I’ve only just recently discovered HA. At first i used VirtualBox to set it up on my computer but it would hang almost every day in this environment (computer told not to sleep etc).
So I purchased a Raspberry Pi 4B thinking this would solve my problems.
I installed HA on it as per the guide and restored by backup… Its wired to my router to avoid wifi issues…
However this is doing the same thing as when it was running on the Virtual Machine - The only way is to power down and reboot it.
At first i thought it was the Pi hardware but then got to thinking that it might not be as it did this before on the VM.
Can anyone tell me if HA crashes should you still be able to ping the IP address of the Pi hardware or will this go down too?
A few years ago I had similar issues with the OS that has become HAOS, At that time I decided to choose different installation options.
Currently my personal choice ha Home Assistant Container although some people may prefer Home Assistant Supervised if running on a plain vanilla Debian installation.
I’ve only just recently discovered HA. At first i used VirtualBox to set it up on my computer but it would hang almost every day in this environment (computer told not to sleep etc).
Odd as I have had no problems with my VM. Is the host machine linux or windows? Were sufficient resources allocated to the VM, I allocate 3 cpu’s, 8gb memory and host machine runs ubuntu. The most trouble I had was getting USB support to the VM to support a z-stick. Were there anything in the logs that indicated why the VM was hanging?
If on Windows have you looked here:
Did you set a static address for home assistant or set a static map in your router to the VM? I have both the host and VM static mapped in my router.
Years ago I had problems with a VirtualBox VM on Windows and with HassOS installed directly on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ Like I stated, things have likely changed in the interim. Nabu Casa was in the early stages of hiring developers.