This will be a super easy step-by-step tutorial of
how to install Home Assistant OS on Raspberry Pi 5. Where step 1 is to get the needed parts which
are Raspberry Pi 5 and an SD card. All Raspberry Pi 5 models with 2, 4 and 8Gigs of RAM are just
fine for Home Assistant. Along with the Raspberry you will need a 27W USB-C Power Supply to power
up the device. Try to get an original one if you don’t want to have issues. A Raspberry Pi Case is
optional, but if you decide to buy one make sure that it is having an active cooling. Next and
final thing is an SD card. Any card bigger than 16GB should be enough, but try to get at least
32GB and the faster SD card the better. I will list some links in the video description to some
recommended SD cards and Raspberry Pi 5 devices, their power supplies and good cases if
you want to check their current prices. Step 2 is to download and install the Raspberry
PI Imager tool from the raspberry pi website, the exact link can be found again in the video
description and this tool is available for all major operating systems Windows, Linux & Mac. I’m
using Mac OS here, but the look and feel is the same for all. Start the Raspberry Pi Imager select
Raspberry Pi 5 as device, click on CHOOSE OS, find other specific-purpose OS section then look for
the Home assistants and home automation, select Home Assistant & one more time Home Assistant.
At the time of shooting this video the latest Home Assistant OS version is 11.5 and it is in a
preview state, but if you see a different version here don’t worry just select it. After that,
insert your SD card in your computer you will need a card reader or SD card slot for that part and
click on STORAGE button, then select your SD card which will be entirely erased and Home Assistant
OS will be written on it in just several minutes. And here comes Step 3. After writing of the Home
Assistant OS on your SD card is finished. Unplug the SD card from your computer and plug it in
your Raspberry Pi 5. Connect your Raspberry to your home network with a LAN cable and connect the
power supply so the device to start booting. Wait a minute or two then, try open a browser from your
computer or phone connected to the same network where your Raspberry Pi 5 is connected and type
http://homeassistant.local:8123 if this doesn’t work for some reason, for example: if you have a
running home assistant already you should find the IP of your Raspberry Pi 5 device from your router
interface and you should use that IP instead of the above mentioned hostname. My Raspberry Pi 5
is having the following ip 10.0.0.31 I will type that IP in my browser then I’ll type colon and
8123 as a port and here it is I’m able to see a screen saying that installation of Home Assistant
is in progress and I have to wait few minutes more. If you run into some issues at this point,
make sure that your Raspberry Pi 5 is having an Internet access as it may need to download the
latest Home Assistant images from the Internet. After a while you should see a welcome screen
which is the step 4 of our journey. Namely this is the Home Assistant onboarding process.
The first thing here that I want to mention is that you can select your language from this
dropdown list. After that, you have two options: to restore from backup, which is great if you
already have a Home Assistant and you wish to move that existing installation to your new and
shiny Raspberry Pi 5 device. If that is the case, just select restore from backup and select your
full home assistant backup file from the dialog that will be shown. The other option is to
start from scratch by clicking on the CREATE MY SMART HOME button. Doing so, you will
be guided through few easy steps where the first one is to enter a username and password
for your Home Assistant. On the next screen, you can select your location and you can
use the search field or the map or both. After that you can decide whether to share
anonymised information from your installation or not and you can open that link to learn more
if that is needed. I will share everything here, as I have nothing to hide and I’m willing
to help, but you may decide otherwise. On the next screen Home Assistant will eventually
find some compatible devices in your home and this is just for your information only. It is
not possible to setup & configure these devices at this point but you can do that at later stage
from the Home Assistant settings.. And this is it Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi 5 up and running.
This is the main Home Assistant dashboard with the dark theme but I personally prefer light theme
and I will change that by clicking on my username. More info can be found in my Home
Assistant webinar which is absolutely free. Thanks for watching, I’m Kiril
and I will see you in the next one. Bye
