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title: "Installing Home Assistant"
description: "Instructions to get started using Home Assistant."
date: 2016-09-26 21:00
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You will need to install Home Assistant before we can get started. You can install Home Assistant on your computer or you can turn a Raspberry Pi into a dedicated Home Assistant hub.

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    <div class='title'>Install Hassbian on your Raspberry Pi 3</div>
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    <div class='title'>Install Home Assistant on your computer</div>
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### {% linkable_title Alternative methods %}

For advanced users we have several alternative guides for installing Home Assistant.

- [Docker](/getting-started/installation-docker/)
- [Manual Raspberry Pi installation](/getting-started/installation-raspberry-pi/) (requires existing Raspbian installation)
- [Raspberry Pi All-In-One Installer Script](/getting-started/installation-raspberry-pi-all-in-one/) (requires existing Raspbian installation)
- [Vagrant](/getting-started/installation-vagrant/)
- [Synology NAS](/getting-started/installation-synology/)
- [Virtualenv Linux](/getting-started/installation-virtualenv/)

[rpi]: /getting-started/installation-raspberry-pi-image/
[python]: /getting-started/installation-python/