/en/tags/home-assistant-supervised/Recent content in Home Assistant Supervised on DVLUPHugoen-USFri, 23 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000/en/blog/2020.10.23-usb-in-hyper-v/Fri, 23 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000/en/blog/2020.10.23-usb-in-hyper-v/<p>If you&rsquo;re running Home assistant in Hyper-V, you&rsquo;ve probably encountered a <em>significant</em> limitation&hellip; <strong>Hyper-V doesn&rsquo;t let you pass-through a USB device</strong>, so you can&rsquo;t use your <a href="https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/z-wave/controllers/#supported-z-wave-usb-sticks--hardware-modules" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Z-Wave dongle</a> or zigbee dongle.</p> <p>So why am I writing this blog post? I have found a way to make it work, feast your eyes on the following screenshot!</p> <p><img src="../../../en/blog/2020.10.23-usb-in-hyper-v/image.png" alt=""></p> <p>Click to enlarge. Z-Wave USB dongle available to Home Assistant container inside Hyper-V</p> <p>The left side is Home Assistant&rsquo;s frontend in the web browser, open to the <a href="https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/ozw/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Open Z-Wave Add-On</a> page. Notice in the yellow highlight, that is a Z-Wave USB dongle plugged into the Windows 10 machine.</p>