Home Assistant is an open-source platform that allows you to control your home automation devices. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Home Assistant on OpenSUSE Latest.
Before installing Home Assistant, it is recommended that you update your system to ensure that all packages are up to date. To do this, open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo zypper update
Home Assistant requires Python 3 and some additional dependencies. Start by installing these packages:
sudo zypper install python3 python3-pip python3-devel libffi-devel libopenssl-devel libyaml-devel
Once you have installed the required dependencies, you can proceed with the installation of Home Assistant itself. You can do this by running the following command:
pip3 install homeassistant
Once you have installed Home Assistant, you can start the service by running the following command:
hass
This will start the Home Assistant server in the foreground. You can now access the Home Assistant web interface by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8123. You can also connect to Home Assistant remotely by replacing localhost with the IP address of your OpenSUSE machine.
By default, Home Assistant does not have any devices or integrations configured. To connect your home automation devices and other integrations, you will need to modify the configuration.yaml file. This file is located at /home/your_username/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml.
Once you have modified the configuration file, restart Home Assistant by pressing Ctrl+C and then running the command hass again.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Home Assistant on OpenSUSE Latest. By following these steps, you should now have a working installation of Home Assistant that you can use to manage your home automation devices.
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