Home Assistant On Android 6

Posted by Bruce Liu on June 23, 2022

🏷️ Tags: home assistant , android , Redmi Pro , Termux , Ubuntu

A glimpse of Redmi Pro

Released in August 2016,
OS: Android 6.0, MIUI 10 9.3.28,
Rooted.

Terminal emulator

Termux
- .. from Google Play: Absolutely NOT!
- .. from F-Droid: No. The latest version on F-Droid was released in January 2022. It is for only android >= 7.
- .. from Artifacts section of Github Build action workflows (A Github account logged in is necessary). Download termux-app_v***+***-apt-android-5-github-debug_universal and install it on Redmi Pro.
Linux Deploy

It is a potential solution. I tried a few times, but failed to deploy a linux on my Redmi Pro.

So Termux for android 5 was which I chose finally.

Home Assistant Operating System, Container, Supervised, and Core

There is a table to compare these installation methods.https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/#compare-installation-methods

Normally, I’d like a most powerful Home assistant. So I tried Operating System, Supervised, Container, and Core, sequentially.

Operating System - Not working!

Failed to install a virtual machine.
Supervised - Not working!

apt, pkg, and … were permanenently locked against running as root.

I can NOT install any package from my root access.

I tried install the dependencies using current user. Failed to isntall udisks2, libglib2.0-bin, network-manager, and dbus.
Container - Not working!

Failed to install docker-compose.
Core - Not working!

Current user again (not root user).

Python 3.9 or newer is suggested. https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux#install-home-assistant-core

While, the latest python in the repos supported by Termux is 3.8 and there is no plan for support or package updates.https://github.com/termux/termux-app/wiki/Termux-on-android-5-or-6

That’s OK. I just ignored them and go on.

Some denpendencies are Not supported. Ignore again.

Finally, pip install homeassistant

And failed at ERROR: Failed building wheel for cryptography. It need a rust >=1.41, while the latest rust is 1.38.

Failed again.

All were not working on Termux for android 5.

PRoot

proot-distro is NOT supported on android 5/6. 💩

Almost no way to proceed.
ubuntu-in-termux

Lucky. I’ve found a ready-to-use script to install Ubuntu from Termux.

It works like a charm.

So I have a Jellyfish on my Redmi Pro. It will be easily to go on.

Home Assistant Core on ubuntu-in-termux

su user access,
latest python (3.10),
python3-dev, python3-venv, python3-pip, libffi-dev, libssl-dev, libjpeg-dev, zlib1g-dev, autoconf, build-essential, libopenjp2-7, libtiff5, libturbojpeg0-dev, and tzdata. All dependancies are supported. Perfect!
pip install homeassistant worked as well.
Go with your hass.

Note: Maybe a few bugs. I ignored them.

Enjoy Home Assistant on my Redmi Pro!

Brainstorm

Not root? Is it possible to work for ubuntu-in-termux?
Refer to the script of ubuntu-in-termux, is it to deply some other Linux distros?

No plan to test.

Reference

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