Beginners Guide To Installing Home Assistant 2024

This a beginners guide on how to install Home Assistant, intended to help people who want a smart home, but prefer the DIY approach.

This is not a professional installation, and does not reflect the work we perform for our clients. Client installations are carried out using a more advanced method of installation, on robust, industry standard hardware.

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0:00 Introduction
0:44 What you will Need
1:35 Installing Home Assistant
4:59 Setting up the Raspberry Pi
6:06 Onboarding Home Assistant
9:33 Outro

[joeking]

You made that really easy, a very well put together vid, well done. I however have had the displeasure of installing HA a few times now and can not get my 13 or so Tasmota's that have been running just fine 24/7 for the past 8+ years to work with HA. So i agree the install is a cinch, but now the obfuscated nightmare of getting things rolling. Just wanted to give a heads up to any new potential user that thinks this is the hard bit, I would warn, you ain't seen nothing yet. I have failed totally with around 4 goes at different times/versions, and am only mentioning this here as I thought it was going to be a breeze with my 10 odd years of mqtt. H/W & S/W, programming play time, and it was a massive let down after the 'easy install' hype of many other vids on YT, so all noobe's be very prepared, HA is not all as it seems. But for anyone wanting to hang themselves on HA I can say that for installation your vid is one on the nicest install tutorials, again really well done. King Rgds. a Confused & Bemused failed HA user .

[colormaker]

First time installer of home assistant on the pi4. You made it so easy thank you. +1 subscribed

[ianjones]

Great video Connor, so easy to understand. I'm getting Solar with GivEnergy batteries installed end of Jan 24, I like the Home Assistant interface and would like to use this as my Solar/battery interface. What is the more reliable option to the Raspberry Pi that you mention? It seems that the Raspberry Pi option has a finite life span and can be slow, as you said, so I would prefer a more reliable option. Thanks, Ian

[eziusss]

Dont use RP. Just buy used mini PC. It will be much faster solution.