HELP! HA down. At ha> prompt

VPC · July 10, 2021, 1:34pm

HELP!!

I messed up my system. On me.

I’m running a Home Assistant Blue.

I was cleaning up my system and have messed it up. The ui won’t come up. When I connect a monitor and keyboard to the Home Assistant Blue I’m at a ha> prompt.

I was in the .storage folder cleaning up files. I am using the browser_mod integration and had ended up with over 600 devices / entities form that. Long story. Even after removing the browser_mod integration I still had loads of devices / entities hence the cleanup effort.

I think I have an extra comma at the end of one of the core yaml files in my /config/.storage directory.

From the ha> prompt how can I edit these files?

Thanks for any assistance as I’m down. Users not happy. On me I know.

tom_l · July 10, 2021, 1:41pm

Do you have a snapshot from before this that you can restore?

VPC · July 10, 2021, 1:46pm

I believe so. I just upgraded to version 2021.7.1 and I it did a snapshot then.

tom_l · July 10, 2021, 1:50pm

This will list your snapshots:

ha snapshots

For help and options:

ha snapshot restore -h

To restore one:

ha snapshot restore [slug]

VPC · July 10, 2021, 1:57pm

ha snapshots

works but it scrolls past so fast I can’t see the most recent slug. Is there a grep or something that might sort them?

tom_l · July 10, 2021, 1:59pm

ha snapshots | more

Enter key: to scroll down line by line.
Space bar: To go to the next page.
b key: To go to back one page.

VPC · July 10, 2021, 2:01pm

That still scrolls by really quickly even after putting the pipe into more

tom_l · July 10, 2021, 2:02pm

Bugger. It’s probably not implemented. I only tested it in the SSH Web Terminal addon.

Do you have the SSH addon installed?

VPC · July 10, 2021, 2:03pm

Yes. Unfortunately the ui won’t come up though to use it

tom_l · July 10, 2021, 2:03pm

Connect via SSH using Putty.

https://www.putty.org/

Or just video the screen scrolling past with your phone.

VPC · July 10, 2021, 2:05pm

HAHAHA

I did the iPhone video already but it was all blurry as it scrolled too fast!

I’ll try putty now.

VPC · July 10, 2021, 2:10pm

Should my expectation be that I should be able to SSH to it from my developer workstation? ie the ip of Home Assistant, port 22?

I’m getting a connection error like ssh server is not running on Home Assistant

tom_l · July 10, 2021, 2:11pm

Yes port 22 is the default. Unless you changed it.

The SSH addon may not be running.

Try using | less or | most

VPC · July 10, 2021, 2:12pm

I didn’t change the port away from 22. I don’t think the add on is running as I can’t connect.

From an ha> prompt is there a way to edit the files in the .storage folder?

tom_l · July 10, 2021, 2:14pm

nano path/filename.extension

Or

vi path/filename.extension

path should be /config/.storage

VPC · July 10, 2021, 2:18pm

Unfortunately at the ha> prompt I don’t have nano or vi.

tom_l · July 10, 2021, 2:19pm

Exit out of the Home Assistant CLI? (Ctrl +Z)

VPC · July 10, 2021, 2:23pm

At the ha> prompt I can’t Control-Z out of it.

tom_l · July 10, 2021, 2:27pm

Attach the installation media (eMMC module/SD card) to your computer.

Copy off the snapshots (you may need Disk Internals Linux Reader, free).

Do a reinstall.

Restore the snapshot during onboarding.

VPC · July 10, 2021, 2:28pm

I can do that. Never opened my Home Assistant Blue yet so that will be interesting.