ODROID

MY_TIME_ZONE is a tz database name, like TZ=America/Los_Angeles.

Once the Home Assistant Container is running Home Assistant should be accessible using http://:8123 (replace with the hostname or IP of the system). You can continue with onboarding.

Onboarding

If you change the configuration, you have to restart the server. To do that you have 3 options.

docker compose should already be installed on your system. If not, you can manually install it.

As the Docker command becomes more complex, switching to docker compose can be preferable and support automatically restarting on failure or system restart. Create a compose.yml file:

Start it by running:

Once the Home Assistant Container is running, Home Assistant should be accessible using http://:8123 (replace with the hostname or IP of the system). You can continue with onboarding.

Onboarding

In order to use Zigbee or other integrations that require access to devices, you need to map the appropriate device into the container. Ensure the user that is running the container has the correct privileges to access the /dev/tty* file, then add the device mapping to your container instructions:

The Home Assistant Container is using an alternative memory allocation library jemalloc for better memory management and Python runtime speedup.

As jemalloc can cause issues on certain hardware, it can be disabled by passing the environment variable DISABLE_JEMALLOC with any value, for example:

The error message : Unsupported system page size is one known indicator.

This is an advanced installation process, and some steps might differ on your system. Considering the nature of this installation type, we assume you can handle subtle differences between this document and the system configuration you are using. When in doubt, please consider one of the other installation methods, as they might be a better fit instead.

This guide assumes that you already have an operating system setup and have installed Python 3.11 (including the package python3-dev) or newer.

Before you start, make sure your system is fully updated, all packages in this guide are installed with apt, if your OS does not have that, look for alternatives.

Install the dependencies:

The above-listed dependencies might differ or missing, depending on your system or personal use of Home Assistant.

Add an account for Home Assistant Core called homeassistant. Since this account is only for running Home Assistant Core the extra arguments of -rm is added to create a system account and create a home directory. The arguments -G dialout,gpio,i2c adds the user to the dialout, gpio and the i2c group. The first is required for using Z-Wave and Zigbee controllers, while the second is required to communicate with GPIO.

First we will create a directory for the installation of Home Assistant Core and change the owner to the homeassistant account.

Next up is to create and change to a virtual environment for Home Assistant Core. This will be done as the homeassistant account.

Once you have activated the virtual environment (notice the prompt change to (homeassistant) homeassistant@raspberrypi:/srv/homeassistant $) you will need to run the following command to install a required Python package.

Once you have installed the required Python package, it is now time to install Home Assistant Core!

Start Home Assistant Core for the first time. This will complete the installation for you, automatically creating the .homeassistant configuration directory in the /home/homeassistant directory, and installing any basic dependencies.

You can now reach your installation via the web interface on http://homeassistant.local:8123.

If this address doesn’t work you may also try http://localhost:8123 or http://X.X.X.X:8123 (replace X.X.X.X with your machines’ IP address).

When you run the hass command for the first time, it will download, install and cache the necessary libraries/dependencies. This procedure may take anywhere between 5 to 10 minutes. During that time, you may get a site cannot be reached error when accessing the web interface. This will only happen the first time. Subsequent restarts will be much faster.

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