_homeassistant.yaml
# OR ALTERNATIVELY after cloning this repository locally
limactl create --name homeassistant lima_homeassistant.yaml

limactl start homeassistant

limactl shell homeassistant
sudo su -

Follow Step 1, Step 3 and Step 4 of the Home Assistant supervised-installer guide. You can skip Step 2 because Docker is already included in your Lima VM.

cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/home-assistant/os-agent/releases/download/1.6.0/os-agent_1.6.0_linux_aarch64.deb
dpkg -i os-agent_1.6.0_linux_aarch64.deb

Open http://localhost:8123 in your browser. It may take some time until all Home Assistant containers are up and running.

journalctl -f

Execute this inside your Lima VM to watch the logs of your Home Assistant setup.

1. WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.jobs] 'BackupManager.do_restore_partial' blocked from execution, system is not healthy - privileged -> Solved by restarting the VM with limactl stop homeassistant followed by limactl start homeassistant on the host machine.
2. WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.jobs] 'BackupManager.do_restore_partial' blocked from execution, no host internet connection -> Solved by executing ha network reload inside the VM.