I think I broke it- no longer see Pi on local network

Hey all:

Looking for some guidance. Everything was up and running. Stable for more than a year. Yesterday I fooled around with a template sensor for the first time. Modified my yaml file, and created a new file, sensors. All was working fine. Sensor worked. Tried to integrate it into an entiity card but couldn’t get it to work, and gave up.

This morning I cannot access home assistant via duckdns. I no longer see it on my network. Rasberry pi has power, red light on, but no lights on for the ethernet port. Tried different cable and port. No difference.

Did my Pi coincidently go bad? any help, or troubleshooting would be most appreciated.

Thanks!

I know, it’s a stressful situation, but please take a deep breath. :slight_smile: As many people are here to help, you’re not giving us any useful information about your setup, the used hardware, what exactly you have done to solve the problem (like a reboot) - anything to help you. :wink: :laughing:

Keep calm, and if you have a recent backup (what you should have), this can be solved! :slight_smile:

You see no change in the link lights to both the switch and the Pi when you plug in? None whatsoever? (unfortunately that’s not a good sign)

Thanks for getting back to me.

Rasberry Pi 4, 8gb model. SSD

I have rebooted it. Fan spins. Red light for power, but nothing else. Plugged it into a monitor, and had no signal.

No lights on either the Pi ethernet port or the switch

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First thing I would try is find a good power supply with enough power, and try with that. You would not be the first to have problems with insufficient power supply.

Edit: as you also do not see any lights on the ethernet port, try a different ethernet cable.

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Even after it has been running all this time with the current power supply? This is what I have:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7RZQ3HY/ref=dp_iou_view_item?ie=UTF8&th=1

What power supply would you recommend?

I have tried multiple ethernet cables with multiple ports

No life on the console and no link lights with a new network cable?

I think it’s dead, Jim.

Try a different power supply but if that doesn’t do ya, probably a different Pi…

But in a bit of irony - if it’s dead the way I think it is your SSD may just boot up on another pi just fine…

Thanks for the advice. I ordered a new one. Coming tomorrow. Fingers crossed it’ll boot from the ssd. Obviously, don’t have it backed up.

I should just plug in the drive and turn it on? Or do I have to do anything with an sd card first?

There’s a step in the Pi setup instructions for SSDs where you ensure the Pi is flashed properly to boot SSDs (it’s been a while since I’ve done it…) as long as new pi has that… It should just go.

You could also pull all the stuff off old Pi and try to boot it with an SD just as an additional proof of pi failure.

And as soon as it’s up make a full backup and save it somewhere else.

So some forward progress but not there. Both power cord/supply AND Pi we bad.

New Pi is up. Boots Get to home assistant command line. However, cannot access home assistant.

Tried with https://***.duckdns.org/lovelace and get error saying unable to connect

Tried http://homeassistant:8123/ and get this site cannot be reached

Tried http://192.168.133 and https://192.168.133 and get this site cannot be reached

Cannot access it via the app

Home assistant observer is visible, and seems fine:

Supervisor: Connected
Supported: Supported
Healthy: Healthy

Any idea on the next step?

Thanks!

Hopefully the last update:

I think I figured it all out.

  1. I was finally able to access it by using https://192.168.133:8123

Everything was there!

  1. Realized (probably obviously to those much smarter than me) that my new Pi has a different ip address.

  2. Reassigned my new home assistant ip address as a static one

  3. Updated my port forwarding rules, and voilá can access it via https://***.duckdns.org/lovelace and via the app!

Thanks to all for the advice and help; this truly is a great community.

And now off to make a backup of my home assistant

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