Setup HomeAssistant RaspberryPi with WiFi configured
09 March 2021
Updated: 03 September 2023
A short lil guide to setting up Home Assistant on a RaspberryPi using WiFi instead of Ethernet
- Download Balena Etcher and install from here
- Go to the HomeAssistant website and copy the relevant release URL from here
- Connect your RaspberryPi’s SD card to your computer
- Open Balena Etcher and select
Flash from URL
and select the RaspberryPi’s SD to flash to - Once flashing is complete, open the RaspberryPi’s SD in File Explorer, and create the following file:
RASPBERRYPIDRIVE/CONFIG/network/my-network
1!cat .\my-network2[connection]3id=my-network4uuid=72111c67-4a5d-4d5c-925e-f8ee26efb3c35type=802-11-wireless6[802-11-wireless]7ssid=YOUR_WIFI_NETWORK_NAME8#hidden=true9
10[802-11-wireless-security]11auth-alg=open12key-mgmt=wpa-psk13psk=YOUR_WIFI_PASSWORD14
15[ipv4]16method=auto17
18[ipv6]19addr-gen-mode=stable-privacy20method=auto
Be sure to use
LF
line endings, additional information on this setup can be found on GitHub