Home assistant Factory Reset

Feature Requests
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That is a good find, and a great first post. Welcome!!

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There should be an award for this one! Most first posts get the standard link to ‘how to ask a good question’!

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I brought the home assistant to my vacation apartment with my other automation equipment. While it took just 10 seconds to reset the other devices, I spent hours trying to factoryr reset the home assistant. Why can’t we have a reset button that only permits a factory reset if a current backup has been successfully created?

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See Home assistant Factory Reset - #40 by hardew

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Tried this (ha os datadisk wipe). It didn’t work. Rebooted and then my entire pre-existing config came back after the reboot.

I’ve tried it twice now.

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Do I execute that from the ha > prompt on the console? I mean, I know I don’t. How do I get to a place where I run rm -rf * to erase $CONFIG? Even login at the ha > prompt just drops into the / filesystem of something. I surely do not want to rm -rf * there!

As an aside, these are the kind of details that I am saying that are unreasonable for any random user of HAOS to have to know just to effect a factory reset.

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also doesn’t work for me


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Also commenting to say that neither

core stop
login
rm -rf /config/.storage
core start

nor

ha os datadisk wipe

were able to reset my HA OS running on my X86-64 NUC. My Zigbee Home Automation has not been working since a power outage and I was looking for a simple way to completely reset the device because I think there might have been a problem with the SQLite database based upon the debug logs.

I would like to say that I think it would be useful to have a factory reset option; if not from the web GUI then at least from the CLI. It’s kind of a pain to reflash the device.

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I feel like having it in the UI could be a nightmare for newbies or a terrible accident for some users.

Agree on CLI! There should be some sort of MD5 check to confirm installation is the same as a fresh installation.

Or as similar to Windows where you can run sfc /scannow to check for any broken or modified components. A similar command in CLI would be very nice.