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 ====== C.1) HA: setup Home Assistant Green ======
-[[http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-3B.html|OrangePi 3b]] is an amazing cmoplete board with 2, 4 or 8 Gb of RAM and a nice arm64 CPU.
+[[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://homeassistant.local:8123**, or check your DHCP server and go to the IP associated on port 8123.
-===== Flashing operating system =====
+The rest is easy, just follow the on-screen instructions.
-Home Assistant doesn't provide a build specifically for the OrangePi brand, only for the RaspberryPi and the two are not directly compatible.
-Luckly, the Armbian community provides a readily available Armbian build with preloaded the Home Assistant image, go  [[https://www.armbian.com/orangepi3b/|here]] to download the image.
+===== 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/thread USB dongle.
-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's a good device.
-===== First boot =====
-Plug the uSD in the OrangePi 3B, connect the OrangePi 3B to a wired LAN cable and power it up.
-Check your DHCP to know which IP has been assigned to your Opi3B and ssh into it as user //root// using password //1234//.
-Complete first setup, set root password and create an user, then reboot.
-run //armbian-config// and move the installation to the emmc, format as etx4.
-===== Install Home Assistant Supervised =====
-To setup the Home Assistant image backed in the Armbian installation, run the bash script found in the home of the root user.
-After the setup, reboot the OrangePi and login to Home Assistant via web UI on port 8123.

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