Home Assistant won't boot unless keyboard plugged in

curtisG · January 7, 2021, 1:20pm

Noob to RPI4 + HA world.
I’m trying to set-up a fully headless set-up. Works great but will not boot unless a keyboard is plugged in. Logs don’t show anything (as in no logs are created when trying to boot without keyboard connected), so little to go on.

I thought HA was out-of-the-box set-up for a headless set-up. What am I missing?

Info:

HAOS: 5.9
Supervisor: 2020.12.7
32 bit set-up
RPI4 w/ 8GB memory
Ethernet connected

curtisG · January 8, 2021, 5:40pm

Is there anyone who can help a Noob over here? Why won’t this thing boot unless a USB Keyboard is plugged in? I need this to be fully headless.

Thanks

cascano42 · January 8, 2021, 5:58pm

I am no expert, but maybe it’s the 32bit setup?

Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB and 8 GB model) 64-bit (64-bit is required for 8 GB model)

waldo22 · August 18, 2021, 4:20am

I am also having this problem with my NUC.

Won’t boot without keyboard/monitor plugged in (I can’t tell which one).

There is no UEFI/BIOS setting “halt on keyboard” etc., so that’s not it.

Is this a grub setting? There’s an Ubuntu thread that says to modify /etc/default/grub conf to fix this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="text"
GRUB_TERMINAL=console

…but there’s no such thing. (I know this is Alpine, but couldn’t find anything comparable).

Any suggestions?