I am running HA on docker on Ubuntu, and finally decided it was time for me to move off this “unsupported” configuration and onto HA OS. Since I only have one NUC, and since I didn’t want to risk blowing up my current implementation, I decided to install Virtualbox, then load HA OS onto that, and finally restore from a full snapshot onto this new OS. Here is what happened:
- I didn’t want to have both systems running at once, but the supervisor always restarts HA after a shutdown so I was tearing my hair out trying to keep the old system down while I brought the new one up. Eventually Ludeeus on Discord gave me some Linux commands that kept the old system down.
- The spinning circle for the snapshot restore never finished (after 16 hours i just closed the browser window), but when I looked at the core and supervisor logs they looked fine, with no unexpected errors
- Thinking all was now fine, I tried to login to the new instance but got ‘unable to connect to home assistant’.
I’m now really thankful that I retained my original installation, but I would like to make this move so any suggestions are appreciated. Note: I do use the DuckDNS add-on and was wondering if this may have something to do with why the new installation wasn’t able to be accessed.