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<strong> Applications distributed as Armbian appliance</strong>
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## [Armbian Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/) (home automation)
### Purpose of This Repository
Home Assistant is an open source smart home platform that allows you to connect your smart home devices like your TV, fan, cameras, thermostats, lights, and sensors. As a user, you can build intricate automation using Home Assistant's user-friendly, unified web-based user interface.
This repository provides **ready-to-use Armbian-based OS images** with selected open-source applications preinstalled and preconfigured. These images, known as **Armbian Appliances**, are designed to deliver out-of-the-box functionality while retaining the flexibility and performance of the Armbian base system.
Home Assistant Operating System is tailored for mainstream hardware such as Raspberry Pi and X86, while **Armbian Home Assistance**:
- extends installation to [large selection of devices](https://www.armbian.com/download/),
- provides option to use instance to host other applications,
- allows extended customisation of your OS.
Each appliance image transforms a supported single board computer (SBC) into a dedicated solution, such as:
|Functionality|HAOS|Armbian with HA|
|:--|:--:|:--:|
|Automations|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|
|Dashboards|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|
|Integrations|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|
|Add-ons|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|
|One-click updates|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|
|Backups|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|
|General purpose server|:x:|:white_check_mark:|
|Running on exotic hardware|:x:|:white_check_mark:|
- **Home automation hubs** (e.g. Home Assistant, openHAB)
- **Network-attached storage (NAS)** servers (e.g. OpenMediaVault)
- **Security auditing platforms** (e.g. Kali Linux tools on Armbian)
FAQ:
Compared to traditional application-specific OS builds, Armbian Appliances:
1. Where do I find images for my hardware?
https://www.armbian.com/download -> select your device -> Dedicated applications
- Support a **wider range of hardware** beyond Raspberry Pi or x86
- Allow **running multiple services** alongside the main application
- Provide **full access to the underlying Linux system**
- Are easily reproducible using the [Armbian build framework](https://github.com/armbian/build)
2. How do you generate my own image?
[Follow instructions](https://forum.armbian.com/topic/33245-armbian-with-preinstalled-home-assistant-supervised/).
3. There are no HA images for my device?
If hardware is supported by Armbian ([.conf](https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/main/config/boards)), sent a pull request to the [configuration file](https://github.com/armbian/os/blob/main/userpatches/targets-release-apps.template).
## [Armbian OpenHab](https://www.openhab.org/) (home automation)
## [Armbian Security](https://www.kali.org/) (Security applications - Kali)
## [Armbian OMV](https://www.openmediavault.org/) - (NAS: network attached storage)
Sources: [extensions for Armbian build framework](https://github.com/armbian/os/tree/main/userpatches/extensions)
This repository contains configuration templates and logic for building these appliances, which are then published on [armbian.com/download](https://www.armbian.com/download).