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Marco Carvalho
Marco Carvalho
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Marco Carvalho

Marco Carvalho is an experienced home automation hobbyist engineer, electrical engineer, and technician. Pursuing his passion for electronics and embedded systems, he created an embedded home automation task scheduler using X10 Home Automation devices in 2006. Nowadays, he uses wireless electronic devices and the Home Assistant software to build different smart home automation applications. As an MSc in Computer Science, Marco has worked with several well-known companies such as IBM, Jabil, Phillips, and Hexagon where he extended his support in development and manufacturing of electronic products. At the time of this publication, he is the Director of Engineering for Apex Microtechnology, where he is involved in the development of high power, high precision analog components.
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Installing Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi

To install Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi, you will need the following material:

  • The hardware required to prepare the Home Assistant software in the SD card
    • An SD card reader used to prepare the SD card for installation using a computer
    • A desktop or laptop computer
  • Home automation server:
    • Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 4 GB (recommended, but others can be used)
    • A Raspberry Pi case
    • Raspberry Pi power supply (15 W minimum)
    • 32 GB SD card minimum
  • Peripherals used just for installation with the Raspberry Pi:
    • A router connected to the internet
    • An Ethernet cable

Preparing the SD card for Home Assistant installation

The installation type used in this chapter and in the first, second, and third parts of this book (up to Chapter 7) will be the recommended installation method, the HAOS. This includes the Supervisor software to manage the Home Assistant Core and to install the add-ons.

To prepare the SD card with the image software required...

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Marco Carvalho

Marco Carvalho is an experienced home automation hobbyist engineer, electrical engineer, and technician. Pursuing his passion for electronics and embedded systems, he created an embedded home automation task scheduler using X10 Home Automation devices in 2006. Nowadays, he uses wireless electronic devices and the Home Assistant software to build different smart home automation applications. As an MSc in Computer Science, Marco has worked with several well-known companies such as IBM, Jabil, Phillips, and Hexagon where he extended his support in development and manufacturing of electronic products. At the time of this publication, he is the Director of Engineering for Apex Microtechnology, where he is involved in the development of high power, high precision analog components.
Read more about Marco Carvalho