Try Home Assistant FOR FREE in less than 10 minutes! No Raspberry Pi needed!

When I was getting started with home assistant a few years ago, I remember being put off with thinking it was hard and expensive to get up and running. This isn't true, and you can get started with it within 10 minutes easily.

Note that for this method, you'll need to be running Mac or Linux - it's still possible on Windows, but you'll need to do it through a Virtual Machine, as windows doesn't support the Docker Host configuration.

This is the Docker Compose YAML I use in the video:
```
version: '3'
services:
homeassistant:
container_name: home-assistant
image: ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable
volumes:
/Users/ben/Desktop/home-assistant/config:/config
/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
"8123:8123"
```

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:07 Different installation methods
02:09 Docker desktop
02:32 Docker compose
04:19 Config files
05:15 Launching Home Assistant
06:07 Setting up some integrations
09:05 Adding an automation
10:01 Outro

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