#Baby Steps

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candid willow
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Hi All

I hope this is the right place to put this. I'm just starting my journey. I have the total amount of (wait for it......) 3 smart bulbs so far and think it's probably a good idea to get into Home Assistant at the beginning.

I have a few of questions in my head which I'm hoping you knowledgeable people can answer.

  1. I am going to use a Raspberry Pi 5 and have a SATA SSD I'd like to use instead of an SD card, what is the best way to do this. I've read it can improve performance

  2. Can I set up different dashboards for different users? Maybe a master Dashboard for me, one for the kids and a different on for my wife?

  3. I currently use google home to control everything, can this run alongside Home assistant?

Thanks

fiery basin
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I believe there are some settings for different users. I haven't made any extra accounts for my HA so I think it would be best to play around with the settings.

mossy bramble
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To set-up different dashboards for users you can use the Browser-Mod addon:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-to-per-user-dashboard/656305/9

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How to: Per user Dashboard

hello all, is there any update on this? I haven’t been able to find any other way of setting a dashboard for a specific user yet, that can be done only through the UI. It would be extremely useful to have a dashboard tied to a specific user (and you as the admin to set that dashboard for them with only specific items you want them to see and ...

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For installing on an SSD:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/installing-home-assistant-on-a-rpi-4b-with-ssd-boot/

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Installing Home Assistant on a RPi 4b with SSD boot

[UPDATE 2020-10-14 by @Jpsy ]: Added instructions to update HA OS through CLI. [UPDATE 2020-10-18 by @Jpsy ]: More details added on installing and using Raspberry OS to update the EEPROM firmware. [UPDATE 2020-10-20 by @Jpsy ]: Infos added on using Raspberry OS “headless” through SSH (no monitor or keyboard attached). Thanks to @LondonBenj...