Expected support for Home Assistant OS on the Raspberry Pi 5

I wonder what the expected timeline is for Supervised, HAOS, etc. being able to support the RPI 5.

Hoi Joery I am new here and i also like to run HA on my pi5
where kan i find the file develoment build for download

mvg Jan

You can easily download it from GitHub, as support for the RPi 5 is now included in HAOS 11.3.

Just expand the Assets section on the above page and you’ll find the haos_rpi5-64-11.3.img.xz that you can use with the Raspberry Pi Imaging Tool to create a bootable microUSB flash card for testing.

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Where do you find the Pi5 devolpment build? Cant find it in the offical Pi imager

I think you need to download the image from the attached link (above), then write it to an sd card.

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Details were provided in the post immediately above yours… :wink:

HA OS for RaspBerry PI 5 worked for me out of the box except the Raspbee II. It is detected but the Addons (ZHA & Zigbee2MQTT) are not being working properly in my setup.

@TeacherGus same problem here.
I installed haos_rpi5-64-11.4.dev20231223.img.xz on my RPi 5 yesterday.
After backup restore most Addons looks not started but are started if you check the logs, but some are not working like Zigbee2MQTT and MQTT broker (EMQX).

Running back on my RPi4b now…

(Adding @TeacherGus as well since you have the same issue as Sikkbe)

While I have not tried installing HA on my own Raspberry Pi 5 yet, something very similar happened when I helped my dad migrate from a RPI 3 to an RPI 4. We just could not get some of the addons (Zigbee2MQTT was one of them) to run. However, after checking some forums someone mentioned that they had a similar issue and solved this by disabling the “Start on boot”-option for all addons before creating the backup.

I realized that that since all addons are basically docker containers HA is probably trying to replicate that exact container on a new machine which will cause a whole bunch of issues. The correct approach should be to create a fresh new container on the new machine that uses an identical configuration.

We were able to solve it by simply turning off the “Start on boot”-option for all addons and rebooting the RPI 4, no new backup or flashing needed, and then simply starting the addons one by one. The machine has been rebooted since and now they start as normal.

Not sure if this will work in your case, but it might be worth a try? :grin:

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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…

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?

Just got my PI 5 cant wait to flash…

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.