I almost got put off trying Home Assistant on my Mac because of the complex/useless installation instructions in the docs. For HA-OS, there's no KVM for macOS (you'd have to use QEMU), and VirtualBox is (still?) unavailable for current ARM (Apple Silicon) Macs.
And the instructions for HA Core are off-puttingly involved, probably more useful for someone developing HA than for an end user. (... possibly a Python ecosystem-level problem...)
Fortunately, it's actually much easier than any of that. I just gave feedback so hopefully it will be fixed in place, but just in case here's my instructions.
It's as simple as using pipx to install Home Assistant.
$ pipx install homeassistant
Pipx allows you to install any Python pip package as if it was a "normal" CLI tool. You can install pipx easily through brew. I love Pipx.
When a new version appears, just do
$ pipx upgrade homeassistant
Brew also has the Home Assistant Companion app, which is pretty good!
$ brew install home-assistant
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