Installing Home Assistant
You will need to install Home Assistant before we can get started. You can install Home Assistant on your computer or you can turn a Raspberry Pi into a dedicated Home Assistant hub.
Alternative methods
For advanced users we have several alternative guides for installing Home Assistant.
- Docker
- Manual Raspberry Pi installation (requires existing Raspbian installation)
- Raspberry Pi All-In-One Installer Script (requires existing Raspbian installation)
- Vagrant
- Synology NAS
- Virtualenv Linux