I am trying to install Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 3, something is going wrong, and I haven’t got a clue as to what to try. First, the exact steps I have taken:
I downloaded 2022-01-28-raspios-bullseye-armhf-full.zip from Operating system images – Raspberry Pi and unzipped it.
I ran the Raspberry Pi Imager (V1.7.1), first selecting the above file as the OS, second selecting the microSD card, and third setting the following parameters:
- The hostname
- Enabling SSH
- The user password
- The WiFi SSID, password, and country
- The time zone
I then attached a mouse, keyboard, internet cable, and screen to the Raspberry Pi; installed the SD card, and powered on the Raspberry Pi.
(All of this was done directly on the Raspberry Pi, not via SSH or anything like that) I worked through ‘Welcome to Raspberry Pi Desktop’ by setting the country, language, and time zone; setting the user pi password; selecting a WiFi network (the one specified above was already selected); and then I let it install updates.
When this was done, I went to Raspberry Pi Configuration, selected Display, disabled screen blanking, and let it reboot the Raspberry Pi. I then followed the instructions under ‘Install Home Assistant Core’ from here: Raspberry Pi - Home Assistant.
The first weird thing was this: The following messages appeared
2022-02-17 15:14:20 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.bootstrap] Waiting on integrations to complete setup: cloud
2022-02-17 15:15:45 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.bootstrap] Waiting on integrations to complete setup: zeroconf
I did not touch anything for about 20 minutes. Based on some reading, I opened a browser (on my desktop) and connected to Home Assistant – did this without any issues. Then, via the GUI, I selected Restart and saw the hass command exit (on the Raspberry PI); however, the GUI indicated that it lost connectivity. After about five minutes, I typed hass on the Raspberry Pi and the GUI reconnected.
What should I do differently to get this working? Not sure why the setup is not completing nor do I understand by hass has to be manually restarted.