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<div class='install-instructions raspberry'>
<p>Home Assistant uses Python 3.4 which is not shipped with the current Raspbian distibution for the Raspberry Pi. Before installing Home Assistant, you will have to <a href="http://depado.markdownblog.com/2015-03-12-short-tutorial-raspbian-python3-4-rpi-gpio" target="_blank">install Python 3.4</a>.
<p>Home Assistant uses Python 3.4 which is not shipped with the current Raspbian distibution for the Raspberry Pi. Before installing Home Assistant, you will have to <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=113961#p779265" target="_blank">install Python 3.4</a>.
Once that is complete, installing and running Home Assistant on your local machine is easy. Make sure you have <a href='https://www.python.org/downloads/' target="_blank">Python 3.4</a> installed and execute the following code in a console:
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</div> <!-- INSTALL-INSTRUCTIONS RASPBERRY -->
<h3>Troubleshooting</h3>
### {% linkable_title Troubleshooting %}
<p>If you run into any issues, please see the <a href='{{site_root}}/getting-started/troubleshooting.html'>troubleshooting page</a>. It contains solutions to many of the more commonly encountered issues.</p>
If you run into any issues, please see [the troubleshooting page](/getting-started/troubleshooting.html). It contains solutions to many of the more commonly encountered issues.
<p>For additional help, in addition to this site, there are three sources:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gitter.im/balloob/home-assistant" target="_blank">Gitter Chatroom</a> for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.</li>
<li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/home-assistant-dev" target="_blank">Development Mailing List</a> for development related questions and discussing new features.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/balloob/home-assistant" target="_blank">GitHub Page</a> for issue reporting.</li>
</ul>
</p>
For additional help, in addition to this site, there are three sources:
<h3>Staying Up to Date</h3>
<p>In order to update Home Assistant to the latest stable release, simply type the following into a console:</p>
- [Gitter Chatroom](https://gitter.im/balloob/home-assistant) for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
- [Development Mailing List](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/home-assistant-dev) for development related questions and discussing new features.
- [GitHub Page](https://github.com/balloob/home-assistant) for issue reporting.
### {% linkable_title What's next %}
If you want to have Home Assistant start on boot, [autostart instructions](/getting-started/autostart.html) can be found here.
To see what Home Assistant can do, launch demo mode:
```bash
hass \-\-demo-mode
```
To update Home Assistant to the latest release:
```bash
pip3 install \-\-upgrade homeassistant
```
<p>If you would like to stay up to date with the newest unstable builds (alphas, betas, and release candidates), use this command:</p>
```bash
pip3 install \-\-upgrade \-\-pre homeassistant
```
<h3>What's Next</h3>
<p>If you want to see what Home Assistant can do, you can start the demo mode by running <code>hass \-\-demo-mode</code>. Home Assistant has a few other command line flags that can be displayed by running <code>hass \-\-help</code>.</p>
<p>From here you may now start configuring Home Assistant to your liking. For more advanced users, the <a href='{{site_root}}/getting-started/advanced.html'>advanced configuration page</a> contains brief tutorials on creating more advanced installations.</p>
###[Next step: Configuring Home Assistant &raquo;](/getting-started/configuration.html)