Home Assistant

Install Home Assistant from scratch on an existing raspbian install

1. Install 2021-03-04-raspios-buster-armhf-lite.zip using balena etcher

2. Prepare the image as per usual pi installation

   1. Make sure remote ssh is enabled

   2. Hostname is set

3. Build Python3 from source. The version in the pi instance is too old

   1. wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.4/Python-3.9.4.tgz

   2. tar xf Python-3.9.0.tar.xz

   3. cd Python-3.9.0

   4. sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

   5. ./configure --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions && make && sudo make install

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