Hi everyone,
I wanted to install Home Assistant on my Raspberry Pi 5, but I’m running into problems and have pretty much run out of ideas. Here are the components:
Raspberry Pi 5 (8 GB RAM),
500 GB Intenso Premium NVMe Gen 3,
Original 27W power supply,
Argon Neo 5 case,
Pi connected to the router via LAN.
The problem is as follows: I installed HA 17.3 onto the NVMe SSD using the Imager and inserted it into the Raspberry Pi 5. HA boots up and indicates that everything is fine.
When I access http://homeassistant.local:8123/ (or ip:8123), the installation process begins. Everything works at first, but then an error occurs:
ERROR (MainThread) [supervisor.docker.manager] failed commit on ref "layer-sha256:43f998f61b560d0a6ab96a8b58dd4e6edb2c6499c32154dbee1fcb61f24ada90": commit failed: unexpected commit digest sha256:23e3ab27e064f5f35df1630256e04c07217804f31be4b38328e3ea0609b03e0b, expected sha256:43f998f61b560d0a6ab96a8b58dd4e6edb2c6499c32154dbee1fcb61f24ada90: failed precondition.
WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.core] Error on Home Assistant installation. Retrying in 30sec. The error then enters an infinite loop and repeats continuously.
I have tried the following potential solutions, but unfortunately, none of them worked.
- I installed the HA 16.2 and 16.3 images on the NVMe; it worked, but with errors. I was able to set up the Pi, but after shutting it down, I could no longer access the user interface—even though the Pi indicated that everything was running perfectly.
- Installed the image on the NVMe using Pi Imager on Windows.
- Installed the image directly via the Pi.
- Tried using a different power supply (higher wattage).
- Tried using a USB-to-NVMe adapter to connect the NVMe to the Pi via USB.
- Tried using a 128 GB SD card and installed HA on it.
- Installed Raspberry Pi OS on both SD and NVMe; that ran without issues. I also tried installing HA there.
- Freshly re-flashed HA onto the NVMe at least 10–15 times, formatting the drive beforehand—hope dies last.
- Used a different network router / internet provider.
- Changed the boot order to NVMe.
- Checked the SSD using CrystalDisk; it showed no errors.
- Used a different NVMe drive (Crucial 500 GB).
- Sought advice from Perplexity/ChatGPT and tried the suggested solutions.
Unfortunately, nothing worked, and I am at my wit's end. I would appreciate your help.
