Installation
Home Assistant offers four different installation methods. We recommend using one of the following two methods:
- Home Assistant Operating System: Minimal Operating System optimized to power Home Assistant. It comes with Supervisor to manage Home Assistant Core and pre-installed add-ons. Recommended installation method.
- Home Assistant Container: Standalone container-based installation of Home Assistant Core (e.g. Docker).
There are two alternative installation methods available for experienced users:
- Home Assistant Supervised: Manual installation of the Supervisor.
- Home Assistant Core: Manual installation using Python virtual environment.
The list below shows the installation method available based on the device and platform being used.
We recommend a dedicated system to run Home Assistant. If you are unsure of what to choose, using a Raspberry Pi and the Home Assistant Operating System is a good start.
If you are using the Home Assistant Blue, the Home Assistant Operating System is already installed. So you can skip this installation step.
ODROID
ODROID
- Home Assistant Operating System
- Home Assistant Container
- Home Assistant Core
Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi
- Home Assistant Operating System
- Home Assistant Container
- Home Assistant Core
ASUS Tinkerboard
ASUS Tinkerboard
- Home Assistant Operating System
- Home Assistant Container
- Home Assistant Core
Intel NUC
Intel NUC
- Home Assistant Operating System
- Home Assistant Container
- Home Assistant Core
Windows
Windows
- Home Assistant Operating System (VM)
- Home Assistant Core
macOS
macOS
- Home Assistant Operating System (VM)
- Home Assistant Core
Linux
Linux
- Home Assistant Operating System (VM)
- Home Assistant Container
- Home Assistant Core
- Home Assistant Supervised
Alternative
Alternative
VM's not covered by other categories, NAS installations and community guides
Compare Installation Methods
| OS | Container | Core | Supervised | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automations | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Lovelace | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Integrations | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Blueprints | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Uses container | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Supervisor | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Add-ons | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Snapshots | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Managed OS | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
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