Installation on a Armbian system
armbian runs on a wide-variety of ARM development boards. Currently there are around 50 boards supported inclusive the OrangePi family, Cubieboard, Pine64, and Odroid.
Setup Python and pip
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev python3-pip
Now that you installed python, there are two ways to install Home Assistant:
- It is recommended to install Home Assistant in a virtual environment to avoid using
root
, using the VirtualEnv instructions - Alternatively, you can install Home Assistant for the user you created when first booting Armbian:
$ sudo pip3 install homeassistant $ hass --open-ui
Running these commands will:
- Install Home Assistant
- Launch Home Assistant and serve the web interface on http://localhost:8123
- the configuration files will be created in /home/{user}/.homeassistant