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homeautomation:home_assistant [2025/06/04 08:38] – [Which Home Assistant edition?] willyhomeautomation:home_assistant [2025/06/04 08:43] (current) – [Install Home Assistant] willy
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 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. At first i picked an oldish laptop to leverage the low-power conusmption, and the relevant installation instructions can be found [[homeautomation:uefipc|here]]. After some months, after having issues with the laptop battery i decided to switch to an even lower consumpion OrangePi 3B ARM device, the installation instructions can be found [[homeautomation:opi3b|here]].+I did three different installations over time, and here is why: 
 +  * I started with an old repurposed laptop (see [[homeautomation:uefipc|here]]), but failing hardware and noisy fan where downsides. 
 +  * Then i purchased an Orange Pi 3B (see [[homeautomation:opi3b|here]]) and leveraged that for a while, but requiring manual updates to the OS was annoying. 
 +  * At last, i purchased a Home Assistant Green (see [[homeautomation:green|here)]], both to support the project and get the best full stack support out of it. And i have been really happy so far.
  
 As requirements, i can recoment the following: As requirements, i can recoment the following:
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 ==== Install Home Assistant ==== ==== Install Home Assistant ====
  
-Follow the [[homeautomation:opi3b|C.1) HA: setup an OrangePi 3B]] or the [[homeautomation:uefipc|C.2) HA on a standard PC]] pages.+Follow the [[homeautomation:green|C.1) HA: setup Home Assistant Green]], [[homeautomation:opi3b|C.1) HA: setup an OrangePi 3B]] or the [[homeautomation:uefipc|C.2) HA on a standard PC]] pages.