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Home Assistant Operating System

Embedded operating system optimized for Home Assistant

Home Automation ★ 7.4k stars Easy setup Apache-2.0

Home Assistant Operating System is a minimal embedded OS designed to run the Home Assistant smart home platform with add-on support. It manages updates and add-ons through the Supervisor.

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Key features

  • Purpose-built OS for HA
  • Add-on store via Supervisor
  • Automatic updates
  • Runs on Pi and x86

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Easiest full-featured HA install
  • Managed add-ons

Trade-offs

  • Takes over the whole device
  • Less general-purpose

Home Assistant Operating System replaces

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