After installing Home Assistant OS, it’s time to set it up: First login, network configuration, Wi-Fi setup and a clean backup strategy. This section shows step by step how to set up Home Assistant correctly after the start – including USB stick on the FritzBox as SMB network drive and automatic backups without add-ons.
The good news is that once it’s up and running, it works perfectly and has a great, self-explanatory user interface.
Home Assistant is the most powerful open source system for smart home automation. In the following instructions, I will show you how I installed Home Assistant OS on a Raspberry Pi 5 on an NVMe SSD. The goal was a high-performance, long-lasting setup without a microSD card in continuous operation.
I used the following components for my setup:
For Zigbee integration, I use the RaspBee II module, the SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus, which connects to the Raspberry Pi via USB. I took the detour via a microSD card with Pi OS Lite, as the NVMe cannot be integrated as an external drive or similar. I discarded the attempt with the RaspBee II module because I couldn’t get the system to run stably that way.