On MacOS you can use Disk Utility for this. Get an USB drive that can be erased or is empty.įormat the USB drive as MS-DOS FAT32 and rename it to CONFIG. Luckily an older tutorial by Adafruit helped me out. So I had no way to place the file on the SD card. But when my (MacOS) computer had finished writing the Home Assistant image, the SD card became unreadable to my computer. I had found some tutorials online that said to place a specific file with Wi-Fi info on the SD card (similar to ]())). On the Home Assistant site the next step is to start up your Raspberry Pi with an ethernet cable attached, which I don’t have. Screenshot of the Raspberry Pi Imager with the downloaded Home Assistant Image selected Your Wi-Fi connection (There is also a Home Assistant image available in the Raspberry Pi Imager under Other specific purpose OS but when I checked, this was a much lower version than on the Home Assistant website itself.)ġ.

Then choose Use custom and point to the downloaded image on your hard drive. Open the Raspberry Pi Imager, and click Choose OS. This will erase the SD!ĭownload the applicable image (for Raspberry Pi 3 or 4, 32 or 62 bit) on the Home Assistant site. We will write the Home Assistant OS image to an SD. My challenge here is that I run all my Raspberry’s headless, and I have no easy access to an ethernet cable to get to the initial setup. I tried installing the container, but installing Docker failed for me. I tried installing the Python program, which worked, but I could not get it to automatically start on a reboot. A dedicated OS, a container (for example in a Docker environment) or Core, a Python program. When you install Home Assistant on your Raspberry Pi, you have three possible options.

Enter Home Assistant an open source, free, extensible solution, perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi, with privacy and local control. And I never seem to be able to do what I want to do (turn on the lights based on the sunset time?). But even though we are just getting started, we already have a few standards in our house (Hue and Tuya) and that will probably just grow. Home Automation… On the hand it feels like overkill, on the other hand, it is so much fun.

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