Install manually on rasbian as pi user?

Installation
1

Is it possible to install HA on Rasiban as the pi user, and not setup a system account “homeassistant”?

I ask because I have all of my other servers/services running as Pi, and it will make my management and maintenance of the system much easier, rather than having to deal with the permissions of the .yaml files, and have to switch to the homeassistant to update or do other tasks.

Would this be the procedure to install HA as the pi user on raspbian?

ssh pi@ipadress
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get install python3 python3-venv python3-pip
cd /srv
sudo mkdir homeassistant
cd /srv/homeassistant
python3 -m venv .
source bin/activate
pip3 install homeassistant
hass

Configure servicectl as per usual.

2

I don’t see why this wouldn’t work just fine

3

Yes, that’ll work fine - as long as you’re on Raspbian Stretch (and so Python 3.5.3).

The use of a separate account is just for separation (and some security benefits). It isn’t strictly necessary.

4

Indeed, I’m on Rasbian Stretch.

Thank you both!