Home Assistant
Installation
My Home Assistant setup was a little more complicated than it probably had to be, but it wasn’t that bad. The main added complexity came from the fact that I wanted to run it off a cheap SSD on my Raspberry Pi. Step 1 for that was installing Home Assistant on the SSD I was using.
Then I needed to tell the Pi to boot from the SSD (which was connected via a Pineberry Pi hat). So I installed the Raspberry Pi OS on an SD card like I normally would.
Then I SSHed into the Pi and changed the eeprom config with the command sudo rpi-eeprom-config --edit.
I changed the file to read like the image below to boot from the SSD (note the 6 at the end of the boot order).
And then I rebooted the Pi, and Home Assistant was ready to go!
Certificates
With that done, I did some basic configuration to get certificates on the Home Assistant server, starting with some Add-ons in the settings.
Specifically the two I needed were “File Explorer” and “Let’s Encrypt”, so I added those via the Add-on interface.
Using “File Explorer”, I navigated to the “secrets.yaml” file and added my Cloudflare API key.
Then I went back to the Add-ons page, and configured Let’s Encrypt to use my Cloudflare API key to get certificates for my desired FQDN.
