Part 1: Home Assistant Reboot V2

I decided to do a complete reboot of my home automation system. The idea is to install the hass.io image and completely restart from scratch.

Taking notes along the way so I remember the modifications I have done.

1. First step is making a complete backup of the old home assistant configuration. For windows I used the following image writer tool:
   1. https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
2. Backup of a 128 gig microSD card took about an hour. In the mean time, I scanned in my home blueprint layout and worked on physically identifying the hardware I’m working with.
   1. Used iPad Pro 12.9 with Apple Pencil and Paper by FiftyThree App.
   2. Used Scannable App on iPhone X to scan in and cut the blue print of my Condo.

1. Flashed the microSD card clean using the diskpart, list disk, select disk, clean cmd.
   1. https://www.howtogeek.com/235824/how-to-clean-a-flash-drive-sd-card-or-internal-drive-to-fix-partition-and-capacity-problems/
2. Downloaded hass.io and installed it via Etcher.
   1. https://etcher.io/
   2. https://www.home-assistant.io/getting-started/
3. As Home Assistant downloads… time to start thinking of the automation ideas.
4. Watch cat do yoga.