Raspbian, Home Assistant and Snips

I want to apologize if this gets a bit long winded or ranty. I’ve been trying to install Home Assistant with Snips AI on a Raspberry Pi 3, but nothing seems as straightforward as I thought.

I’m not a complete noob when it comes to Home Assistant, although I usually let the DietPi install scripts handle the installation for me.

My issue, at the moment, is that my Home Assistant [on the rPi3] is installed in a virtual environment, now I can’t get to the configuration file. My Snips installation [using Sam] also throws up certain error since the ‘homeassistant’ folder isn’t in the standard location.

Has anyone made or come across a start to finish guide on installing Home Assistant with Snips. I’ve been at this for a few days now and every time I fix one problem only for another to rear it’s head.