As far as features go, Home Assistant Supervised has everything that Home Assistant OS does, including the add-ons store. However, it's the most difficult form of Home Assistant to install. It's ...

I tried flashing version 6.6 of Home Assistant with Balena Etcher onto the SD card. But before doing that, I used the SD card copier utility to back up my Raspberry Pi OS installation on a USB drive.

Install Home Assistant: Once Ubuntu is installed, open a terminal and follow the official Home Assistant installation guide. This typically involves downloading the Home Assistant image and ...

Hub: Install Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5 or 4 and plug in a Zigbee USB stick (optional). Alternatively, pick up the Home Assistant Green hub that’s pre-flashed and ready to go.

Home Assistant’s Zigbee and Thread dongle SkyConnect gave me an excuse to dismantle my smart home and rebuild it. No more Philips Hue hubs or Elgato apps are needed to control my home.

Home Assistant is able to talk to my many Airplay 2 devices, it can play media from my home server via DLNA, and if I want to expand it further, there’s an entire ocean of gadgets on Aliexpress ...