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Hassbian is our customized operating system for the Raspberry Pi Zero, 2,3 and 3B+. It is one of the easiest ways of installing Home Assistant.

• Install Hassbian
• Customize your installation
• Pi specific integrations
• Learn how to perform common tasks

{% linkable_title Activating the virtual environment %}

When instructions tell you to activate the virtual environment to install a Python library, or perform some tasks, the following commands will do this:

$ sudo -u homeassistant -H -s
$ source /srv/homeassistant/bin/activate```