Errors after power cycle

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi guys,

I’m new to Home Assistant. I have a RPi 3+ running the latest version of Hass.io. Everything was installed and working perfectly. I wanted to setup my ESP32CAM with Home Assistant. I installed the ESPHome repository but didnt get further as I got busy. A few hours later I was going to continue, but I could not get into the Configurator, so I decided to cycle the power of the RPi.

As soon as I did that I was unable to connect to Home Assistant anymore. I cannot SSH into the Pi. I can ping the IP address for a short while, but after about 2min I lose network activity. Tried WinSCP to get to the files, but also fails to connect.

See the screenshot for the errors I get when I plug a screen into the Pi. Ignore the white section. That is a problem with the monitor.

Please can someone assist me. I do not feel like reloading Hass.io and losing all my configurations I’ve typed in as I dont have a backup.

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This bad. Don’t do this. It will lead to SD card corruption. There is a shudown host button on the Hassio System page you should use.

I have some bad news and maybe some good news.

Bad: you are going to have to reinstall HA.

Good (maybe): depending on how badly corrupted your SD card is you may be able to recover the configuration files by directly reading the SD card using a PC or software capable of reading Linux partitions. You can use any Linux live boot CD/USB stick or in the case of windows software there are some options here: https://www.howtogeek.com/112888/3-ways-to-access-your-linux-partitions-from-windows/

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Thanks for your response. I was not able to Restart. I did try, but clicking the Restart button yielded no results. I read an article says its better to install Rasbian, then add Home Assistant on to it, rather than using Hass.io. Is this true?

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So you are saying everytime someone has a power outage they have to reload Home Assistant? Surely not! This is poor coding if so.

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Probably, this depends on the SD card, not on HA.
You can place it under an UPS, if you have it.

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I am using a 32Gb Class 10 U1 Micro SD card.

UPS will be a bit big. Not really convenient

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Not every time but it’s like playing Russian roulette. Someone is going to lose sooner or later.

A UPS (or 5V battery bank for a Pi) is worthwhile insurance.

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You can install Hassio on Raspbian. I am running Hassio on Raspbian Lite.I used SD Formatter to wipe the card and then installed Raspbian Lite using NOOBS Lite.
If you wish, I can post the instructions here. They official ones are a little scattered.

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I mean, if you already have one for other stuff… :wink:

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Yes please that will be great.

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Follow the Raspberry Pi instructions to format the card, install NOOBS Lite & Raspbian Lite.

https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/raspberry-pi-setting-up/3

sudo -i

apt-get install software-properties-common

apt-get update

apt-get install -y apparmor-utils apt-transport-https avahi-daemon ca-certificates curl dbus jq network-manager socat

curl -fsSL get.docker.com | sh

curl -sL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/hassio-installer/master/hassio_install.sh" | bash -s -- -m raspberrypi3

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