Installation Probs

Installation
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Hey Guys!

I feel like foolish and hope you can help me…

I used to used NodeRed for my home automation, but a friend advised me to try HomeAssistant as the “better alternative”.

So I took an RPi4 and installed your latest image to test HomeAssistant.

Installed it via RPi Imager in more than one way
-) dierectly selected image inside imager
-) downloaded image, extracted it and burned it to SD card

But NOTHING works. RPi isn´t even starting up (only red led active).

I testet the RPi with raspian OS and HW works. LAN, WLAN, SSH, … everything works fine with raspian OS.

Is there an issue with the latest image?

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This is the official way to install. Ensure that all the hardware requirements are met. Raspberry Pi - Home Assistant.

Also, Node-Red is supported as an Addon for Home Assistant so you can continue to use that if you wish. GitHub - hassio-addons/addon-node-red: Node-RED - Home Assistant Community Add-ons.

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Hey Mark,

I did it exactly as discribed there…

Result: RPi not starting…

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Have you connected a keyboard and monitor so you can watch the boot process and interact with the CLI?

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unfortunately not. I dont have these things. I am working with my PIs headless (only Laptop available).

It cant be found on my FritzBox, so I have no chance to ping it or anything else. Sniffing my WLAN is also without results (as I have expected).

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If you can’t ssh into it or connect a monitor & keyboard it’s going to be very difficult to diagnose. HAve you tried a different network cable?

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I detached my 11’’ touch disply from other pi…

It is not even making output to the hdmi port (no device connected). so it seems to be stuck far before that anywhere.

as written above… only “red led” (power led) is lightned up. normally, during startup, green led is flikering. but it is not even lightning up one time

add-on: cable is working. as discribed above with raspi os everything is working. HW probs can be excluded

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I used this image:
https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/download/14.2/haos_rpi4-64-14.2.img.xz

is there a possibitlity to try older images? I can’t find a kind of “archive” :see_no_evil:

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Have you tried a different / new 32gb SD card?

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I do not understand, why this should help? Maybe I miss something and you can explain why you are sugesstion is to use another SDCard.

I installed raspi os on this card. everything works fine. LAN, WLAN, SSH, TouchDisplay, …

Installing on this SD Card the image from above, nothing works. RPi is not even reaching “HDMI output” (touch display says “no connection”).

There was absolutly no change in the HW between these two scenarios, except the different images.

SDCard size is 256GB A2 (as recommended in the install instructions)

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SD cards can be corrupted for various reasons - that is why I recommended a new / different SD card.

see: Releases · home-assistant/operating-system · GitHub.

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Yes, understand. But why should the card work with raspi os?

Anyway, tried a different one, same situation. I begin to believe that the image itself is not working.

thanks for the link… I try an older one. maybe this works for me…

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Short recap…

I tried:

  • Different versions .(14.2, 14.1 and 12.1) → no success
  • Different SD Cards → no success
  • Different RPi´s → no success

I don´t have any further ideas. Only same thing in every scenario was the PI Imager. Maybe last try, I do a direkt “dd” to burn the image.

Seems it is just one simple issue, but I can not find it… :frowning:

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Could you have selected the wrong image when using the Pi imager?

Have you tried balenaEtcher - Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives.

Edit: how much memory is on your Pi4?

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Red light usually indicates a power issue.

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sorry, but you are wrong… it indicates that the PI has power :wink: (see the link you shared)

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The image was RPi 4 64bit 14.2 so I think it was the right one.

Normally my PIs have “enough” power :wink: these two (I used) have both 948M

Maybe balenaEtcher helps. I will try and report, thx!

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Is that the amount of RAM?

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Yes, output of: vcgencmd get_mem arm

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BbalenaEtcher worked for me! Thx a lot Mark!

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