How to compile esphome on a Pi 3

the-programmer · August 7, 2022, 11:20am

Today I wanted to add a wemos d1 mini with ds18b20 temperature sensors to home assistant. So, after installing the add-on I fired off the compilation for my new device (just the default config).

However a few minutes into the compilation home assistant just crashed.
From google I found the following 2 pages.
1: My issue.

2: Looks quite similar

github.com/esphome/issues

ESPHome firmware compilation crashes HA Core

opened 08:14AM - 19 Jan 22 UTC

closed 12:09AM - 27 Oct 22 UTC

maretodoric

Project: Home Assistant Addon

### The problem Every time after ESPHome is updated and i initiate a firmware u…pgrade on end device, Home Assistant core instance crashes without notice. This only seems to happen if full compile is needed, not when firmware itself is at the latest version. Is this due to RAM constraints of Raspberry Pi 3B+ or is something else in play? ### Which version of ESPHome has the issue? 2022.1.0 ### What type of installation are you using? Home Assistant Add-on ### Which version of Home Assistant has the issue? core-2021.12.7 ### What platform are you using? ESP8266 ### Board nodemcu ### Component causing the issue core ### Example YAML snippet _No response_ ### Anything in the logs that might be useful for us? ```txt 22-01-19 09:04:30 INFO (SyncWorker_3) [supervisor.docker.interface] Updating image ghcr.io/esphome/esphome-hassio-armv7:2021.12.3 to ghcr.io/esphome/esphome-hassio-armv7:2022.1.0 22-01-19 09:04:30 INFO (SyncWorker_3) [supervisor.docker.interface] Downloading docker image ghcr.io/esphome/esphome-hassio-armv7 with tag 2022.1.0. 22-01-19 09:05:41 INFO (SyncWorker_3) [supervisor.docker.interface] Stopping addon_15ef4d2f_esphome application 22-01-19 09:05:43 INFO (SyncWorker_3) [supervisor.docker.interface] Cleaning addon_15ef4d2f_esphome application 22-01-19 09:05:43 ERROR (MainThread) [aiohttp.server] Error handling request Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/aiohttp/web_protocol.py", line 435, in _handle_request resp = await request_handler(request) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sentry_sdk/integrations/aiohttp.py", line 121, in sentry_app_handle reraise(*_capture_exception(hub)) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sentry_sdk/_compat.py", line 54, in reraise raise value File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sentry_sdk/integrations/aiohttp.py", line 111, in sentry_app_handle response = await old_handle(self, request) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/aiohttp/web_app.py", line 504, in _handle resp = await handler(request) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/aiohttp/web_middlewares.py", line 117, in impl return await handler(request) File "/usr/src/supervisor/supervisor/api/middleware/security.py", line 139, in system_validation return await handler(request) File "/usr/src/supervisor/supervisor/api/middleware/security.py", line 205, in token_validation return await handler(request) File "/usr/src/supervisor/supervisor/api/utils.py", line 65, in wrap_api answer = await method(api, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/src/supervisor/supervisor/api/addons.py", line 408, in stats stats: DockerStats = await addon.stats() File "/usr/src/supervisor/supervisor/addons/addon.py", line 674, in stats return await self.instance.stats() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 58, in run result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs) File "/usr/src/supervisor/supervisor/docker/interface.py", line 536, in _stats stats = docker_container.stats(stream=False) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/docker/models/containers.py", line 422, in stats return self.client.api.stats(self.id, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/docker/utils/decorators.py", line 19, in wrapped return f(self, resource_id, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/docker/api/container.py", line 1139, in stats return self._result(self._get(url, params={'stream': False}), File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/docker/api/client.py", line 277, in _result return response.json() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 910, in json return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0) 22-01-19 09:05:43 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.addons] Add-on '15ef4d2f_esphome' successfully updated 22-01-19 09:05:45 INFO (SyncWorker_2) [supervisor.docker.interface] Cleanup images: ['ghcr.io/esphome/esphome-hassio-armv7:2021.12.3'] 22-01-19 09:05:54 INFO (SyncWorker_0) [supervisor.docker.addon] Starting Docker add-on ghcr.io/esphome/esphome-hassio-armv7 with version 2022.1.0 22-01-19 09:06:52 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from a0d7b954_ssh 22-01-19 09:06:52 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from a0d7b954_ssh 22-01-19 09:06:52 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /host/info access from a0d7b954_ssh 22-01-19 09:06:52 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /core/info access from a0d7b954_ssh 22-01-19 09:06:59 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from a0d7b954_ssh 22-01-19 09:06:59 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /network/info access from a0d7b954_ssh 22-01-19 09:06:59 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /host/info access from a0d7b954_ssh 22-01-19 09:07:00 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.middleware.security] /core/info access from a0d7b954_ssh 22-01-19 09:09:08 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.websocket] Connection is closed 22-01-19 09:09:17 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.misc.tasks] Watchdog miss API response from Home Assistant 22-01-19 09:09:32 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.misc.tasks] Watchdog found a problem with Home Assistant Docker! 22-01-19 09:09:33 INFO (SyncWorker_7) [supervisor.docker.interface] Starting homeassistant 22-01-19 09:09:34 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.core] Wait until Home Assistant is ready 22-01-19 09:10:12 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.resolution.evaluate] Starting system evaluation with state CoreState.RUNNING 22-01-19 09:10:12 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.resolution.evaluate] System evaluation complete ``` ### Additional information _No response_

So from what I understood is that a Pi 3 simply does not have enough RAM to compile esphome. Now I could try to increase the SWAP space as described here but that does not “feel” right.

Can someone tell me how I can compile this or do I simply have to wait for my home assistant yellow and place my Pi 4 with 4GB or RAM in order to make this work?

The equipment I have:

Chromebook (with Linux and Android)
Windows laptop
Pi 2

Can I run the compilation on one of those or do I really have to wait?

nickrout · August 7, 2022, 11:26am

You can use the chromebook or the windows laptop.

bkbartk · August 7, 2022, 11:37am

personally I do increase the swap file with 2GB, and yes, I’m waiting for the yellow as well

before that, I compiled with windows, that was about a year ago, So I can’t give you any hints right now.
but it’s possible

What I know is, Increasing the swap file and deploying from HA is way easier.