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| ==== Which Home Assistant edition? ==== | ==== Which Home Assistant edition? ==== | ||
| - | Home Assistant comes in different flavours and so called | + | Home Assistant comes in different flavours and so called |
| + | * Dedicated hardware. Best solution! | ||
| + | * Virtual Machine, like using dedicated hardware but on shared hardware. | ||
| + | * Docker container, but it does not support direct Add-On integration (there are workarounds) | ||
| - | There are three ways: | + | The Virtual Machine approach can be useful if you don't have or don't want to use dedicated hardware, but it comes with the downside |
| - | * Dedicated hardware | + | |
| - | * Virtual Machine | + | |
| - | * Docker container | + | |
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| - | The docker container approach has some limitations, | + | |
| I choose to use dedicated hardware because i want my smart home to be independent from my home-server services. In a way, the smart home needs to be operative even if/when my home IT services are down or the internet is not working. | I choose to use dedicated hardware because i want my smart home to be independent from my home-server services. In a way, the smart home needs to be operative even if/when my home IT services are down or the internet is not working. | ||
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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 | + | I did three different installations over time, and here is why: |
| + | * I started with an old repurposed laptop (see [[homeautomation: | ||
| + | * Then i purchased an Orange Pi 3B (see [[homeautomation: | ||
| + | * At last, i purchased a Home Assistant | ||
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| + | As requirements, | ||
| * 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 ==== | ||
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| + | Follow the [[homeautomation: | ||
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| + | ==== Setup Home Assistant ==== | ||
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| + | The initial setup is described in detail [[https:// | ||
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| + | Some notes: | ||
| + | * Choose a static IP | ||
| + | * Choose a nice hostname (ex: // | ||
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| + | Then you should plug-in your protocol dongles, for example your ZigBee coordinator and set those up as well. See the dedicated pages. | ||
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| + | At this point you can start designing your rooms and areas. I suggest you define at this point all the floors and rooms that you have, so adding devices, lights and switches will be easier later on. | ||
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| + | You will want to install the File Editor extension, and sooner or later you will need to edit your **configuration.yaml** file by hand. | ||
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