Sigh. Arch linux is kicking me...

[Howard White]

So the joke is on me. I've been whacking on the open source home
automation systems openhab and home assistant (hass) for a while now.

"Just install our Raspberry Pi packages and it just works." Um, no it
does not. Me thinks my Pi is less than stable.

Down the openhab rabbit hole. Cannot get the correct config juju for
the USB Z-Wave dongle. It's just laughing at me... Did figure out
JAVA_HOME.

Back to home assistant. Everything says install the Docker version but
no one says why. Well, the why is because home assistant is written to
Python 3.x (preferably 3.7) _but_ the major distros all still have
critical stuff that only runs with Python 2.x. C'mmon Man!

So being the stubborn cuss that I am, is there a distro that uses Python
3.x by default? You guessed it - Arch linux. The Arch install process
is, um, involved. Got it installed and running. But wait, you want
your Realtek RTL8111 network interface? Bwahahahahaha.

~!@#$%^&*

Howard

[Greg Donald]

My Debian and RPi each have two pythons with different names:

$ which python
/usr/bin/python

$ which python3
/usr/bin/python3

Is it just a matter of updating some shebangs to point to the
appropriate python?

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[Howard White]

Greg,

Mine also. Your logic is great. The logic of some developers, like
those at hass - not so much. They seem to think everybody loves jails
and Docker and VM. Ugh.

Howard

[Csaba Toth]

Correct, python 2.7 and 3.x can live next to each other.

Howard have you tried any Pi specific distributions, preferably maybe testing channel if you need more cutting edge?

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