I will document the process of installing HomeAssistant Raspberry Pi from the zero

1. Burn Raspbian Lite OS on the SD Card

2. Create “ssh” empty file on boot partition to be able to access ssh

3. Connect to Raspberry and change host name and password

   sudo nano /etc/hosts
   sudo nano /etc/hostname
   passwd
   

4. Reboot and connect again

5. Run main configuration - set location, time zone, etc

   sudo raspi-config
   sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade
   

6. Install Docker - following this guide

7. Install Home Assistant - following official guide platform install docker compose also explained here

8. Run Home Assistant with Docker Compose (actually not sure if step with Mosquitto MQTT needed) https://iotechonline.com/home-assistant-install-with-docker-compose/ https://chrisschuld.com/2019/09/running-home-assistant-with-docker/

9. Configure Access Point WLAN - following my guide

10. Install Mosquitto MQTT and configure password- following this guide

11. Configure Samba following this guide

After that system should be ready to run!

Add the optional scripts you like

Other Guides that were useful

• Running Home Assistant with Docker
• HA Install with Docker Compose

Backup was solve in another way with a script - to be versioned

• Backup Docker Base Home Assistant to AWS

Another interesting article about the topic

• HA Panel iframe with external access