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

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.

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 ...

All you need to install any version of Raspberry Pi OS is the Imager tool, an SD card and reader, and around ten minutes.

3. Preparing the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Next, disable the 'process of booting the OS from eMMC flash memory' so that you can write the OS to the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5.

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