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## Community provided guides

Additional installation guides can be found on our [Community Forum](https://community.home-assistant.io/tags/c/community-guides/51/installation).

These Community Guides are provided as-is. Some of these install methods are more limited than the methods above. Some integrations may not work due to limitations of the platform.