I had a Raspberry Pi 5 sitting around, and after some research, I decided to install Home Assistant on it.

Home Assistant allows you to integrate and automate your smart home gadgets. Here's how to set it up on a Raspberry Pi.

While I did install Home Assistant on a microSD card, it felt more responsive on the SSD. I followed these steps to install Home Assistant Supervised on Raspberry Pi OS Lite based on Debian 12 ...

In order to install Home Assistant, you'll need a microSD card that can fit into your Raspberry Pi. When you're getting started, running Home Assistant from the SD card shouldn't be an issue.