SYSTEM: Home Assistant Installation | Raspberry Pi

 

HOME ASSISTANT INSTALLATION ON RASPBERRY PI

Another alternative to QNAP is installation on Raspberry. The latest release of this board provides enough RAM and CPU power to run HA smoothly. I got RPi4 with 4GB of memory so it should be enough. In addition I have added 128GB SD card so my storage will be also enough.

Raspberry Pi 4 model B with heat sink

SD Card i use (128GB)

Raspberry Pi 4 with LCD touch display attached. This will be future setup with touch interface.

PREREQUISITIES

1. Raspberry Pi with proper power supply. For my system I use the one providing 5V with 3A (15W in total);
2. SD card big enough to hold HA and its system. 32 is the minimum, I use 128GB
3. Balena software installed from this link (it will write our SD card with Hassio image)

INSTALLATION

Installation procedure is copied from https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/raspberrypi#write-the-image-to-your-boot-media:

WRITE THE IMAGE TO YOUR BOOT MEDIA

1. Attach the Home Assistant boot media (SD card) to your computer
2. Download and start Balena Etcher. (You may need to run it with administrator privileges on Windows).
3. Select “Flash from URL” 
   
   
   
4. Get the URL for your Raspberry Pi:

Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit: https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/download/9.0/haos_rpi4-64-9.0.img.xz

1. Paste the URL for your Raspberry Pi into Balena Etcher and click “OK” 
   
   
   
2. Balena Etcher will now download the image, when that is done click “Select target” 
   
   
   
3. Select the SD card you want to use for your Raspberry Pi 
   
   
   
4. Click on “Flash!” to start writing the image 
   
   
   
5. When Balena Etcher is finished writing the image you will get this confirmation 
   
   
   

START UP YOUR RASPBERRY PI

1. Insert the boot media (SD card) you just created.
2. Attach an Ethernet cable for network.
3. Attach the power cable.
4. In the browser of your Desktop system, within a few minutes you will be able to reach your new Home Assistant on homeassistant.local:8123.

• If you are running an older Windows version or have a stricter network configuration, you might need to access Home Assistant at homeassistant:8123 or http://X.X.X.X:8123 (replace X.X.X.X with your Raspberry Pi’s IP address).

With the Home Assistant Operating System installed and accessible you can continue with onboarding.