Autostart Home Assistant on raspbian

Installation
1

hello all, i’m new in this community,
i want to auto-start HA when boot,

when i want to operate HA i write:

cd homeassistant
source bin/activate
hass

this is the homeassistant.service file that i made:

[Unit]
Description=Home Assistant
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=homeassistant
ExecStartPre=source /home/pi/homeassistant/bin/activate
ExecStart=/home/pi/homeassistant/bin/hass
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

it’s saved here:
/etc/systemd/system

this error i receive when i make this:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl --system daemon-reload
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl enable homeassistant
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl start homeassistant
Failed to start homeassistant.service: Unit homeassistant.service has a bad unit file setting.
See system logs and 'systemctl status homeassistant.service' for details.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl status homeassistant
● homeassistant.service - Home Assistant
   Loaded: bad-setting (Reason: Unit homeassistant.service has a bad unit file s
   Active: inactive (dead)

Nov 16 20:16:44 raspberrypi systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/homeassistant.servic
Nov 16 20:16:51 raspberrypi systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/homeassistant.servic
Nov 16 20:19:31 raspberrypi systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/homeassistant.servic
Nov 16 20:19:36 raspberrypi systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/homeassistant.servic
Nov 16 20:22:16 raspberrypi systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/homeassistant.servic
Nov 16 20:34:12 raspberrypi systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/homeassistant.servic
Nov 16 20:34:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/homeassistant.servic

please help me to fix this issue, i tried many days, but no luck, thank you all.

2

You’ll be happy to know that the documentation has examples you can use. Probably you’ll want this one.

3

thank you for help, i tried it, it’s not works for me:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl status homeassistant
● homeassistant.service - Home Assistant
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/homeassistant.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2019-11-17 19:51:02 IST; 5min ago
 Main PID: 554 (hass)
    Tasks: 4 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 37.7M
   CGroup: /system.slice/homeassistant.service
           └─554 /home/pi/homeassistant/bin/python3 /home/pi/homeassistant/bin/hass -c /home/pi/.homeassistant

Nov 17 19:51:02 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Home Assistant.
Nov 17 19:51:07 raspberrypi hass[554]: 2019-11-17 19:51:07 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.bootstrap] Unable to set up error log /home/pi/.homeassistant/home-assistan
Nov 17 19:51:07 raspberrypi hass[554]: 2019-11-17 19:51:07 ERROR (SyncWorker_1) [homeassistant.util.json] JSON file reading failed: /home/pi/.homeassistant/.storage/cor
Nov 17 19:51:07 raspberrypi hass[554]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 17 19:51:07 raspberrypi hass[554]:   File "/home/pi/homeassistant/lib/python3.7/site-packages/homeassistant/util/json.py", line 30, in load_json
Nov 17 19:51:07 raspberrypi hass[554]:     with open(filename, encoding="utf-8") as fdesc:
Nov 17 19:51:07 raspberrypi hass[554]: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/pi/.homeassistant/.storage/core.config'
Nov 17 19:51:07 raspberrypi hass[554]: 2019-11-17 19:51:07 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.bootstrap] Home Assistant core failed to initialize. Further initialization
Nov 17 19:51:07 raspberrypi hass[554]: 2019-11-17 19:51:07 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Starting Home Assistant
Nov 17 19:51:07 raspberrypi hass[554]: 2019-11-17 19:51:07 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Timer:starting

pi@raspberrypi:~ $
4

Looks like you’ve been using sudo or running things as a user other than pi

What does the following return:

find /home/pi/.homeassistant/ ! -user pi -print|wc -l

It should return zero.

5 
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ find /home/pi/.homeassistant/ ! -user pi -print|wc -l
0

what’s the meaning of this result?
what i have to do to fix my issue?

this is my homeassistant.service:

[Unit]
Description=Home Assistant
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=homeassistant
ExecStart=/home/pi/homeassistant/bin/hass -c "/home/pi/.homeassistant"
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
6

i changed the user from homeassistant to pi and now it’s works perfect thank you for helping

7

This means you didn’t follow the directions properly on setting up your python virtual environment. It should be running as the homeassistant user.

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8

This example is not good, thats why I am searching, why a @?

9

In what way is it “not good”?