Core upgrades. How long should they normally take?

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I’m running HassOS on my Raspbery PI 3B+, and for the most part it’s running very well. But one thing I notice is that when I apply an upgrade to Core, it takes a very long time. Like an hour to an hour and a half long. It just sits there saying "Updating Home Assistant Core to version " with the spinny thingy. I know from experience not to panic and just leave it, and eventually it’ll reboot and complete the upgrade.

Is an hour+ upgrade time typical/expected? If not, any thoughts on how I could troubleshoot what’s getting stuck? A quick glance through the logs doesn’t show anything obvious, but I’m not sure what to look for.

Brad.

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Just leave supervisor upgrades alone. If you do nothing, eventually it will update itself without your interaction.

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Really? That hasn’t been my experience. If I don’t upgrade it’ll just get further and further behind.

But yeah, if it self-upgraded in the middle of the night, then I wouldn’t know or care how long it took. :wink:

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That only applies to the supervisor itself, which is not the case here. This is about upgrading core in the supervisor panel.
And yes it can very well take 1-2h on a pi

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Thanks! Then worry I shall not.

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You should correct the title of your topic. You’re concerned with the time it takes to upgrade Home Assistant Core, not the Supervisor.

Like francisp said, updates to Supervisor are performed automatically (and take very little time, even on an RPi 3). In contrast, updates to Home Assistant Core are not done automatically and can take a long time on an RPI 3.

tl;dr
Supervisor is not Home Assistant Core.

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Done! Thanks for pointing that out.

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The following sentence should also be revised to ensure the reader understands you’re talking about upgrading Core:

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Wow. Things have certainly grown then. It has been a few years since I used a pi3b to host Home Assistant but it did not take longer than 5 - 10 minutes back then.

Edit: oh unless a database schema changed. That could take a while.