Image: reddit.com · I built an app to clone your HA OS to a USB device — directly from the UI, no PC needed
A Home Assistant app that clones HA OS to a USB drive
Rather than reflash an SD card by hand, a user spent a week building with Claude an app that backs up, flashes and restores Home Assistant onto a USB device.
Credits
- Reddit poster Eliav2 Source ↗
- Repository account user-attachments Source ↗
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The full story
Upgrading a Home Assistant SD card normally means backing up, flashing a new card from a PC and restoring. Rather than spend an hour doing that, the maker says he "wasted a week" writing an app with Claude to do it automatically.
You plug a USB device into the Home Assistant machine and click clone: the app makes a backup, downloads the right HA OS image for the board, flashes it and injects the backup, showing progress as it goes. Booting from the new device brings back the config, automations, accounts and database.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I built an app to clone your HA OS to a USB device — directly from the UI, no PC neededReddit poster: Eliav2Posted
The maker's post on r/homeassistant.
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- The code: github.comRepository account: user-attachments
Linked in the post.