I have an RPi 3 that I started with HA 0.38. It is now on 0.59.2. It works but is getting a little goofy and the syslog and db file get huge every few days.
Question: Is it a true statement that HA built up from the All in One Installer back in the day will not be a viable upgrade path in 2018 as I saw on one webpage?
I just built a Hass.io system with 0.59.2 and configured it identically to my previous installation
Question: Is it a true statement that this is what I need to do to stay viable and on the upgrade path?
Hass,io seems a bit slower to get to the frontend when restarting. Not a big deal.
Last question prefaced with a statement / observation.
I have pretty much all the junk bought in my home that I want for now and am happy with my automation scenario. Sometimes I feel like stopping chasing upgrades.
Question: Any other people out there just stop when your home is working correctly? At some point I’d love to freeze the code or HA to release “stable” releases.
AIO as an installer is deprecated. However, once you have HA installed, upgrading via pip can continue as long as pip packages are supported. AFAIK, there is no plan to stop supporting pip. If this happens, it will probably be time for me to switch to a new platform.
If you have to ask the question, then its probably the option for you. But there are plenty of other way to install and upgrade if you want to look around.
I think continuous improvement is my current state. I haven’t changed much recently, but there are always things I want to try. I only upgrade HA when something interesting comes along.
As long as you upgrade your Python to 3.5.4 or 3.6.3 you’ll be fine. I installed my AIO system back in January, and having upgraded to Python 3.5.4 it’s going to be fine for a long time to come.
Not yet. Every few releases brings a change I want, which means it’s usually easier to update every release so that the changes are easier - I don’t have to dig out all the breaking changes for all the older releases I skipped.
But, after each upgrade proves stable I update my bootable backup (courtesy of rpi-clone). Until then I’ve got a trivial way of reverting.