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| - | ====== C.3) HA: setup an OrangePi 3B ====== | + | ====== C.1) HA: setup Home Assistant Green ====== |
| - | [[http://www.orangepi.org/ | + | [[https://www.home-assistant.io/green|Home Assistant Green]] //"The affordable Home Assistant Green is the easiest way you can start using Home Assistant. It's plug-and-play and comes with Home Assistant already installed."// |
| + | The Home Assistant Green is a nice little device based on an ARM CPU specifically designed by the Home Assistant guys for Home Assistant itself. I only wish i had purchased it before i actually did. | ||
| - | ===== Hardware ===== | + | Advantages i like about my Green: |
| + | * Small footprint | ||
| + | * Super easy setup | ||
| + | * Perfect hardware integration | ||
| + | * Top quality | ||
| + | * Shipped with good power adapter | ||
| + | * Price point is nice (a little bit more than an OrangePi 3B with same specs, plus enclosure, eMMC and power adapter) | ||
| - | You definitely want to purchase an EMMC, 32GB would be plenty of space, because the uSD can be unstable and fail badly after unwanted power interruptions. | + | Disadvnatages i don't like: |
| + | * Kinda ugly, and too much square sized, a bit unpractical | ||
| + | * Hard to find sometimes, first time i looked it was sold out | ||
| + | * Some shops set it overprice, i suggest you shop around. | ||
| + | * No WiFi and no Bluetooth, by choice to avoid EMC issues with ZigBee and similar protocols | ||
| - | You sohuld get 4GB of RAM, since 2GB is the bare minimum and 8GB probably overkill. | + | //Note:// i have no affiliation whatsoever with Home Assistant, Nabu Casa or any other company related. |
| - | I opted to purchase also a mini cooling fan and a transparent enclusure to fit everything inside safely. | + | ===== Setup ===== |
| + | It's very simple: open the box, plug the ethernet cable, plug power adapter, power on, then point your browser to **http:// | ||
| - | ===== Flashing operating system ===== | + | The rest is easy, just follow the on-screen instructions. |
| - | Home Assistant doesn' | ||
| - | Luckly, the Armbian community provides a readily available Armbian build with preloaded the Home Assistant image, go [[https:// | + | ===== ZigBee adapter ===== |
| - | The direct dowload link is [[https://dl.armbian.com/orangepi3b/Bookworm_current_minimal-homeassistant|this]]. | + | I choosed to purchase also the Home Assistant sponsored **Connect ZBT-1** ([[https://www.home-assistant.io/connectzbt1/|here]]). It's a very small footprint ZigBee/ |
| - | Flash the image with with Balena Etcher on a uSD card. | + | I have to say that its the best ZigBee coordinator dongle i had so far, very pleased by the stability and signal quality overall. At the same price point of other branded adapters, i think it' |
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| - | ===== First boot ===== | ||
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| - | Plug the uSD in the OrangePi 3B, connect the OrangePi 3B to a wired LAN cable and power it up. | ||
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| - | Check your DHCP to know which IP has been assigned to your Opi3B and ssh into it as user //root// using password //1234//. | ||
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| - | Complete first setup, set root password and create an user, then reboot. | ||
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| - | run // | ||
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| - | ===== Install Home Assistant Supervised ===== | ||
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| - | To setup the Home Assistant image backed in the Armbian installation, | ||
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| - | After the setup, reboot the OrangePi and login to Home Assistant via web UI on port 8123. | ||