Comments on: Getting Started with Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi

By: Mats Karlsson

Mats Karlsson — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:00:14 +0000

Thanks for the description on how to use the I/O.
There is a lot of stuf that has change (and I hate that in the linux world that guides never work becuse there changes and different distributions).
But at least it gave me a sceleton of steps so I could get an automation with I/O to work so I can continu in my irigation of the garden to work.
I just have to figure out how the diagram should look like to have external 12 V power and get the pluming to fit ;).
And rthen it will be a lot of figuring out how to get a god system that is weather dependent will promebly just start by outdoor temperature dependent/ condition

By: Alan Knight

Alan Knight — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 16:22:14 +0000

Hi Sara,

Followed installation of Home Assistant, until installing Etcher (from your link). The word ‘flash’ does not appear, all I see is a green download button. All I get after downloading & unzipping is a load of files & a few folders, but nothing that I can execute. I am unable to go further.

Please help.

Thanks

By: Forrest Erickson

Forrest Erickson — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:55:22 +0000

In reply to Randy. I too found myself stumbling around the UI. Left wondering for what version was this tutorial written? Anyone?

By: Forrest Erickson

Forrest Erickson — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:53:46 +0000

In reply to Forrest Erickson. Other notes. I am running an RPi3 with 32G SD card. IIRC, I chose the 64 bit version for the install.

By: Forrest Erickson

Forrest Erickson — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:51:52 +0000

FYI,

After putting the HomeAssistant on the SD card I powered up the RPi and with a keyboard and monitor connected after about 3 minuets I got a log in prompt.

I found the default log in to be user: “root” and pw: none as in press return.

I added the Samba Share but Windows 10 network browser does not find HomeAssistant.
Additionally I am not able to find the SSH add-in.

These notes made on 20210227
I am working with Home Assistant 2021.2.3
Version core-2021.2.3

P.S. I have added on the MOSQUITTO broker but have not yet experimented with it.

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 20:13:41 +0000

Sara, given your response to Dominico, you should at least mark this tutorial as deprecated. The Home Assistant UI is much different than it was when this tutorial was created, so it is of very limited usefulness to a beginner like me

By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Thu, 14 May 2020 10:59:54 +0000

In reply to Domenico Carvetta.

Hi Domenico.
Thank you for your suggestion.
Unfortunately, we don’t plan creating tutorials with Home Assistant on a near future.
We’re dedicating time to other projects.
Thanks.
Regards,
Sara

By: Domenico Carvetta

Domenico Carvetta — Wed, 13 May 2020 13:31:57 +0000

Hi Sara, how are you?
Due to Covid-19 pandemy, I have more time to dedicate to some stuff, one especially to Home Assistant.
I installed it, works file and now it looks like a bit different than your precious tutorial.
I ask you, if possible, to add, integrate, extend to some other features and possibility that HA is looking for. For example not only the possibility to have GPIO from the Raspy, but ie. use a dedicated add-on like ESPhome that includes ESP32 and the pre-cessor ESP8266.
What do you think about this? If you wish, I can test some your project even from here to double confirm that everything run okay. Thnaks !!

By: Kavita

Kavita — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 13:05:44 +0000

For some formidable reason, the gpio switch is not showing on the web ui.
please help?
using HA 0.95v

By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 17:44:14 +0000

In reply to Yash. Hi! Unfortunately we don't have any tutorial on that subject.