Home assistant hangs after few hours

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi,
same issue here.

RPI4 8GB Ram.

Few entities, few automation, deconz and conbee setup.

Hangs every 2 weeks. May be some memory leak going on?

This is the type of issue that make me think that HA is “not ready for production”.

19

Same problem over here:
Raspberry 4 w 4G RAM, boot from SSD.
Hang occurs daily :frowning:
Minimal addons (SMB, Grafana, InfluxDB).

20

Have you guys checked your logs for entries along the lines of ‘malformed database’? Have you tried stopping HA, deleting the database file, restarting HA?

21

I checked the logs ( ha core logs ) and grepped for malformed.
Nothing there …
(tried top copy/paste the output, but the terminal addon doesnt facilitate copy/paste)

I added the logger config. Think there’s more info over there.

22

Check out https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/issues/1119
Lots of people with similar issues. When it freezes it looks like most of the time the logs don’t give a clue. Most in the 1119 issue can run fine on os below 5.5. This has been an issue for a lot of people after the kernel was change to make 5.5.

23

Yesterday I changed the recorder backend to MariaDB. Since then no hang :slight_smile:
A good video on how to achive this: https://youtu.be/0Nf70avId0w

And one day later, HA is dead again :unamused:
This is not good. Stability is crucial.

24

Have your tried the OS downgrade to 5.4. I have yet to have this crash. I just tried this morning an update to the firmware on my StarTech controller. I rebooted, went to 5.12 and 4 hours later it crashed. 5.4 is very stable for me.

25

RPI-4 clean install, no temp og memory problems - basically a decent installation but still experiencing hangs once a day for the last 2 months appx.
Any hints og news if someone is looking into this rather common issue?

26

I have the same issue now for several months, Systems freezes after 1 day - simple installation, new RaspberryPI with SD card, original power supply 2% CPU load, 58 degrees celcius, Disk 8%, Mem use 12%

recorder:
  purge_keep_days: 1
  commit_interval: 10
27

im still trying to resolve this issue unresponsive HA once everyday. I have set automation to reboot my HA every 6hours hoping this will solve the issue. I will update this ticket once it eliminates the issue.

28

Same here - tried almost everything. SD->SSD, cooling, disabled integration etc. etc.

29

I’m wondering if the devs are aware of this thread. I would post logs if I knew what they needed to diagnose the issue.

30

I’ve tried excluding sensors from the recorder, and I now have a sneaking suspicion, that it is an input_text value that is tripping up the recorder process.

My setup is now working again, after excluding it, purging the database, and restarting HA.
Will post again, once a day has past, to let you know it that worked.

31

Same here :man_facepalming:

Everything startet after switching from RPI3 to 4

Meanwhile i changed to the 3rd SSD adapter
I tested the SSD with blackmagic and crystaldiskmark nearby to the death
I use the original rpi power supply
I can’t see anything in the logs at all

Reboot / Fresh Install → 24 - 72h :: FREEZE !

actual i switched over to a A2 SD card instead of SSD
the next step would a try with 32Bit instead of 64Bit
lets see

really annoying :sleepy:

32

I had the same problem and a completely fresh install (no snapshot restore) seems to have fixed it. Details here: HassIO stops responding every so often - #75 by bradymholt

33

Hi,
This sounds just like my case. Did you find a fix to this?
Thanks in advance!

34

Worked for me to exclude that custom input_text entity from the recorder!

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35

Hi,

Could you share an example on how to apply this workaround?

36

Sure!

I started with excluding all domain types from being recorded (see below), restarting HA, and checking the logs to see if stuff was being recorded again.

Then I progressively enabled domains again, by commenting out those lines (see below).

Finally, I figured out it had to do with one of my custom input_text fields. So leaving that excluded got everything stable and working again.

recorder:
  [...]
  exclude:
    domains:
      - automation
      # - binary_sensor
      - camera
      # - climate
      - device_tracker
      # - group
      # - input_boolean
      - input_text
      # - light
      # - person
      # - sensor
      - sun
      # - switch
      - water_heater
      - weather
      - weblink
      - updater
      - zone
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Thx, I had the same issue and it’s better now with your trick.