Home Assistant Core

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Welcome to the world of Home Assistant is open source software for creating a smart home,

Warning!
After Home Assistant as been installed, it can take upto 20 minutes to start please be patient it will start.


Once it started you will need to create a user account


Please enter the following details

Name:
User:
Password:

then click create account

the next screen is to set up your Home

you can Click Detect then click next


the next screen is for Devices and Services click the three-dot for a list of devices, but you can add later if needed so click finish

you are now all set up the next screen will be the home assistant page for more help please look at google or youtube for home assistant beginners guides

update button


Updater

Updater is an app that on the menu option on home Assistant that will update to the new version of Home Assistant, there is an option to Downgrade by type the version you would like to install by clicking downgrade




this updater app is created for home Assistant by Sanjit Chakrabarti working on GSoC 2019

Start/Stop/Restart Home Assistant


stop home Assistant service

sudo systemctl stop homeassistant.service


start home Assistant service

sudo systemctl start homeassistant.service


restart home Assistant service

sudo systemctl restart homeassistant.service


status of home Assistant service

sudo systemctl status homeassistant.service

if you can not restart the home assistant you can always restart it using Amahi home server page then setting then server look for Home Assistant Server you can stop or restart on this page if needed

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Troubleshooting

If you are unable to edit any files in the Homeassistant share

Change file rights by running the command

sudo chmod 777 /var/hda/files/homeassistant/*.*