I have home assistant core on raspberry pi4 and I want to restart whole rpi.
How can I do this? Now after the update there is just one restart option. And this doesn’t restart the whole pi.
Also where is now check configuration before restart option?
So confusing.
Select “Config > Hardware” then click the 3 dots to access “Reboot host”.
“check configuration” is now in the Developer Tools
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I found check configuration, thanks.
But i cant find this “Config > Hardware”
I only have this in settings:
Hardware is in System
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And the restart option is in the top right menu there. Quite well hidden 
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And not without good reasons! 
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That depends… If people start to hot-unplug because they cannot find a graceful shutdown you’re worse off.
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If people do it like that (just cutting the power) I’m quite sure that would be the kind of folks that are addressed with the hidden buttons. They shouldn’t do it at all! 
Thank You for the help. I need to restart the host once in a while or my zigbie2mqtt and some other addons don’t work.
Normally it should be enough to just restart the corresponding addOn (Z2M). As these are containers, they can be restarted without restarting the host.
A restart of the host is only necessary in very, very rare cases. What seems to be the problem with some of you addOns? Maybe there is a better solution than restarting the whole machine.
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They just stop working, and you cannot restart them because of some HA error. And this persist even after normal restart. Only host restart helps.
And, also You cant update anything, because of some HA error. I cant show You the error now because I just restarted, and it is fixed.
I can post it next month here.
Here we go, so there is an error with something! If you want to, post it when you get the logs and we can try to resolve the underlying error. It’s always better than periodically restarting the whole machine!
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Geeze, I am so frustrated with HA. Some as simple as restarting the system requires a ton of time searching YouTube and then finding it hidden so deeply is really nuts. I am rethinking my decision from getting off SmartThings.
I can understand the frustration. But, as Paddy pointed out, restarting the host is quite something. You should really think if that is the right way forward, especially with add-ons running. Restart Home Assistant is way more visible, and the wise choice 99% of the time.
I cannot comment on Smartthings through personal experience, just research. Home Assistant is more complex, and Smartthings is more beginning user friendly. But that friendlyness comes at the cost of a closed, cloud based platform. Home Assistant is way more open, flexible and local/privacy focussed.
When your smart home expands, you’ll appreciate the fact that Home Assistant’s possibilities are virtually limitless. That this brings some added complexity is inevitable. But Home Assistant has come a long way in reducing that complexity. So hang with it for a while, don’t give up too easily.
