I just recently updated hass.io and noticed that the restart option under the hass.io has changed and I’m unfamiliar with how this is done now. I see ‘reload’ under hass.io supervisor, and ‘reboot’ under host system. Anywhere I can find an explanation of what these are and what they do?
Noticed the same here. Wanted to restart hass.io to try out some changes to my config and the option is just not there. I used the Hass.io SSH add-on to get in and did a hassio homeassistant restart to get it done in the mean time. Hope the UI option comes back soon!
You can use the SSH method VdkaShaker mentions, or go to: Configuration -> General. It’s under Server Management.
yeah I have yet to use SSH to access the system, and have started trying to get that set up today but my connection keeps getting refused, so I’m unable to restart that way.
In the past when I’ve used the option through configuration it’s been really unstable and caused a lot of crashes. Is that different now?
Yes, there is the option you refer to, but I’m unclear. We have under a Hass.io menu options to restart the OS, restart the Supervisor, and we used to have the option to restart Hass. What is the “server” restart under the Configuration | General menu restarting?
The supervisor is the component that takes care of certain processes like the items in the Hassio tab. You’ll probably never need to restart it, unless you update the supervisor manually. It will usually update and restart itself.
The option isn’t to restart the OS, but to reboot the OS. It’s just like rebooting your computer. A bit overkill when all you want to do is restart the Home Assistant server.
When you’re running Home Assistant, it is acting as a server for all of your home automation gadgets. It’s sitting there serving any data to and from your devices. Restarting the server is just restarting Home Assistant. It’s quicker than rebooting the OS. This is the same as the server restart that used to appear in the Hassio menu.
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Agree with your points. We, I think, are looking for a way to restart HA when we make tweaks without rebooting, or restarting the OS. Sounds like Server is the right option, since for some reason, the option was removed from the Hass.io options.
The one under configuration does a config check before restarting and will tell you if it doesn’t like what it finds but you can force it by clicking the button again, this is why there is a long pause where it does appear to be doing anything before you get the connection lost message. The one that uses to be in the hassio menu just restarted it and the message popped up straight away.
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Really? If it does that, why is there an option to check the config? That just seems redundant. I don’t think the pause before a restart is as long as the check config pause on my Pi.
No idea, I only found out after the hassio menu one disappeared and got annoyed and gave up for the day because I didn’t think it had worked. When I went back later, a message about the config had appeared in the front end.
Are you sure that message you saw was from clicking the restart button? If a component is not configured right, that won’t necessarily keep it from restarting. For example, I tried to enable the new HomeKit and did something wrong, so I got a message on my UI after the restart. I fixed it and restarted again and the message didn’t come back, so that’s a normal feature when something is not configured correctly, assuming it still allows HA to start.
Yep, happened a few times. Like I said, I assumed it didn’t do anything at all because it didn’t come up with the Lost connection message and the Log hadn’t reset.
I believe the option you are looking for is now located under Developer Tools > YAML
Have a nice day 
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Thank you for pointing this out, I just went thru the last 15 minutes trying to figure out how to reload it because I had some stuff stopped updating last night and I wanted to try a restart of HA before a reboot of the entire server…absolutely stupid! I could find where to see system status, where to reboot the host, but not where to reload HA.
This feels like they are moving things around just for the hell of it…and not in a logical way. Since when is “restart something” a developer function and not a system management function?