I would like to get feedback/suggestion from experienced users to understand if others have similar experience
I’m running HA OS on an 8gb Raspi4 with a Sandisk SSD on the USB
I can’t remember a single case when the upgrade of the OS works (from 5 to 6, from 6 to 7) the HA just stopped working and I have to re-install from scratch.
I can start the install only with the version hassos_rpi4-64-5.13.img, if I try to start with any other image after that, it fails. So, I have to install the hassos_rpi4-64-5.13.img and then perform the upgrade to the latest one
Also, sometime after a reboot I’m not able to log on to the HA anymore; the ping works, but it’s impossible to access the web site. If I unplug the power and restart the HA, 90% of the time I see an error saying: “Home Assistant CLI not starting” Jump into emergency console" and there is nothing I can do except re-install everything
I’m pretty much sure there is something wrong with what I’m doing, and I want to learn what I can do to try to figure out what my error is; but I have no clue where I should start. When HA enters this state where I can get logs/info to understand the error?
Thank you in advance to anyone that will spend time reading this post and try to provide me with any ideas
There is a VERY major issue with some (basically ALL the ones available retail where I live) SSD controllers when connected to the raspberry pi 4 USB 3 ports (one of the two that don’t have the blue tongue). Try connecting to a USB 2 port to see if that improves your issue. You might want to try with a fresh install as there’s a high likelihood if this has been your issue that there has been data corruption on your SSD.
There is apparently workaround so you can still use these SSDs on a USB 3 port but I personally never could get it to work on my system and just gave up and accepted using the slower USB2 interface.
i’m on a sorte of home “nuc” (intel bay trail). low cost mother board with integrated intel cpu < 10w.
debian and only 1 ‘home assistant’ container on SSD not supervised.(i have a lot of other containers)
i havn’t any problem with updates.
sometimes i have to correct some automations…that’s all since one year.
Let me follow up here, after some weeks with the new RPI4 firmware (02 dec 2021) it sounds like the update resolves the issue
I will share back how it goes in case others can benefit
I’ve been using SSDs on my pis for years by now, without problems, and I wanted to check if the were on USB 3.0
Everyhing was fine with the SSD (it was on a 3.0 port) but to my surprise I also found a HID device that made no sense in a network cabinet: Turns out it was a keyboard/mouse dongle for an external keyboard I had been looking for for months.These small buggers are lost so easily.
I just wanted to share my experience of having used Home assistant this last year or so on several different devices.
I started out on a raspberry PI 3 as most people did, it worked great until I started loading it with integrations and automations, it then took an age to reboot, things were slow to respond etc.
I then changed to a virtual machine under windows on my main server and it was night and day by comparison, everything ran like lightening and I had no slowdowns. The only problem I had was corruption issues with the VM images which caused issues rebooting etc.
I then moved to a PI4 and SSD drive and to be honest was totaly underwhelmed with the performance, it was a very similar to my experience with the PI3.
I now run the system on an Intel X86 system (Core I5 small form factor Compaq unit) using the specific HASSOS and its absolutely brilliant. Fast, rock solid performance and no crashes at all. Given the PC unit cost me under £100 it was money well spent. This system sits under the kitchen cabinets so it totally out of the way also.
If you can, I would get rid of the PI and look at a more powerful alternative, its absolutely worth it!
I think we need some context when we talk performance. I’m running a Pi 3 B+ and SD card, and have been unable to tax the CPU or memory. I don’t even know what a slow-down would look like. The screens paint as fast as any other web page, the lights go on and off immediately, and reboots take a reasonably short time.
That said, there certainly are applications and integrations which need more horsepower. I don’t do any video or audio, and very little cloud-based stuff.
Probably the biggest reliability and performance issue with HA is the Recorder database. If left at the defaults, the database will grow to be a monster, and take your system down with it. I’d always recommend checking that before looking anywhere else.