Raspberry Pi image for Home Automation - Wifi setup!

[renegadeandy]

Hi!

I installed the RPi 3 OS using the instructions found here

Everything boots up fine - but of course, directly into the container running Home Assistant and I cannot seem to exit to sort out wifi.

Can you please explain how I configure Wifi in this installation type?

[woempiej]

Guide: Connecting Pi with Home Assistant OS to wifi (or other networking changes)

You can now configure WiFi settings from the UI at the Supervisor > System > Host card and clicking on “change”. Alternate method for WiFi (or setting Static IP) on HA OS If you are having problems creating a working network keyfile or importing the keyfile, this alternate method might work for you. It could also be that you have some other problem so this is not a “cure-all” for your WiFi/network issues. NOTE: WiFi is not recommended at all, don’t use it. The short version: Install the …

[nickrout]

Believe me, you don’t want to run ha in wifi.

[renegadeandy]

Can you explain the reasoning behind that? Beyond what is discussed here - it seems it comes down to normal best practice for server based systems to be best in class connection types hence avoid WiFi, but i don’t think its to do with HA in particular inless I am missing something.