Migrate Home Assistant to Proxmox - Raspberry Pi to Dell OptiPlex Guide
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Ep 4 - Migrate Home Assistant to Proxmox (THIS VIDEO)
Migrate Home Assistant from a Raspberry Pi to a Dell OptiPlex running Proxmox—without losing your automations, integrations or smart-home setup.
In this step-by-step Home Assistant migration guide, I back up the Raspberry Pi installation, create a Home Assistant OS virtual machine on Proxmox, restore the backup and fix the duplicate-instance warning. This is a practical upgrade for anyone moving Home Assistant from a Pi to a more powerful, reliable mini PC or homelab server.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Home Assistant migration overview
0:25 Current Raspberry Pi setup
1:55 Backup and migration checklist
2:28 Prepare Proxmox
2:58 Create the Home Assistant OS VM
3:12 Download and import HAOS
3:39 Start the VM and restore Home Assistant
4:05 Fix the duplicate-instance warning
4:25 Validate integrations and devices
5:10 Final checks and migration result
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
• How to back up Home Assistant safely
• How to install Home Assistant OS as a Proxmox VM
• How to migrate from Raspberry Pi to Dell OptiPlex
• How to restore your Home Assistant backup
• How to resolve duplicate Home Assistant instance warnings
This is Episode 4 of my Dell OptiPlex homelab series.
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