Home Assistant

Raspberry Pi All-In-One Installer

Easily deploy a complete Home Assistant server, with Websocket MQTT and Z-Wave driver support using Fabric!

Requirements before installation:

  • You have a Raspberry Pi with a fresh install of Raspbian Jessie/Jessie-Lite.
  • You are able to SSH into your Raspberry Pi
  • You have a computer running Python 3

Installation instructions (all from your PC):

  1. Install fabric: pip3 install fabric3
  2. Clone the script: git clone https://github.com/jbags81/fabric-home-assistant.git
  3. Change directory: cd fabric-home-assistant
  4. Edit fabfile.py and add the host info of your Raspberry Pi.
  5. Build your new Home Assistant server: fab deploy
  6. Reboot your Raspberry Pi

Once rebooted, your Raspberry Pi will be up and running with Home Assistant. You can access it from http://your_raspberry_pi_ip:8123.

The Home Assistant config is located at /home/hass. The virtualenv with the Home Assistant installation is located at /srv/hass/hass_venv.

The All-In-One Fabric script will do the following automatically:

  • Create all needed directories
  • Create needed service accounts
  • Install OS and Python dependencies
  • Setup a virtualenv to run Home Assistant and components inside.
  • Run as a service account
  • Install Home Assistant in a virtualenv
  • Build and install Mosquitto from source with websocket support
  • Build and Install Python-openzwave in the Home Assistant virtualenv
  • Add both Home Assistant and Mosquitto to systemd services to start at boot

Fabric allows any of the underlying functions to be ran individually as well. Run fab -l to see a list of all callable jobs.

Tested with:

  • Raspbian Jessie
  • Raspbian Jessie-Lite
  • Debian 8 (Replace username “pi” in fabfile.py with debian user)