Expected support for Home Assistant OS on the Raspberry Pi 5

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Thank you very much @carl_bratt for your help. I appreciate it.

@Sikkbe, finally I got Zigbee2MQTT working in my Raspberry PI 5 with HA OS. I re-installed the OS, version https://os-artifacts.home-assistant.io/11.4.dev20231226/haos_rpi5-64-11.4.dev20231226.img.xz. After reading this forum: Raspberry Pi 5 + Raspbee = no devices found #7413 I updated the config.txt file in the OS with the parameters:

enable_uart=1
dtparam=uart0_console

After this, the ttyAMA0 (instead of just ttyAMA10) was detected and it worked like a charm! I hope it helps!

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My Pi5 is also finally running with the RC2 HA OS, but Zigbee2mqtt is still giving me trouble. It works fine, but after a while it stalls or crashes or something and blocks the network. Strangely it doesn’t seem to show me any errors or be aware that anything is wrong…

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My pi5, with the latest 11.3 image, boots to the point where it is waiting for the HA CLI, then goes into the emergency console. Anyone else see this or have a way of fixing it?

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Just got my PI 5 cant wait to flash…

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Same, I’m waiting for the flashing using the Raspberry Pi Imager! Do we have an ETA?

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Just download the haos_rpi5-64-11.3.img.xz file to your computer. Then, use the RPi Imager to choose RPi 5, Select Custom Image (the one you just downloaded), select the microUSB card, and voila! You now have a RPi5 HAOS 11.3 device ready to install in your RPi 5.

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I am confused. After installing haos 11.3 there appears homebridge and not home assistant. Wrong image?

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Hard to say if you don’t tell us exactly what image you downloaded.

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Sounds like you either downloaded the wrong image OR selected the wrong image when you flashed your microSD card OR grabbed the wrong microSD card when you installed it in your RPi 5.

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I took this one: haos_rpi5-64-11.3.img.xz

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You need to flash that file to your card or ssd with Balena Etcher.

Word of caution though…the current HA builds on RPi 5 have a very high chance of breaking (as in failing to boot) after a system reboot. This doesn’t happen every time, but it’s probably something like a 30% chance for many of us right now. I had to completely reinstall HA many times due to that which is quite time consuming and annoying. MY latest installation seems to be holding up well now, it has been running for 3 Days without issues, but I haven’t shut it down or rebooted it since the initial Restore, so…I hope whatever is causing the failure to boot will be fixed before I need to reboot my Pi or tuen off it’S PSU.

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Excuse the basic question and sorry if it has been answered. If i have an RPi4 with HAOS 11.4 on it with everything working, can I simply pop the SD card into the RPi5 and expect it to work, or do I need to start again?

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I too would love this solution over a full rebuild haha

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You cannot simply move the microSD card from a RPi 4 to a RPi 5. The operating system is unique for each platform.

However, you can create a Full Backup in Home Assistant, and then simply restore that backup file to the new RPi 5, which will save you a ton of time.

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Hi Ogiewon

Have you trye to restore a backup from RPI4 to RPI5, mine is failing all the time.

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I tried yours but why its not automatically connecting to the wifi setup already created? anyway to connect to wifi? as I am seeing nothing for ip address etc

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When running the RC build on a RPI5 everything works fine. When I cut the power off several times everything boots up after a while on the Raspberry Pi 5. = OK

But when I update it to 11.4 and I cut the power off, the SD card is corrupted and I have to re-install everything, probably something with the 11.4 build?? Any solutions, waiting for the official build but I think it will be the same shizzle.

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This is not my HAOS image. It is the Official Home Assistant Team’s Raspberry Pi 5 image. You’d need to ask them about whether or not WiFi is supported at this time.

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Looks like it is a known issue that has been reported to the development team.

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I have not tried it myself. Does your RPi 5 have enough storage to properly handle the restore of your existing system backup?

I wonder if there is an add-on, or similar, in your current configuration that is not yet working on the RPi 5? Just a hypothesis. As a test, you could perform a partial backup (HA Core + other ‘standard stuff’) on your existing system, and then try to restore that to see if it works.