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| ==== Where to run Home Assistant ==== | ==== Where to run Home Assistant ==== | ||
| - | Home Assistant offers different ways to self-host a standalone instance of Home Assistant on dedicated hardware. The easiest, which is also a good way to support the project itself, is tu buy a [[https:// | + | Home Assistant offers different ways to self-host a standalone instance of Home Assistant on dedicated hardware. The easiest, which is also a good way to support the project itself, is to buy a [[https:// |
| The green is a fully functional hardware with small form factor ready to plug & run. The yellow is quite similar, but you provide yourself a Raspberry Pi4 CPU board. | The green is a fully functional hardware with small form factor ready to plug & run. The yellow is quite similar, but you provide yourself a Raspberry Pi4 CPU board. | ||
| - | I choose to self-host Home Assistant on my own hardware, i picked an oldish laptop to leverage the low-power conusmption. As requirements, | + | I choose to self-host Home Assistant on my own hardware. At first i picked an oldish laptop to leverage the low-power conusmption, and the relevant installation instructions can be found [[homeautomation: |
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| * One wired ethernet card (as WiFi will interfere with ZigBee and similar networks) | * One wired ethernet card (as WiFi will interfere with ZigBee and similar networks) | ||
| - | * 8GB RAM (officially, | + | * 4GB RAM (officially, |
| - | * Any (even small) SSD/ | + | * Any (even small) |
| * At least one, better two or three, USB ports | * At least one, better two or three, USB ports | ||
| You can place this computer in a strategic point in your house, to maximize the ZigBee or Z-Wave rage and signal distribution. You can start anywhere, and then move it if needed, this is specially easy on a laptop where you don't have to power it down. | You can place this computer in a strategic point in your house, to maximize the ZigBee or Z-Wave rage and signal distribution. You can start anywhere, and then move it if needed, this is specially easy on a laptop where you don't have to power it down. | ||
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| ==== Install Home Assistant ==== | ==== Install Home Assistant ==== | ||
| - | Follow the official | + | Follow the [[homeautomation:opi3b|C.1) HA: setup an OrangePi 3B]] or the [[homeautomation:uefipc|C.2) HA on a standard PC]] pages. |
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| - | As a general note, Home Assistant //does not provide an installer// | + | |
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| - | I already had a Linux installed, so i just downloaded the IMG file from Home Assistant download page and flashed it with a typical: | + | |
| - | <code bash> | + | |
| - | dd if=home-assistant.img of=/ | + | |
| - | </ | + | |
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| - | **Beware:** the above command will **destroy** your computer operating system and replace it with Home Assistant. You will not even be able to reboot, only power cycling will work. | + | |
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| - | Make sure your wired network is plugged, as after the first boot you will need to fire up a web browser and locate your Home Assistant IP (see your DHCP logs...). In any case, you can check Home Assistant console output | + | |