HASS.IO - Wifi setup config file

[Anymal (Yvo Putter)]

@lindix

At first it did not work for unknown reason to me

Maybe it’s because the SSID’s channel of your router is set to auto and not to channel<=10.

Guide: Connecting Pi with Home Assistant OS to wifi (or other networking changes)

In my case using a Raspberry Pi Zero W with Hassio image 2.10, my wifi access point or SSID was not showing up in the list created by nmcli device wifi. A few google searches later, I found a raspberry pi forum post hinting that the SSID that you’re trying to connect to with your Hassio install and CONFIG USB method, must have a channel<=10 on your Router. I reflashed my SD card, plugged in the CONFIG USB, booted up and waited around 2 min and was then able to connect to hassio.local:8123. Thi…

[eliogrin (Illia Grynov)]

Just in case if someone get here with problem on Raspberry Pi 4 and HassOS latest version (3.3 Beta)… I will safe few hours of googling for you, just go here: https://github.com/home-assistant/hassos/issues/435. For now there is no drivers for wi-fi that’s why it’s impossible to connect to your wi-fi network.

[shamal2008 (T.L.)]

Hi all,
I’m quite new and wanted to have a look at home-assistant after 2,5 years experience with FHEM on my Raspi. I took the recommended image, put it with balena etcher on a sd and well went well. Until I tried to connect to my WIFI. I wonder, that a capsuled OS in 2020 is not able to connect to WIFI via standard or even an add-on. I tried now all the variants with USB-Stick, nmcli, nmtui (this wasn’t found at all), direct edit via file-manager… nothing worked.

Don’t tell me about the channels, there is one more Raspi3 and one Raspi connected to my wifi without any issue and seamlessly. There is also no hardware fault, if I put in the debian image, it will connect as usual. I put almost a day in this issue.

Personally I think, it’s a big blame for such a system providing a bunch of archaic configuration methods for a common connection type.

Is there any last idea?

cheers,
Shamal2008

[cogneato]

nmcli is available on the host. You can also use it with this addon https://community.home-assistant.io/t/guide-connecting-pi-with-home-assistant-os-to-wifi-or-other-networking-changes/98768

[karansoi (Karanbir)]

I have had not a very good experience with Balena Etcher. In my case after completion it was giving message failed to unmount, flash completed. With Ethernet and us drive on the RPI powered it up. Only Ethernet connection worked. After many attempts recalled a famous quote “ if you keep doing the same thing, it is foolish to expect different results”
I used flasher from the RPI official website, there was no error and now for first power up did not use Ethernet, only the usb stick was in one of the usb sockets of the RPI.
In about fifteen minutes got an IP address of 192.168.86.53 and I could connect with http://homeassistant:8123
You folks not meeting success may try out not using the Ethernet for first power up on newly flashed image. And in the my-network file use a version 4 uuid. Don’t miss it.
I thought to share this.
Cheers

[djaus]

Thanks, this worked for me too.
Why isn’t WiFi setup formally part of the OS documentation?
Especially for first setup?

[code-in-progress (Bill - I write code.)]

@djaus

Why isn’t WiFi setup formally part of the OS documentation?
Especially for first setup?

Because HA is a server and generally WiFi for for servers is not stable or recommended. It introduces lag and possible disconnects that ethernet doesn’t have.