I have been trying to install HA using the official image through the getting-started links. I have burned the image to the SD card using both balenaEtcher and Raspberry Pi imager.
On the Pi I have monitor connected to HDMI output and keyboard, with network cable to router and 5V power from 2.4A power supply (iPad charger).
But despite my efforts to install, nothing happens (nothing is even outputted to monitor, I believe HA logo or something should be shown during the installation on the monitor).
I have 32GB Transcend SD Card (which seems to work ok).
Now if I use Raspberry imager to install the Raspian or Raspian Lite - the installation (SD card) works ok (and monitor outputs the data and I can use keyboard to log in) → which would indicate that hardware is OK.
I have then installed the HA manually on the top of the Raspian, and the installation completes OK, and I can access the HA home page, and managed to install e.g. Samsung SmartTV interface.
But then I wanted to install Mosquitto MQTT broker following instructions from the below video
Now my problems started as my installation does not have the default folders as official Haspian is not installed. When I also came to start stop the HA server through SSH/local console, it asks password (and the default password does not work), and the folder structure is not the same. Hence my installation does not find the commandline commands such as ‘ha core start’.
My questions are as follows:-
- Any ideas why the official image would not install (tried also both 32-bit and 64-bit, downloaded multiple times to check that the image is not corrupted) ?
- Should official Haspian image output something through HDMI to the monitor?
- If the image install does not work, what is the recommended way to install the Home Assistant?
- What is recommended way to add Mosquitto Broker (links from instructions take to GitHub without further advice how to install it).
- Can Mosquitto MQTT broker run on the same Raspberry Pi as HAS ?
Thank you very much for your help and time.