Take Control of your Smarthome with Home Assistant! Installation Tutorial on Proxmox

If you're building your first home server (or following my Ultimate Home Server series!), the first app I recommend playing with is Home Assistant. Taking control of your home automation with free and open-source software is an excellent way to get out of the cloud-based walled gardens, and self-hosting an app like this is a great way to learn about self-hosting in general without the pressure of hosting something like your firewall.

In this video, I go over the process for creating a new virtual machien in Proxmox for Home Assistant, what settings you should choose, and why. I also include the steps to pass through USB hardware such as Zigbee and Z-Wave dongles to your virtual machine. Enjoy!

Where to find the Home Assistant downloads for virtual machines:
https://www.home-assistant.io/install...

Home Assistant Onboarding Guide:
https://www.home-assistant.io/getting...

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:35 - VM Setup
05:34 - Import Image
09:51 - Onboarding
10:46 - USB Passthrough
12:09 - Conclusion

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