Installing and running Home Assistant on your local machine is easy. Make sure you have [Python 3.4 or higher](https://www.python.org/downloads/) installed and execute the following code in a console:
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- Install Home Assistant
- Launch Home Assistant and serve the web interface on [http://localhost:8123](http://localhost:8123)
-
-
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If would prefer to watch a video tutorial however, [tktino](https://github.com/tktino) has made some great ones.
- [Windows 10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X27eVvuqwnY)
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-The following configuration has been tested on a Synology 415+ running DSM 5.2-5644 Update 3
+The following configuration has been tested on Synology 415+ running DSM 5.2-5644 Update 3.
Running these commands will:
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- Enable Home Assistant to be launched on [http://localhost:8123](http://localhost:8123)
Using the Synology webadmin:
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- Install python3 using the Synology package centre
- Create homeassistant user and add to the "users" group
SSH onto your synology & login as admin or root
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Check the path to python3 (assumed to be /usr/local/python3/bin)
+
```bash
$ cd /usr/local/python3/bin
```
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Use PIP to install Homeassistant package
+
```bash
$ pip3 install homeassistant
```
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Create homeassistant config directory & switch to it
+
```bash
$ mkdir /volume1/homeassistant
$ cd /volume1/homeassistant
```
+
Create hass-daemon file using the following code (edit the variables in uppercase if necessary)
+
```bash
#!/bin/sh
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exit 0
fi
;;
- restart)
+ restart)
if daemon_status; then
echo Stopping ${DNAME} ...
stop_daemon
echo Starting ${DNAME} ...
start_daemon
- exit $?
+ exit $?
else
echo ${DNAME} is not running
echo Starting ${DNAME} ...
start_daemon
- exit $?
+ exit $?
fi
;;
status)
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exit 1
;;
esac
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```
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Create links to python folders to make things easier in the future:
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```bash
$ ln -s /usr/local/python3/bin python3
$ ln -s /usr/local/python3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant
```
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Set the owner and permissions on your config folder
```bash
$ chown -r homeassistant:users /volume1/homeassistant
$ chmod -r 660 /volume1/homeassistant
```
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Make the daemon file executable:
+
```bash
$ chmod -r 777 /volume1/homeassistant/hass-daemon
```
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Copy your configuration.yaml file into the config folder
That's it... you're all set to go
Here are some useful commands:
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- Start Home Assistant:
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```bash
$ sh hass-daemon start
```
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- Stop Home Assistant:
+
```bash
$ sh hass-daemon stop
```
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- Restart Home Assistant:
+
```bash
$ sh hass-daemon restart
```
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- Upgrade Home Assistant::
+
```bash
$ python3/pip3 install --upgrade homeassistant
```
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