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.

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 …

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Thanks for choosing Home Assistant for your smart home. Here are the basic steps to get you started on the journey to a more private, powerful, and sustainable home.

The documentation covers beginner to advanced topics around the installation, setup, configuration, and usage of Home Assistant. To see what Home Assistant can do, take a look …

Home Assistant is a combination of Home Assistant Core and tools which allows one to run it easily on a Raspberry Pi and other platforms without setting up an operating system first.

Select Other specific-purpose OS > Home assistants and home automation > Home Assistant. Choose the Home Assistant OS that matches your hardware (RPi 3, RPi 4, or RPi 5).

This home zone can be used for automations such as showing the weather, opening the shades at sunrise, or starting the vacuum when you leave the home. After finding your location, select …

Give the VM a name, home-assistant, and define an easy to reach storage location, such as C:\home-assistant. Specify the disk size and select Store virtual disk as a single file.

It includes Home Assistant Core, the Home Assistant Supervisor, and supports add-ons. Home Assistant Supervisor keeps it up to date, removing the need for you to manage an operating …