Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
Improves Mac install instructions
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
  • Loading branch information
heythisisnate committed Jul 10, 2024
1 parent b25d6c0 commit 324bc34
Showing 1 changed file with 18 additions and 6 deletions.
24 changes: 18 additions & 6 deletions guides/installing_esphome.rst
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -49,14 +49,26 @@ with the following:
Mac
---

There are no tested installation instructions for Mac. ESPHome does support
Mac & will run with no problem.
The simplest way to install ESPHome on a Mac is with `Homebrew<https://brew.sh/>`:

Contributions are welcome!
.. code-block:: console
$ brew install esphome
Or, if you have a working Python installation you can install it directly without Homebrew.
There are several ways to install Python on a Mac, including with Homebrew, Apple's X-Code command
line tools, or from `official packages<https://www.python.org/downloads/>`.

Make sure you're running python 3.9 or above, then install using ``pip3``:

.. code-block:: console
$ python3 --version
Python 3.9.15
$ pip3 install esphome
The process will likely be similar to Windows. You can install Python from the
official site, and then install ESPHome with ``pip3 install esphome``. You can
then test that things are properly installed with the following:
You can then test that things are properly installed with the following:

.. code-block:: console
Expand Down

0 comments on commit 324bc34

Please sign in to comment.