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I'm never putting one of these in my home.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Teach me your ways please! Setting up a Home Assistant seems like such a daunting task. I'm stalling converting my devices into it. Any tips for a (home assistant) beginner?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just followed the steps on their site. Containers give me cancer, so I did a real install on my home server.

Caveat: I am a professional software engineer (but I didn't really have to hack anything)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Start with a Raspberry Pi and just follow the docs: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/

That's the easy way. I did it the hard way, but that's because I run on on a big dedicated home server together with a dozen other services.