Bad Start for a newbie

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Hi all.
I’m new here, discovering Home Assistant.
I had some previous experiences with OpenHAB, but it seems to me HA has some…gear more (bad transposition from italian…I mean: something more).
Unfortunately, I’m not starting in the best way…
I got my Raspi 4 (4Gb), downloaded and and installed HA (following all the instructions).
Currently I’m running it on a dedicated LAN (just for test - no internet); I can see HA in my clients list (with IP 192.168.1.101), but no way to access it…
I tried all the possibilities:

  • homeassistant.local:8123
  • homeassistant:8123
  • 192.168.1.101:8123

But nothing to do.
I tried even with SSH access (Putty), but no way

I installed the 64bit vers, but as the Pi4 has only 4 Gb, I tried with the 32bit vers.
Both cases, no way to access it.

Advices?

Thanks

Andrea

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Home assistant needs access to the internet when first installed. It checks for the latest version (also needs NTP to set the clock).

3

Thankyou very much. After the first start, it will be possible to run it on my separate LAN?

Andrea

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Yes, though Home Assistant OS will require some changes to allow it still to function (I don’t run it, I don’t know exactly what they are, but they’ll be around DNS and NTP).

Of course, no cloud integration will work, you won’t be able to send notifications, and you won’t be able to update…

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Actually, that’s only valid for Home Assistant OS, isn’t it?

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I don’t have any experience running the other installation methods so I’m not sure.

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I don’t have any experience with “supervised” installations like HA OS oder HA Supervised. Of course you require temporary internet access when installing any Home Assistant flavour, but since the underlying OS provides date/time and everything is downloaded when not using supervisior - it should run without internet.

Off-topic anyway.