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It is. The OS is Raspbian. Home Assistant is an ecosystem that runs on a customized install, like other images for pis (Kodi OS, RetroPie, etc)
by humanistbot 4y ago
It is. The OS is Raspbian. Home Assistant is an ecosystem that runs on a customized install, like other images for pis (Kodi OS, RetroPie, etc)
- joshu 4y agoexcept they make it for a variety of platforms. why does this need significant changes to the OS? It reeks of bad engineering to me.
- Nextgrid 4y agoBecause it wants to act as an appliance and manage the whole system itself including network configuration, updates, etc. For most users this is the correct approach, though you can opt-out and manually run the actual application in a Python virtualenv on a distro of your choice (in this case HA won't be able to manage the system and updates will need to be done manually from the command-line).