How to Set Up Home Assistant Supervised on a Synology NAS

In this tutorial, we’re going to look at how to set up Home Assistant Supervised on a Synology NAS.

You can set up Home Assistant on a Synology NAS relatively easily in Docker, however, there are a bunch of benefits to installing the supervised version. The Home Assistant Supervisor will allow you to install a bunch of add-ons that will enable you to configure your Home Assistant install quickly and easily. There are many ways to manually do things inside of Home Assistant, but the supervisor will allow you to do it in an automated way without much tinkering.

1. How to Set Up Home Assistant Supervised on a Synology NAS

We will install Home Assistant using Virtual Machine Manager. First, ensure that your NAS supports Virtual Machine Manager.

Please be aware that as of right now, the Supervised version of Home Assistant on Docker does not work, so you’re forced to use Virtual Machine Manager.

1. Download the latest version of the VMware ESXi/vSphere Home Assistant operating system. Virtual Machine Manager allows you to import OVA files, which is why we’ll be using the VMware ESXi/vSphere version.

2. Open Virtual Machine Manager, select Virtual Machine, then Create, and finally, Import.

3. Select Import from OVA files, then select Next.

4. Select Upload a file from PC and Browse to the .ova file we downloaded, then select Next. The file will now upload to your Synology NAS.

5. Select your Virtual Machine Manager storage, then select Next.

NOTE: If you haven’t created a VMM storage (this is done when you first set up Virtual Machine Manager), you’ll have to go through and first set that up.

6. You can leave the settings as default (or customize the CPU/Memory if you’d like) and then select Next.

7. Leave the storage as default and then select Next.

8. Use the default VM network (your network name may be different if you customized it) and then select the gear icon. Ensure that the Model is set as e1000, then select OK.

9. Select Next to proceed.

10. Change the settings to match the information below and then select Next:

• Autostart: Yes
• Firmware: UEFI
• Virtual USB Controller: USB 3.0 (this is only necessary if you want to try and pass USB devices from your NAS to the Home Assistant VM. If you don’t, leave it as Disabled).

11. Set the users that you’d like to manage the virtual machine, then select Next.

12. Check off the option to Power on the virtual machine after creation, and then select Done to create the VM!

13. The virtual machine will take a little while to import, but after it does, the virtual machine will power on.

14. After the virtual machine fully powers on, you’ll see that an IP address will be assigned to it. Navigate to the first IP address in the list and port 8123 to access Home Assistant!

http://IP_ADDRESS:8123

NOTE: If you’re having trouble connecting to Home Assistant, select Connect from Virtual Machine Manager to access the console and see if anything has gone wrong. If something has gone wrong, try and shut down the virtual machine, then start it back up.

15. After navigating to the Home Assistant URL, Home Assistant will be preparing, which can take 10-20 minutes in total.

2. How to Configure Home Assistant

1. After Home Assistant is finished preparing, create an account.

2. Select your location and the unit type you’d like to use, then select Next.

3. If you’d like to share anonymous information, feel free to do so and then select Next.

4. Home Assistant will automatically find devices on your local network. You can also set up any other integrations that you’d like! Select Finish to proceed.

13. Home Assistant (with the supervisor installed) will now be set up and configured! Modify it however you’d like!

3. Conclusion – How to Set Up Home Assistant Supervised on a Synology NAS

This tutorial looked at how to set up Home Assistant Supervised on a Synology NAS. The options for installing Home Assistant Supervised are minimal due to how Synology manages its permission n in DSM 7, but this is a quick way of ensuring that it will run properly and work as expected.

Thanks for checking out the tutorial on how to set up Home Assistant Supervised on a Synology NAS. If you have any questions on how to set up Home Assistant Supervised on a Synology NAS, please leave them in the comments of the YouTube video above!