So after a few years of running HA in Virtual Box, I’ve decided it’s time to migrate it to its own machine. So I purchased a Lenovo ThinkCentre M93P Tiny Desktop, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Intel Core i5 intending on doing a bare metal install. Before I did the install, I renamed the VM instance to “home-assistant.local” assuming the Lenovo instance would default to “homeassistant.local” (which it did) so the two could be up and running at the same time as I configured the Lenovo. After a bit of futzing around, I got it installed and it seems to be up and running.
When I opened the home page to start configuring it, I got a page saying it’s doing the initial config and could take up to 20 minutes. So I left it to do its thing. Came back about an hour later and it was still on that “20 minute” page. Did a refresh and it would no longer connect.
And this is where I’m stuck. Just can’t connect using either “homeassistant.local:8123/” (which is what I originally used and worked) or “192.168.68.102:8123/”. I can execute commands from the CLI so it seems like it’s running. If I run “jobs info” I get the following which seems to indicate that there is a problem (done = false and name = …restart_after_problem)
If I just execute “ping 192.168.68.1” I get “Error: Unknown Command…” Can’t find anything in the Help about pinging from the CLI.
If I ping the IPV4 IP from my laptop, I get a good result.
If I ping “homeassistant.local”, I still get a good result but it shows the IPV6 IP. The VM instance does the same when pinging “home-assistant.local”.
I see the IPV4 shows “ready: true” while the IPV6 shows “ready: false”. Wondering if this could be something since when I ping “homeassistant.local” it seems to be using the IPV6 address.
TBH: I don’t know what the significance is regarding that IPv6 remark.
Both instances have different IP’s and you didn’t use the old IP for the new install?
Decided to reimage the drive. That went as expected and it booted up with no issues. Executed the “jobs info” command and it showed a couple jobs in process related to the Docker interface. Waited until those were complete and no jobs were shown running.
Opened “http://homeassistant.local:8123” and am now sitting at this page. I do have backups (both the built-in one and the Google Drive one) that I could restore. I’m going to wait until tomorrow when I have a bit more time to do the Restore in case something goes wrong.
