Installing Home Assistant in python virtual environment on Ubuntu 18.04

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This is a video on how to install Home Assistant in a python virtual environment on Ubuntu 18.04


Here is a link to get you started.....

https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/installation/virtualenv/

As always, i like to start out by making sure my system is up to date....

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Once that is done, there are a couple of prerequisites we need to install....

sudo apt install python3-pip python3-venv

After that we can setup our virtual environment....

python3 -m venv homeassistant
cd homeassistant
source bin/activate

python3 -m pip install wheel

now we are ready to install home assistant....

python3 -m pip install homeassistant

Once its installed, you can make sure everything installed properly by running it manually....

hass --open-ui

now we are going to setup a service file so we can run HASS as a service....

make sure you know the path to your HASS install
whereis hass

This should display the path to your HASS install. Now lets create the service file....

sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/homeassistant@adrian.service

[Unit]
Description=Home Assistant
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=%i
ExecStart=/home/adrian/homeassistant/bin/hass -c "/home/adrian/.homeassistant"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Once that is done save it and lets set it up....

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable homeassistant@adrian.service
sudo systemctl start homeassistant@adrian.service
sudo systemctl status homeassistant@adrian.service

At this point you should be done, you can now move over to the web frontend and see what it looks like....

http://10.10.10.235:8123 (the IP is the IP of your machine that you installed it on and 8123 is the default port)

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