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title: "Home Assistant"
description: "Manage your Home Assistant and custom add-ons."
redirect_from: /integrations/hassio/
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Home Assistant turns your Raspberry Pi (or another device) into the ultimate home automation hub. With Home Assistant, you can focus on integrating your devices and writing automations.

[Go to the installation instructions »][install]

The advantages of using Home Assistant:

- Free and open source
- Optimized for embedded devices like Raspberry Pi
- 100% local home automation
- Easy installation and updates (powered by the [Home Assistant Operating System] and [Home Assistant Core])
- Management web interface integrated into Home Assistant
- Create and restore full backups of your whole configuration with ease
- Install many popular add-ons with a single click! For example [Google Assistant], encryption via [Let's Encrypt] and dynamic DNS via [Duck DNS].<br><br>[Browse available add-ons &raquo;][all]<br><br>
- Active community that is helpful and sharing add-ons including AppDaemon, Homebridge and InfluxDB.<br><br>[Browse the forums &raquo;][forums]<br>[Join the Home Assistant chat &raquo;][chat]<br>[Browse community add-on repositories &raquo;][comm-add-ons]<br><br>

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### Upgrading

Home Assistant users can update via the 'Supervisor' panel in the UI when a new version is released.

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Home Assistant dashboard with upgrade notification (under the hamburger menu -> Supervisor)
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[Google Assistant]: /addons/google_assistant/
[Snips.ai]: /addons/snips/
[Let's Encrypt]: /addons/lets_encrypt/
[Duck DNS]: /addons/duckdns/
[forums]: https://community.home-assistant.io/c/hass-io
[comm-add-ons]: https://community.home-assistant.io/tags/hassio-repository
[all]: /addons/
[chat]: https://discord.gg/K3UVxJd
[Home Assistant Operating System]: https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system
[Home Assistant Core]: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/installation/
[install]: /hassio/installation/