Unfortunately I can’t access the menu in your screenshot which is part of the problem I have. The icon is there but right clicking it does nothing and double clicking is the same result.
I’ve tried deleting the folder found in %AppData\Roaming\homeassistant-desktop% and reinstalling a few times and still has the same result.
Is there anywhere else files or configs may be hiding? I semi suspect it’s a messed up file somewhere that was left behind also but I haven’t been able to find it anywhere.
Under %AppData\Local\homeassistant-desktop-updater% it has an installer file and a pending folder with the old 1.4.10 installer from 11/22/2021 that I haven’t deleted yet but it just has the old installer lingering there.
Error log below. I closed and opened it twice to make sure it logged.
Prior to installing I uninstalled the previous version and manually deleted the folder in %AppData\Roaming\homeassistant-desktop
[2022-09-06 15:53:08.222] [info] homeassistant-desktop started
[2022-09-06 15:53:08.228] [info] Platform: win32
[2022-09-06 15:53:08.296] [info] Checking for update
[2022-09-06 15:54:15.335] [info] homeassistant-desktop started
[2022-09-06 15:54:15.339] [info] Platform: win32
[2022-09-06 15:54:15.391] [info] Checking for update
Same problem persists for me.
Also to note, in the last 10 days I also reinstalled Windows and started fresh due to a long overdue SSD upgrade. The problem I have now existed before and after the fresh Windows install.
Is it possible I’m missing something else in Windows to make the app run?
I see you posted it to github. Do you want me to open a ticket on the github vs taking over this thread?
I didn’t see any problem in your log and unfortunately at this point I don’t know how to reproduce your problem.
I tested the app on a Win 10 VM and on my Win 11 PC and both work fine.
@twanjaarsveld I had the same behavior. I fixed it by installing the proper version for my CPU architecture. I’m on x86_64, but I had accidentally downloaded the arm64 binary. When you go to “Releases” on the github repo, you need to select “Show all 24 assets” to reveal the rest of the binaries, then choose the right one for your architecture (for x86_64 you’ll want win-x64)
Sometimes the app seems to loose connection to HA server, e. g. after restoring the endpoint system from hibernate or when restarting HA. HA Desktop presents with this screen:
When clicking “Reconnect”, the app crashes. Needs to be started again manually. Not sure how to provide debug logs, there’s no event record in Windows.
either with one of the HA releases the last months
or with one of the latest HA Desktop versions after former stable v1.4.1 (which didn’t have this behavior: clicking reconnect did actually just reconnect and not crash the whole application)
I was eager to reuse this application again, only to discover it is no longer maintained and has issues. Extremely happy to see that @iprodanov stepped in to support the project, which runs flawlessly. Many thanks!
Desktop application (Windows / macOS / Linux) for Home Assistant built with Electron
