Home Assistant on TrueNAS Community (SCALE)

My previous post discussed how to get a headless Steam instance running on TrueNAS SCALE. I had a spare GPU which I wanted to repurpose to play (older) video games without first needing to boot my desktop. This post roughly documents how I run my Home Assistant instance on my TrueNAS SCALE server. The official website details several installation methods, which mainly comes down to two installation types: either a full-fledged OS image (HA OS), or; a (less feature-complete) containerised version. ...

September 13, 2025 · 2 min

Steam Headless on TrueNAS Community (SCALE)

After watching Lawrence Systems' video about why it’s time to move off TrueNAS CORE—​which I had been putting off for too long already—​I finally migrated to Community (SCALE). I guess it was the last push I needed, really. I even migrated most of my services inside my VMs to either separate TrueNAS Apps, or vanilla docker containers I manage via Dockge (such as Nextcloud AIO). But then I also noticed another available TrueNAS App which piqued my interest: Steam Headless. ...

June 18, 2025 · 2 min