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1. make home assistant SD card for KinCony Server-16.

download  https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/

2. enable i2c for home assistant.

Add files to enable I2C
In the root of the hassos-boot partition, add a new folder called CONFIG.
In the CONFIG folder, add another new folder called modules.
Inside the modules folder add a text file called rpi-i2c.conf with the following content:
i2c-dev

In the root of the hassos-boot partition, edit the file called config.txt add two lines to it:
dtparam=i2c_vc=on
dtparam=i2c_arm=on

3. install HACS addon (use by SSH)

https://hacs.xyz/docs/setup/download/

4. MCP23008/MCP23017 implementation for Home Assistant (HA)

https://github.com/jpcornil-git/HA-mcp23017

5. config yaml for MCP23017

install file edit add-on for HA , then config yaml

https://www.kincony.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=5438