{"id":313,"date":"2025-06-09T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2025\/06\/09\/11533777-how-to-use-the-home-assistant-vps-template-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:38:30","slug":"11533777-how-to-use-the-home-assistant-vps-template-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/11533777-how-to-use-the-home-assistant-vps-template-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use the Home Assistant VPS Template at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform designed to help you control, automate, and monitor smart devices through a single, intuitive interface. With the &ldquo;Ubuntu 24.04 with Home Assistant&rdquo; VPS template from Hostinger, Home Assistant comes pre-installed via Docker, allowing you to quickly deploy your own automation server.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_9dfc55ce76\">Accessing Home Assistant<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Once your VPS is deployed with this template, Home Assistant will be running and accessible. To begin the setup, open a web browser and navigate to:<\/p><pre><code>https:\/\/[your-vps-hostname]<\/code><\/pre><p class=\"no-margin\">Replace <code>[your-vps-hostname]<\/code> with the actual hostname of your VPS. This will take you to the Home Assistant onboarding page.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/06\/484af368-a9d7-41cf-a229-10d8f08c5fb9.jpg\" alt=\"Home Assistant welcome screen\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_eeb7739f93\">Completing initial setup<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Upon first access, you&rsquo;ll be prompted to create an administrator account. Enter your name, username, and a secure password to proceed. After creating the account, you can configure basic system settings such as location, time zone, and unit preferences (e.g., Celsius vs. Fahrenheit).<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Once the setup is complete, you&rsquo;ll be taken to the Home Assistant dashboard, where you can begin customizing your environment and adding integrations.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_a80a0d5532\">Managing Home Assistant via Docker<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Since Home Assistant runs in Docker on this VPS template, you can manage the container using standard Docker commands. For example, to view logs or restart the service:<\/p><pre><code>sudo docker ps<br>sudo docker logs homeassistant<br>sudo docker restart homeassistant<\/code><\/pre><h2 id=\"h_e2704c311f\">Updating Home Assistant<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">To update Home Assistant to the latest stable version, follow these steps from your VPS terminal:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Pull the latest image:<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><pre><code>docker pull ghcr.io\/home-assistant\/home-assistant:stable<\/code><\/pre><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Stop and remove the existing container:<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><pre><code>docker compose stop homeassistant<br>docker compose rm homeassistant<\/code><\/pre><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Start a new container with the updated image:<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><pre><code>docker compose -f \/root\/docker-compose.yaml up -d<\/code><\/pre><p class=\"no-margin\">This process will update your installation while preserving your configuration data stored in <code>\/root\/homeassistant<\/code>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">With the &ldquo;Ubuntu 24.04 with Home Assistant&rdquo; VPS template, you can easily deploy a self-hosted smart home automation server. The pre-configured Docker setup ensures a quick and smooth start, allowing you to begin building your smart home environment immediately. For more advanced usage, integrations, and automation examples, visit the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.home-assistant.io\/docs\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Home Assistant documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting started with Home Assistant on your Hostinger VPS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vps-os-and-templates"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/11533777-how-to-use-the-home-assistant-vps-template-at-hostinger\/","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5760,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/5760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}