Thank you for this! These steps should absolutely be included in the manual installation guide. Or at least include a link to this post.
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Thanks for the guide. Home Assistant doesn’t start and I believe it has got to do with the folder structure. Here’s the output for sudo systemctl status home-assistant@homeassistant
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2020-09-04 19:18:58 EDT; 3min 15s ago
Process: 5409 ExecStart=/opt/homeassistant/bin/hass -c /home/%i/.homeassistant (code=exited, status=200/CHDIR)
Main PID: 5409 (code=exited, status=200/CHDIR)
Sep 04 19:18:58 vortexbox systemd[1]: Started Home Assistant.
Sep 04 19:18:58 vortexbox systemd[1]: [email protected]: Main process exited, code=exited, status=200/CHDIR
Sep 04 19:18:58 vortexbox systemd[1]: [email protected]: Unit entered failed state.
Sep 04 19:18:58 vortexbox systemd[1]: [email protected]: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
I have confirmed the Home Assistant install with whereis hass so I believe this is correct
…
what does your systemd service file look like?
As in /etc/systemd/system/home-assistant@YOUR_USER.service
I have created a user homeassistant so created /etc/systemd/system/[email protected] as per the above instructions for a virtual environment (setup done via Installing Home Assistant Core on Fedora) - only change is the location of home assistant which I checked via whereis hass
Description=Home Assistant
After=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=%i
WorkingDirectory=/home/%i/.homeassistant
ExecStart=/opt/homeassistant/bin/hass -c "/home/%i/.homeassistant"
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
File details as follows
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 238 Sep 4 18:53 /etc/systemd/system/[email protected] ```
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Thanks for this great guide! It works perfect except … for locally executed command lines.
My HA is installed in Python virt.environment on Debian. I have a pretty simple CPUtemp sensor ( platform: command_line) with
command: cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
This runs as expected when HA is manually invoked:
> sudo -u homeassistant -H -s
> cd /srv/homeassistant
> source bin/activate
> hass
The CPU temperature is read periodically and then displayed in my GUI.
But today I implemented the ‘systemd’ script to autostart the HA and … I started to receive this strange error message every minute:
hass[978]: /bin/sh: 1: cat: not found
hass[978]: ERROR (SyncWorker_1) [homeassistant.components.command_line] Command failed: cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
It looks like HA (run by systemd) is invoking the command line with sh shell and not bash. Why? What am I doing wrong?
I already checked the passwd file for homeassistant user and it is correctly set to /bin/bash. How can I troubleshoot this further?
Yeah, something strange, really…
I’ve added this extra line to home-assistant.service file to check what shell the Home Assistant is being started:
ExecStartPre=echo $SHELL >> /home/homeassistant/asa.txt
daemon.log showed an interesting result:
Oct 16 08:25:48 localhost systemd[1]: Stopped Home Assistant.
Oct 16 08:27:21 localhost systemd[1]: Reloading.
Oct 16 08:27:37 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Home Assistant...
Oct 16 08:27:37 localhost echo[24133]: /bin/bash >> /home/homeassistant/asa.txt
Oct 16 08:27:37 localhost systemd[1]: Started Home Assistant.
[...]
Oct 16 08:27:55 localhost hass[24134]: /bin/sh: 1: cat: not found
Oct 16 08:27:55 localhost hass[24134]: 2020-10-16 08:27:55 ERROR (SyncWorker_18) [homeassistant.components.command_line] Command failed: cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
Now I see that systemd works properly and starts Home Assistant from bash. But then, Home Assistant (for unknown reason) fires its own command line scripts from (much limited) sh shell. Gosh, why?
Or more precisely, why this happen only when HA is autostarted by this systemd script?
I am facing the same issue with the same setup (HA installed in virtual environment) : when starting Home Automation manually with hass, I can run shell_commands without issue.
But when starting with the autostart systemd script, the commands are not successfull. In my case I am trying to send an infrared signal to my amp with ir-ctl and tried to send the command directly or via a script
Dec 22 12:53:50 raspberrypi hass[13207]: 2020-12-22 12:53:50 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.shell_command] Error running command: `/bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/ir-ctl -g 75000 -S rc5x_20:0x100c00 -S rc5x_20:0x100c00 -d /dev/lirc0"`, return code: 66
Dec 22 13:10:17 raspberrypi hass[13207]: 2020-12-22 13:10:17 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.shell_command] Error running command: `~/pm53_ir_control.sh volumeup`, return code: 66
Dec 22 13:10:17 raspberrypi hass[13207]: NoneType: None
Have you found a correction for this issue?
I’m having problems enabling the service. I installed in a python virtual environment.
Here’s the output of the systemctl status:
● [email protected] - Home Assistant
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Dec 26 13:49:18 raspberrypi systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]:8: Neither a valid executable name nor an absolute path: ~/homeassistant/bin/hass
Hass won’t execute out of a command line in its directory. Which is consistent with my assumption that hass is a python script.
How is the ExecStart supposed to work with a python script?
Thanks.
Here’s my resolution:
[Unit]
Description=Home Assistant
After=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=%i
WorkingDirectory=/home/%i/.homeassistant
ExecStart=/home/pi/homeassistant/bin/python3 /home/pi/homeassistant/bin/hass
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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I am not an expert, but maybe I can help you:
Services started as daemons have a more limited environment than a normal console login.
There is no stdin and stdout available and the PATH variable is not the same.
So, whatever you do within a service, you should work with full pathnames or add the necessary pathes at the beginning.
Perfect guide !
was working on my PI3 with raspbian install.
I would suggest to add/integrate it on the Doc
Thanks
Thanks for the guide. It worked great after a few modifications for my environment.
If your configuration uses a serial port for ZWave make sure that the HomeAssistant account in the systemctl file has access, or the daemon will start but not be able to communicate with the ZWave devices. Here is a link that explains Automatic ACL assignment at boot time. The HomeAssistat install scripts create the file /etc/udev/rules.d/90-extraacl.rules. This file gives permission to the USB serial ports for the user that ran the install scripts. If you run under a different user, the file will have to be edited to grant permission to that user.
The instructions ought to include that if you already had a working installation and you’re just trying to get Docker to start HA automatically on boot (because, say, as in my case, it used to start automatically but no longer does and you can’t figure out why), you have to change the path to the config folder from /home/%i/.homeassistant/ to whatever your correct current config path is. Otherwise you start over with a fresh blank config.
I second @KupieTools
Broke my entire install… Got a fresh HA without supervisor (don’t know why, but that’s problematic to restore a snapshot…). I don’t know how I’m gonna get out if this one. I ought to be more careful doing stuff I don’t know enough about ^^
Edit: Nevermind, I was lucky enough to give the wrong folder so I did not overwrite anything so all is well.
Beware if you’re not sure what you’re doing^^
if you have a component that accesses network at startup, After=network-online.target may not be sufficient. In my case, dns resolution was failing for my component when it accessed network at startup, probably because systemd was starting hass too early.
The following helped me: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/356189/62292
My systemd file is:
[Unit]
Description=Home Assistant
After=NetworkManager-wait-online.service
Requires=NetworkManager-wait-online.service
[Service]
Type=simple
User=%i
WorkingDirectory=/home/%i/.homeassistant
ExecStart=/srv/homeassistant/bin/hass -c "/home/%i/.homeassistant"
[Install]
More info about my machine (standard Manjaro KDE)
[xxxxx@computer ~]$ systemctl is-enabled NetworkManager-wait-online.service systemd-networkd-wait-online.service
enabled
disabled
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Help please. After some system changes I find that I cannot get the Supervisor container to start after a reboot.
It starts fine if I trigger it manually.
I’ve checked /etc/systemd/system/hassio-supervisor.service
[Unit]
Description=Hass.io supervisor
Requires=docker.service
After=docker.service dbus.socket
[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=5s
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker stop hassio_supervisor
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/hassio-supervisor
ExecStop=-/usr/bin/docker stop hassio_supervisor
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
and tried
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart
and
curl -Lo installer.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer/master/installer.sh
bash installer.sh
But still end up having to start the supervisor container manually. I see other posts that indicate some portion of the install might need to be re issued but have not been able to pick that apart and apply it to the current HA. My enviro
core-2021.2.3
supervisor-2021.02.11
Docker 20.10.4
Raspbian GNU/Linux 10
TIA
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editing this file helped me with manual restarting HA
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/hassio-supervisor.service
and editing this line to:
#ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker stop hassio_supervisor
and
sudo systemctl --system daemon-reload
I have that in there already. Thanks though
Funny coincidence, Same time you sent that - I was just watching the system restart and for a bit Supervisor was running and then fell over. I can restart the container and all is well>?>? Maybe there is another sequence issue. I dunno. Very frustrate. This all started with trying out TailScaled in place of Wireguard
Did you put hashtag in front like iI did?
Hashtag “commenting out” help me with reboot
What triggered my problem with HA not starting up after reboot is Ubuntu apt upgrade/update
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