Install Home Assistant on Arch Linux
Home Assistant is a Python 3 based home automation platform that can interface with a plethora of devices. It is relatively new and thus requires some knowledge especially when configuring it. Most of the configuration is done via YAML config file.
Install Home Assistant
Install Python 3 from the official repository.
sudo pacman -S python
Install Packer on Arch Linux, install Yaourt or use another package wrapper.
Install Python 3 package manager from AUR with packer.
sudo pacman -S python-pip
Install the package with pip.
sudo pip3 install homeassistant
Error message Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement home-assistant (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for home-assistant may mean that the wrong pip version is used, for example instead of pip3.
Update the package with pip.
sudo pip3 install --upgrade homeassistant
Configure Home Assistant
Create a system account and group.
sudo useradd -r -s /bin/false hass
Create a systemd script.
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/home-assistant.service
Copy the script and save.
[Unit] Description=Home Assistant After=network.target [Service] User=hass Group=hass Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/bin/hass --config /var/lib/home-assistant [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Create configuration directory.
sudo mkdir /var/lib/home-assistant
Start manually for the first time to create the default configuration file.
sudo hass --config /var/lib/home-assistant
Change the owner permissions of the configuration directory.
sudo chown -R hass:hass /var/lib/home-assistant
Open the configuration file and add all options here when needed.
sudo nano /var/lib/configuration.yaml
Run Home Assistant
Start the systemd service.
sudo systemctl start home-assistant
Enable the systemd service to run on boot.
sudo systemctl enable home-assistant
Use Home Assistant
Default port is 8123 unless it has been changed manually. Change 192.168.0.100 to the actual IP address of the server. Access Home Assistant via its web interface on 192.168.0.100:8123 and configure it from the settings page.