install home assistant supervised on m1 mac

 Here's the steps to get home assistant supervised on a m1 macbook air using parallels.

Create a new VM, download and install debian 11.3

After the install is complete, 

upgrade debian from bullseye to bookworm.


sudo su 
enter your password.

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

press ctrl + \
type bullseye
press enter
type bookworm
press enter
press ctrl + o
press enter
press ctrl + x



apt update
apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs
apt full-upgrade
reboot now

log back on and complete the setup
open terminal
sudo su

install dependencies

apt install \
apparmor \
jq \
wget \
curl \
udisks2 \
libglib2.0-bin \
dbus \
lsb-release \
systemd-journal-remote \
systemd-resolved \
network-manager -y

install docker

curl -fsSL get.docker.com | sh

download os-agent

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/home-assistant/os-agent/releases/latest | jq -r '.assets[] | select(.name | endswith("aarch64.deb")) | .browser_download_url' | xargs wget

you will get confirmation once its downloaded 

2024-01-23 01:40:54 (2.26 MB/s) - ‘os-agent_1.6.0_linux_aarch64.deb’ saved [2881388/2881388]

install os-agent


dpkg -i os-agent_1.6.0_linux_aarch64.deb

download home assistant supervised

wget https://github.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer/releases/latest/download/homeassistant-supervised.deb

install home assistant supervised

dpkg -i homeassistant-supervised.deb

choose qemuarm-64

shutdown VM

Open the settings for VM, click hardware then network.
Select bridged network and choose your internet connection.
Start the VM


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