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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Why is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages? (self.homeassistant)

submitted 2 months ago by rah to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's most often installed as HAOS, which is a dedicated operating system that just runs Home Assistant. That is how anyone installing it on say, a Raspberry Pi, is likely to do it.

Home Assistant as a project is far more popular than every single other consumer focused server and as such it is often the first home server (and sometimes only) that many consumers will experience.