Information Density: Home Assistant – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

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Home Assistant integrates with over a thousand different devices
and services.
Once started, Home Assistant will automatically scan your network for
known devices and allow you to easily set them up.
EXPLORE INTEGRATIONS

Once you have integrated all your devices at home, you can unleash Home
Assistant’s advanced automation engine to make your home work for you.
Turn on the light when the sun sets or when coming home
Alert you when you leave your garage door open.
EXPLORE AUTOMATIONS

Home Assistant dashboards allow you to display information about your smart home. Dashboards are customizable and provide a powerful way to manage your home from your mobile or desktop.
Easily create and customize your dashboards with drag-and-drop.
Different card types to visualize your data and control your smart home devices.
EXPLORE DASHBOARDS

Assist allows you to control Home Assistant using natural language. It is built on top of an open voice foundation and powered by knowledge provided by our community.
Customize your voice assistant and experiment with AI conversations.
Use Assist everywhere on your mobile phone, tablets, smartwatches, and even old-school telephones.
EXPLORE ASSIST

Home Assistant is not just limited to Home Assistant. Easily install
other applications that will help you manage your home.
Run AdGuard, a DNS-based ad blocker
Run third party automation engines like NodeRed
Turn Home Assistant into a Spotify Connect target
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Home Assistant keeps your data local, no need for a cloud.

Home Assistant communicates with your devices locally, and will fallback
to pulling in data from the cloud if there is no other option. No data
is stored in the cloud, and everything is processed locally.

Use the official Home Assistant apps, a convenient companion to quickly
control your devices and be notified when things happen in your home,
even on your wrist using the Apple Watch.
The apps can also be used to send your location home to use presence
detection as part of your automations. Data is sent directly to your
home, no access by third-parties.

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Home Assistant allows you to get on top of your energy use with its
home energy management feature. Gain new insights,
optimize your solar panel production, plan energy usage and save money.
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Take over all the screens. Home Assistant Cast makes every TV a display for dashboards.
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Use NFC to bring music to your life or automate the mundane.
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Home Assistant Green Review

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"Versatility is the true magic of Home Assistant"

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How Home Assistant saved my car

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Home Assistant saved my house. Thanks!

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The Home Assistant Green is here to make the most powerful smart home platform more accessible

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"We want privacy and local control to be the standard."

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20 things I wished I knew when I started with Home Assistant

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"I Ditched the Cloud and Upgraded My Smart Home"

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Home Assistant gives you tons of freedom to arrange your devices in practically any way you see fit

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Ultimate Home Assistant Beginner’s Guide!

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"Control and monitor your home from anywhere in the world."

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Home Assistant at GitHub Universe 2024

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I ditched cloud voice assistants for a local LLM and my smart home finally feels private

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Home Assistant is a project of the Open Home Foundation: the non-profit organization that fights for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes.
The foundation receives funding from its commercial partners Apollo Automation, and Nabu Casa – which also makes official Home Assistant products!

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Home Assistant Cloud is an optional subscription service provided by our partner Nabu Casa. It adds secure remote access to your Home Assistant from anywhere, integrations with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, and the text-to-speech and speech-to-text engines used by Assist. Subscriptions also help fund the development of Home Assistant itself.
Home Assistant works fully without it. Home Assistant Cloud is there for the things that genuinely benefit from a cloud connection, such as remote access and the voice assistant integrations, while everything else continues to run locally on your own hardware.
For full details on features, pricing, and setup instructions, see the Nabu Casa website.
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Home Assistant runs on your own hardware, so your smart home keeps
working even when the internet is down and your data stays at home with
you. The easiest way to get started is with
Home Assistant Green, a plug-and-play hub that is
ready to use in about 15 minutes. If you would rather use hardware you
already own, Home Assistant runs on a Raspberry Pi, a mini PC, a
server, or in a virtual machine. Pick the option below that fits you
best.
Easiest

[H2] Plug and play with Home Assistant Green
The affordable Home Assistant Green is the easiest way to start using
Home Assistant. It's plug-and-play and comes with Home Assistant Operating System already installed.

[H3] Home Assistant Green
The easiest way to get started with Home Assistant

SKILLS REQUIRED
Interest in setting up a smart home

TOOLS REQUIRED
Ethernet connection

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Easy

[H2] Install on a Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi, a small and affordable computer, is one of the most popular
platforms for running Home Assistant. If you already have one or want to put
one to use, this is a great option to get started.

[H3] Install Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi
A great option if you already have a Raspberry Pi or want to put one to use.

SKILLS REQUIRED
Assembling a Raspberry Pi setup
Flashing a Raspberry Pi

TOOLS REQUIRED
Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 with power supply (minimum 2 GB RAM)
microSD memory card
Ethernet connection

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[H2] About installation types
Home Assistant offers two different installation types. Home Assistant Operating System is the recommended installation type.

Home Assistant Operating System: An embedded,
minimalistic operating system designed to run the Home Assistant ecosystem
on single board computers (like the Home Assistant Green or a Raspberry Pi) or Virtual Machines. It
is the most convenient option in terms of installation and maintenance and it supports
appsApps are additional standalone third-party software packages that can be installed on Home Assistant OS. [Learn more]. Home Assistant Operating System is
the recommended installation type for most users.
Home Assistant Container: Container-based installation of Home Assistant. You need to bring your own system (such as Linux) with container orchestration (like Docker), and manually handle updates. Home Assistant Container installations don’t have access to appsApps are additional standalone third-party software packages that can be installed on Home Assistant OS. [Learn more].

Note: Some integrations, such as Thread and Z-Wave, are controlled by appsApps are additional standalone third-party software packages that can be installed on Home Assistant OS. [Learn more]. There is no out-of-the-box support for these on Container installations.

HA OS1
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1: Names are abbreviated. The full names of the installation types are:
Home Assistant Operating System
Home Assistant Container
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[H2] Extend with Home Assistant Yellow
The extensible Home Assistant Yellow comes with all the ingredients you need
to help you build a robust smart home. All you need to do is to bring your
own Raspberry Pi Compute Module.

[H3] Home Assistant Yellow
The powerful way to run Home Assistant

SKILLS REQUIRED
You're comfortable following instructions on:
Installing a compute module and a heat sink
Flashing a Raspberry Pi

TOOLS REQUIRED
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
Ethernet connection
USB storage drive
Screwdriver

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Hard

[H2] Install on other hardware
Home Assistant can be repurposed and installed on various hardware, such
as an Odroid or a generic x86-64 machine. The Home Assistant Operating System
allows you to install Home Assistant on these devices even if you have
little to no Linux experience.

[H3] Install Home Assistant on Odroid devices
A more powerful alternative to Raspberry Pi

SKILLS REQUIRED
You're comfortable following instructions on:
Writing boot images
Installing an SD card or eMMC

TOOLS REQUIRED
An Odroid device
microSD memory card or eMMC
Ethernet connection

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[H3] Install Home Assistant on x86-64 machines
Repurpose workstation hardware to run Home Assistant

SKILLS REQUIRED
You can use a command line and install a boot medium on your hardware
You're comfortable configuring the BIOS based on instructions.

TOOLS REQUIRED
An x86-64 machine
Storage hard drive
USB stick
Ethernet connection

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Expert

[H3] Install Home Assistant variants on Raspberry Pi
A low-cost DIY solution to get started with Home Assistant

SKILLS REQUIRED
Assembling a Raspberry Pi setup
Flashing a Raspberry Pi
Advanced knowledge of Linux
Using Linux command line

TOOLS REQUIRED
Raspberry Pi 3, 4 or 5 with power supply
microSD memory card
Ethernet connection

Get Raspberry Pi
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[H3] Install Home Assistant on Linux
Use Home Assistant OS, Container

SKILLS REQUIRED
Advanced knowledge of Linux
Using Linux command line
Using Docker Compose (for HA Container)

TOOLS REQUIRED
Machine with Linux installed

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[H3] Install Home Assistant on macOS
Use Home Assistant OS on a VM

SKILLS REQUIRED
Advanced knowledge of macOS
Using macOS command line

TOOLS REQUIRED
Machine with macOS installed

View tutorial

[H3] Install Home Assistant on Windows
Use Home Assistant OS on a VM

SKILLS REQUIRED
Advanced knowledge of Windows
Using Windows command line

TOOLS REQUIRED
Machine with Windows installed
VirtualBox (for VM)

View tutorial

[H3] Install Home Assistant on other systems
Use Home Assistant on virtual machines, NAS, and more

SKILLS REQUIRED
Know how to find an IP address on your router
Advanced knowledge of Windows
Using Linux command line

TOOLS REQUIRED
Machine with Windows installed
VirtualBox (for VM)

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