I also had issues with my Pi4 locking up every few days. I had it in a small, plastic enclosure with a fan that was controlled using the CPU temperature and a HA generic thermostat, but I was finding that even with this, the device wasn’t reliable, especially when the fan started to play up.
I swapped to a Geekwork, passively cooled case and it’s an amazing piece of kit. Reduced CPU temperatures by 10C (20C from the old passively cooled temperature) and it’s not locked up once in the last 3 months.
Beautiful piece of engineering too. It’s designed so that the case clamps around the board and contacts (through thermal pads) the CPU and other hotspot components on the board:
I also had similar issues on RPI3B. I think it was RAM usage (or other resources) related.
Now that I moved the MariaDB database for the recorder to a remote RPI4 everything is running smooth again.
Even Glances monitoring works way better now, before this those sensors often became unavailable especially under stress conditions.
I had the same issue with RPi4 4gb. I figured that the issue appeared when I went from Mariadb back to the default litesql.
I am now back to Mariadb and HassIO hasn’t crashed since or unmounted the SSD out of the blue.
After upgrading the HA OS, it became stable, but I also installed a cooling fan to my HA Blue. I bought a usb fan and I attached it to the back of my HA Blue. Temp has decreased considerably. Hope it helps…
I experienced a similar issue a few months one year ago. HASSIO was not responding, I didn’t have any way to access it, and the only way to make it work was to switch it off and on.
The first attempt was to reboot it periodically. Secondly, replace the SD card (as mentioned here HassIO stops responding every so often - #41 by baizinger). I wasn’t happy with these two solutions, at least they didn’t work from time to time. Then, I didn’t like to reboot HASSIO regularly to overcome this issue.
I ended up replacing the case with a cooling one: https://amzn.eu/d/6etWQn1. It has been almost one year, and I have never experienced this error again. I hope this might help someone
Hi all!
Running a RB Pi 3 here, and almost never been freeze before. What I’ve discovered so far, is that it is only happening to me when I’m away and I have one of these “vacation mode” automations running:
One that every morning after sunrise, will open some blinds with random position from 50% till 100%
One that will close all blinds at night
One that after sunset, it will turn on and off with randomly periods of time some lights…
I don’t know, I have thought that maybe one of these automations is kind of overflowing, or making my RB to freeze because of temp…