Installing and running Home Assistant on your local machine is easy. Make sure you have [Python 3.4](https://www.python.org/downloads/) installed and execute the following code in a console: ```bash $ pip3 install homeassistant $ hass --open-ui ``` Running these commands will: - Install Home Assistant - Launch Home Assistant and serve web interface on [http://localhost:8123](http://localhost:8123)

Installation with Docker is straightforward. Adjust the following command so that `/path/to/your/config/` points at the folder where you want to store your config and run it: ```bash $ docker run -d --name="home-assistant" -v /path/to/your/config:/config -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro --net=host balloob/home-assistant ``` This will launch Home Assistant and serve its web interface from port 8123 on your Docker host.

When using boot2docker on OS X you are unable to map the local time to your Docker container. Replace `-v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro` with `-e "TZ=America/Los_Angeles"` (replacing America/Los_Angeles with [your timezone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones))

Home Assistant requires the Raspberry Pi to run [Raspbian Jessie](https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/). This version has been released on September 24, 2015 and comes by default with Python 3.4 which is required for Home Assistant. Execute the following code in a console: ```bash $ pip3 install homeassistant $ hass --open-ui ``` Running these commands will: - Install Home Assistant - Launch Home Assistant and serve web interface on [http://localhost:8123](http://localhost:8123)