Installing Home Assistant, Mosquitto & AppDaemon on Debian

Update 2021-03-24: Since writing this article, the dependencies for Home Assistant haven’t changed much, however new VM images are now being released that have all the work done for you. I’d now reccomend using one of these instead of the steps detailed below.

As part of some hardware upgrades, I’m moving Home Assistant and it’s associated programs off it’s shared box onto a dedicated VM. This means a fresh install of everything. Whilst docker would usually be an ideal candidate for this, I decided against it because I use a few custom components and troubleshooting these is a lot easier without Docker.

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