Applications distributed as Armbian appliance
Armbian Home Assistant (home automation)
Home Assistant is an open source smart home platform that allows you to connect your smart home devices like your TV, fan, cameras, thermostats, lights, and sensors. As a user, you can build intricate automation using Home Assistant's user-friendly, unified web-based user interface.
Home Assistant Operating System is tailored for mainstream hardware such as Raspberry Pi and X86, while Armbian Home Assistance:
- extends installation to large selection of devices,
- provides option to use instance to host other applications,
- allows extended customisation of your OS.
| Functionality | HAOS | Armbian with HA |
|---|---|---|
| Automations | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Dashboards | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Integrations | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Add-ons | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| One-click updates | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Backups | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| General purpose server | ❌ | ✅ |
| Running on exotic hardware | ❌ | ✅ |
FAQ:
- Where do I find images for my hardware?
https://www.armbian.com/download -> select your device -> Dedicated applications
- How do you generate my own image?
- There are no HA images for my device?
If hardware is supported by Armbian (.conf), sent a pull request to the configuration file.