Installing Home Assistant Core 2023.2.2 in a Python vEnv on Raspberry Pi 3B+ step by step

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Installing Home Assistant Core 2023.2.2 on Raspberry Pi 3B+ step by step

I installed Home Assistant Core 2022.11.3 in a virtual environment (pip) on a clean Raspberry Pi 3B+ device(debian 11).

I can’t guarantee that the new version will install and run successfully, so I decided to do a fresh install first in order not to affect the operation of the existing system. After all problems are resolved, the existing system will be upgraded. This article is the problems encountered during the installation process and the solutions. It took me days for my peers to refer to.

Environment

  • Operating system and architecture: Debain 11, arm64

I tired following this official guide: Installation - Home Assistant

I’ve updated to Python 3.10 and installed 2022.11.3

In summary there is a couple of steps involved, but from a High-Level, this is what’s required:

Create and change to a virtual environment for Home Assistant Core

sudo useradd -rm homeassistant20230201 -G dialout,gpio,i2c


#create a directory for the installation of Home Assistant Core
sudo mkdir /srv/homeassistant20230201

#change the owner to the homeassistant20230201 account
sudo chown homeassistant20230200:homeassistant20230200 /srv/homeassistant20230200

sudo -u homeassistant20230201 -H -s
cd /srv/homeassistant20230201
python3.10 -m venv .
source bin/activate

before install Home Assistant Core(in a virtual environment)

You have to install wheels first. Try following this official guide: Installation - Home Assistant

pip install --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install wheel

Install Home Assistant Core


#Stop the Homeassistant service for free port 8123
sudo systemctl stop home-assistant@homeassistant

pip3 install homeassistant==2023.2.1  (in a virtual environment)

resolve some errors


pip3 install cryptography  (in a virtual environment)
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh  (in a virtual environment)
sudo apt -y install rustc    (not in a virtual environment)
pip3 install pyOpenSSL --upgrade

Other:checklist

(homeassistant20230201) homeassistant20230201@raspberrypi:/srv/homeassistant20230201 $ python3 -m pip --version
pip 22.3.1 from /srv/homeassistant20230201/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip (python 3.10)
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first Install

(homeassistant20230201) homeassistant20230201@raspberrypi:/srv/homeassistant20230201 $ pip3 install homeassistant==2023.2.1


Looking in indexes: https://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Collecting homeassistant==2023.2.1
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Collecting home-assistant-bluetooth==1.9.2
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  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting PyJWT==2.5.0
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/pyjwt/PyJWT-2.5.0-py3-none-any.whl (20 kB)
Collecting astral==2.2
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Collecting orjson==3.8.5
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Collecting async-timeout==4.0.2
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/async-timeout/async_timeout-4.0.2-py3-none-any.whl (5.8 kB)
Collecting bcrypt==4.0.1
  Downloading https://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/packages/8c/ae/3af7d006aacf513975fd1948a6b4d6f8b4a307f8a244e1a3d3774b297aad/bcrypt-4.0.1.tar.gz (25 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting yarl==1.8.1
  Downloading https://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/packages/d6/04/255c68974ec47fa754564c4abba8f61f9ed68b869bbbb854198d6259c4f7/yarl-1.8.1.tar.gz (172 kB)
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Collecting pyyaml==6.0
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  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting ifaddr==0.1.7
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/ifaddr/ifaddr-0.1.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl (10 kB)
Collecting lru-dict==1.1.8
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  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Collecting requests==2.28.1
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/requests/requests-2.28.1-py3-none-any.whl (62 kB)
Collecting awesomeversion==22.9.0
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/awesomeversion/awesomeversion-22.9.0-py3-none-any.whl (12 kB)
Collecting ciso8601==2.3.0
  Downloading https://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/packages/05/29/39180b182b53acf7b68abd74f79df995fcb1eee077047cb265c16e227fbc/ciso8601-2.3.0.tar.gz (26 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting pyOpenSSL==23.0.0
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/pyopenssl/pyOpenSSL-23.0.0-py3-none-any.whl (57 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: pip<22.4,>=21.0 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (22.3.1)
Collecting voluptuous-serialize==2.5.0
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/voluptuous-serialize/voluptuous_serialize-2.5.0-py3-none-any.whl (3.4 kB)
Collecting typing-extensions<5.0,>=4.4.0
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Collecting jinja2==3.1.2
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/jinja2/Jinja2-3.1.2-py3-none-any.whl (133 kB)
Collecting attrs==22.2.0
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/attrs/attrs-22.2.0-py3-none-any.whl (60 kB)
Collecting python-slugify==4.0.1
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Collecting voluptuous==0.13.1
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/voluptuous/voluptuous-0.13.1-py3-none-any.whl (35 kB)
Collecting httpx==0.23.3
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/httpx/httpx-0.23.3-py3-none-any.whl (71 kB)
Collecting atomicwrites-homeassistant==1.4.1
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/atomicwrites-homeassistant/atomicwrites_homeassistant-1.4.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (7.1 kB)
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response'))': /simple/cryptography/
Collecting cryptography==39.0.0
  Downloading https://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/packages/12/e3/c46c274cf466b24e5d44df5d5cd31a31ff23e57f074a2bb30931a8c9b01a/cryptography-39.0.0.tar.gz (603 kB)
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  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting certifi>=2021.5.30
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/certifi/certifi-2022.12.7-py3-none-any.whl (155 kB)
Collecting aiohttp==3.8.1
  Downloading https://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/packages/5a/86/5f63de7a202550269a617a5d57859a2961f3396ecd1739a70b92224766bc/aiohttp-3.8.1.tar.gz (7.3 MB)
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  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Installing backend dependencies ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting frozenlist>=1.1.1
  Downloading https://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/packages/e9/10/d629476346112b85c912527b9080944fd2c39a816c2225413dbc0bb6fcc0/frozenlist-1.3.3.tar.gz (66 kB)
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  Installing build dependencies ... done
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Collecting aiosignal>=1.1.2
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/aiosignal/aiosignal-1.3.1-py3-none-any.whl (7.6 kB)
Collecting charset-normalizer<3.0,>=2.0
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Collecting multidict<7.0,>=4.5
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  Installing build dependencies ... done
  WARNING: Missing build requirements in pyproject.toml for multidict<7.0,>=4.5 from https://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/packages/4a/15/bd620f7a6eb9aa5112c4ef93e7031bcd071e0611763d8e17706ef8ba65e0/multidict-6.0.4.tar.gz#sha256=3666906492efb76453c0e7b97f2cf459b0682e7402c0489a95484965dbc1da49 (from aiohttp==3.8.1->homeassistant==2023.2.1).
  WARNING: The project does not specify a build backend, and pip cannot fall back to setuptools without 'wheel'.
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Installing backend dependencies ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting pytz
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/pytz/pytz-2022.7.1-py3-none-any.whl (499 kB)
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response'))': /simple/cffi/
Collecting cffi>=1.12
  Using cached cffi-1.15.1-cp310-cp310-linux_armv7l.whl
Collecting sniffio
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Collecting rfc3986[idna2008]<2,>=1.3
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Collecting httpcore<0.17.0,>=0.15.0
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/httpcore/httpcore-0.16.3-py3-none-any.whl (69 kB)
Collecting MarkupSafe>=2.0
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  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Collecting text-unidecode>=1.3
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/text-unidecode/text_unidecode-1.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (78 kB)
Collecting idna<4,>=2.5
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Collecting urllib3<1.27,>=1.21.1
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Collecting pycparser
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Collecting h11<0.15,>=0.13
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Collecting anyio<5.0,>=3.0
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/anyio/anyio-3.6.2-py3-none-any.whl (80 kB)
Building wheels for collected packages: aiohttp, bcrypt, ciso8601, cryptography, home-assistant-bluetooth, lru-dict, pyyaml, yarl, frozenlist, MarkupSafe, multidict
  Building wheel for aiohttp (pyproject.toml) ... done
  Created wheel for aiohttp: filename=aiohttp-3.8.1-cp310-cp310-linux_armv7l.whl size=1225630 sha256=d012050fb8ac6acb15139a6c203e26c3490045f4788d5dc5e75e0bc8502ec364
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  Building wheel for bcrypt (pyproject.toml) ... done
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  Building wheel for ciso8601 (pyproject.toml) ... done
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  Building wheel for cryptography (pyproject.toml) ... done
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  Building wheel for home-assistant-bluetooth (pyproject.toml) ... done
  Created wheel for home-assistant-bluetooth: filename=home_assistant_bluetooth-1.9.2-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_31_armv7l.whl size=9884 sha256=22d42563bfc6ece55318c719873a72c5afb9eaeef1ae2f5a39784b1379832033
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  Building wheel for lru-dict (setup.py) ... done
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  Building wheel for pyyaml (pyproject.toml) ... done
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  Building wheel for MarkupSafe (setup.py) ... done
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  Building wheel for multidict (pyproject.toml) ... done
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  Stored in directory: /home/homeassistant20230201/.cache/pip/wheels/84/89/57/9fdebb526f075d13263c5b18728f07d541de30bee71e056313
Successfully built aiohttp bcrypt ciso8601 cryptography home-assistant-bluetooth lru-dict pyyaml yarl frozenlist MarkupSafe multidict
Installing collected packages: voluptuous, text-unidecode, rfc3986, pytz, lru-dict, ifaddr, ciso8601, voluptuous-serialize, urllib3, typing-extensions, sniffio, pyyaml, python-slugify, PyJWT, pycparser, orjson, multidict, MarkupSafe, idna, home-assistant-bluetooth, h11, frozenlist, charset-normalizer, certifi, bcrypt, awesomeversion, attrs, atomicwrites-homeassistant, async-timeout, astral, yarl, requests, jinja2, cffi, anyio, aiosignal, httpcore, cryptography, aiohttp, pyOpenSSL, httpx, homeassistant
Successfully installed MarkupSafe-2.1.2 PyJWT-2.5.0 aiohttp-3.8.1 aiosignal-1.3.1 anyio-3.6.2 astral-2.2 async-timeout-4.0.2 atomicwrites-homeassistant-1.4.1 attrs-22.2.0 awesomeversion-22.9.0 bcrypt-4.0.1 certifi-2022.12.7 cffi-1.15.1 charset-normalizer-2.1.1 ciso8601-2.3.0 cryptography-39.0.0 frozenlist-1.3.3 h11-0.14.0 home-assistant-bluetooth-1.9.2 homeassistant-2023.2.1 httpcore-0.16.3 httpx-0.23.3 idna-3.4 ifaddr-0.1.7 jinja2-3.1.2 lru-dict-1.1.8 multidict-6.0.4 orjson-3.8.5 pyOpenSSL-23.0.0 pycparser-2.21 python-slugify-4.0.1 pytz-2022.7.1 pyyaml-6.0 requests-2.28.1 rfc3986-1.5.0 sniffio-1.3.0 text-unidecode-1.3 typing-extensions-4.4.0 urllib3-1.26.14 voluptuous-0.13.1 voluptuous-serialize-2.5.0 yarl-1.8.1

[notice] A new release of pip available: 22.3.1 -> 23.0
[notice] To update, run: pip install --upgrade pip
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Change the title please, add something like „in a Python vEnv“.

Otherwise I’d tend to post a one-liner using Docker …

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Of course, the correct approach is to just follow the documentation. If it’s outdated or wrong (eg missing the requirement for cargo) then submit an update using the links at the bottom of that page.

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Troubleshooting installation problems

first-install fails

error: Rust 1.48.0 does not match extension requirement >=1.56.0

Reason

I believe it was related to cryptography and a minimum required rust version

Solution

Building cryptography requires having a working Rust toolchain. The current minimum supported Rust version is 1.48.0. This is newer than the Rust some package managers ship , so users may need to install with the instructions below.


(homeassistant20230201) homeassistant20230201@raspberrypi:/srv/homeassistant20230201 $ curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
info: downloading installer
warning: it looks like you have an existing installation of Rust at:
warning: /usr/bin
warning: rustup should not be installed alongside Rust. Please uninstall your existing Rust first.
warning: Otherwise you may have confusion unless you are careful with your PATH
warning: If you are sure that you want both rustup and your already installed Rust
warning: then please reply `y' or `yes' or set RUSTUP_INIT_SKIP_PATH_CHECK to yes
warning: or pass `-y' to ignore all ignorable checks.
error: cannot install while Rust is installed

uninstall your existing Rust

sudo apt remove rustc

output


root@raspberrypi:~# sudo apt remove rustc
正在读取软件包列表... 完成
正在分析软件包的依赖关系树... 完成
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re-install with

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

output

(homeassistant20230201) homeassistant20230201@raspberrypi:/srv/homeassistant20230201 $ curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
info: downloading installer

Welcome to Rust!

This will download and install the official compiler for the Rust
programming language, and its package manager, Cargo.

Rustup metadata and toolchains will be installed into the Rustup
home directory, located at:

  /home/homeassistant20230201/.rustup

This can be modified with the RUSTUP_HOME environment variable.

The Cargo home directory is located at:

  /home/homeassistant20230201/.cargo

This can be modified with the CARGO_HOME environment variable.

The cargo, rustc, rustup and other commands will be added to
Cargo's bin directory, located at:

  /home/homeassistant20230201/.cargo/bin

This path will then be added to your PATH environment variable by
modifying the profile files located at:

  /home/homeassistant20230201/.profile
  /home/homeassistant20230201/.bashrc

You can uninstall at any time with rustup self uninstall and
these changes will be reverted.

Current installation options:


   default host triple: armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
     default toolchain: stable (default)
               profile: default
  modify PATH variable: yes

1) Proceed with installation (default)
2) Customize installation
3) Cancel installation
>1

info: profile set to 'default'
info: default host triple is armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
warning: Updating existing toolchain, profile choice will be ignored
info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf'
info: default toolchain set to 'stable-armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf'

  stable-armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf unchanged - rustc 1.67.0 (fc594f156 2023-01-24)


Rust is installed now. Great!

To get started you may need to restart your current shell.
This would reload your PATH environment variable to include
Cargo's bin directory ($HOME/.cargo/bin).

To configure your current shell, run:
source "$HOME/.cargo/env"

restart your current shell

sudo -u homeassistant20230201 -H -s
cd /srv/homeassistant20230201

source bin/activate

useful links
Error: Failed building wheel for cryptography

6

second install

root@raspberrypi:~# sudo -u homeassistant20230201 -H -s
homeassistant20230201@raspberrypi:/root $ cd /srv/homeassistant20230201
homeassistant20230201@raspberrypi:/srv/homeassistant20230201 $ source bin/activate
(homeassistant20230201) homeassistant20230201@raspberrypi:/srv/homeassistant20230201 $ pip3 install homeassistant==2023.2.1

output

Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Requirement already satisfied: homeassistant==2023.2.1 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (2023.2.1)
Requirement already satisfied: yarl==1.8.1 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (1.8.1)
Requirement already satisfied: ifaddr==0.1.7 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (0.1.7)
Requirement already satisfied: cryptography==39.0.0 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (39.0.0)
Requirement already satisfied: async-timeout==4.0.2 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (4.0.2)
Requirement already satisfied: atomicwrites-homeassistant==1.4.1 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (1.4.1)
Requirement already satisfied: python-slugify==4.0.1 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (4.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: voluptuous-serialize==2.5.0 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (2.5.0)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2021.5.30 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (2022.12.7)
Requirement already satisfied: PyJWT==2.5.0 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (2.5.0)
Requirement already satisfied: jinja2==3.1.2 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (3.1.2)
Requirement already satisfied: aiohttp==3.8.1 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (3.8.1)
Requirement already satisfied: awesomeversion==22.9.0 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (22.9.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pyOpenSSL==23.0.0 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (23.0.0)
Requirement already satisfied: attrs==22.2.0 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (22.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: httpx==0.23.3 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (0.23.3)
Requirement already satisfied: home-assistant-bluetooth==1.9.2 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (1.9.2)
Requirement already satisfied: pip<22.4,>=21.0 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (22.3.1)
Requirement already satisfied: astral==2.2 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (2.2)
Requirement already satisfied: requests==2.28.1 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (2.28.1)
Requirement already satisfied: voluptuous==0.13.1 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (0.13.1)
Requirement already satisfied: bcrypt==4.0.1 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (4.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: orjson==3.8.5 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (3.8.5)
Requirement already satisfied: pyyaml==6.0 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (6.0)
Requirement already satisfied: lru-dict==1.1.8 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (1.1.8)
Requirement already satisfied: typing-extensions<5.0,>=4.4.0 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (4.4.0)
Requirement already satisfied: ciso8601==2.3.0 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from homeassistant==2023.2.1) (2.3.0)
Requirement already satisfied: aiosignal>=1.1.2 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from aiohttp==3.8.1->homeassistant==2023.2.1) (1.3.1)
Requirement already satisfied: frozenlist>=1.1.1 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from aiohttp==3.8.1->homeassistant==2023.2.1) (1.3.3)
Requirement already satisfied: multidict<7.0,>=4.5 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from aiohttp==3.8.1->homeassistant==2023.2.1) (6.0.4)
Requirement already satisfied: charset-normalizer<3.0,>=2.0 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from aiohttp==3.8.1->homeassistant==2023.2.1) (2.1.1)
Requirement already satisfied: pytz in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from astral==2.2->homeassistant==2023.2.1) (2022.7.1)
Requirement already satisfied: cffi>=1.12 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from cryptography==39.0.0->homeassistant==2023.2.1) (1.15.1)
Requirement already satisfied: rfc3986[idna2008]<2,>=1.3 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from httpx==0.23.3->homeassistant==2023.2.1) (1.5.0)
Requirement already satisfied: sniffio in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from httpx==0.23.3->homeassistant==2023.2.1) (1.3.0)
Requirement already satisfied: httpcore<0.17.0,>=0.15.0 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from httpx==0.23.3->homeassistant==2023.2.1) (0.16.3)
Requirement already satisfied: MarkupSafe>=2.0 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from jinja2==3.1.2->homeassistant==2023.2.1) (2.1.2)
Requirement already satisfied: text-unidecode>=1.3 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from python-slugify==4.0.1->homeassistant==2023.2.1) (1.3)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3<1.27,>=1.21.1 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from requests==2.28.1->homeassistant==2023.2.1) (1.26.14)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<4,>=2.5 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from requests==2.28.1->homeassistant==2023.2.1) (3.4)
Requirement already satisfied: pycparser in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from cffi>=1.12->cryptography==39.0.0->homeassistant==2023.2.1) (2.21)
Requirement already satisfied: h11<0.15,>=0.13 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from httpcore<0.17.0,>=0.15.0->httpx==0.23.3->homeassistant==2023.2.1) (0.14.0)
Requirement already satisfied: anyio<5.0,>=3.0 in ./lib/python3.10/site-packages (from httpcore<0.17.0,>=0.15.0->httpx==0.23.3->homeassistant==2023.2.1) (3.6.2)

[notice] A new release of pip available: 22.3.1 -> 23.0
[notice] To update, run: pip install --upgrade pip

run ok

7

First-run setup fails

Unfortunately I get some errors during startup which ends up in not workung integrations

hass -v

output

Installation pillow hass-nabucasa etc  fails

Solution

installed manually

Attempting install of pillow==9.4.0

(homeassistant20230201) homeassistant20230201@raspberrypi:/srv/homeassistant20230201 $ pip install pillow==9.4.0 -i https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple

Pillow supports these Python versions.
https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html

Attempting install of hass-nabucasa==0.61.0

(homeassistant20230201) homeassistant20230201@raspberrypi:/srv/homeassistant20230201 $ pip install hass-nabucasa==0.61.0 -i https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple

pip install home-assistant-frontend==20230202.0  -i https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple

pip install PyNaCl==1.5.0  -i https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple

Unable to install package home-assistant-frontend==20190626.0

https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/24968

8

No module named '_sqlite3

SQLite is a C library that implements an SQL database engine. Programs that link with the SQLite library can have SQL database access without running a separate RDBMS process.

1.sqlite3 is built into Python’s standard library (sqlite3 — DB-API 2.0 interface for SQLite databases — Python 3.11.4 documentation), you should not try to install it using pip.

If you had used the standard version of Python you would not have this problem.The standard Python version is 3.9.2

2.If import sqlite3 does not work either, it means you’ve compiled Python without SQLite support, and you need to build it again after installing the libsqlite3-dev package.

python3
root@raspberrypi:~# python3


>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/local/lib/python310.zip', '/usr/local/lib/python3.10', '/usr/local/lib/python3.10/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages']
>>> import sqlite3
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/sqlite3/__init__.py", line 57, in <module>
    from sqlite3.dbapi2 import *
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/sqlite3/dbapi2.py", line 27, in <module>
    from _sqlite3 import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_sqlite3'
>>>

Solution

  1. Install SQL Lite by:
sudo systemctl stop [email protected]
wget https://sqlite.org/2021/sqlite-autoconf-3360000.tar.gz
tar -xvf sqlite-autoconf-3360000.tar.gz
./configure
make
sudo make install

2 . Install Python-3.10.9 by:

root@raspberrypi:# cd Python-3.10.9

edit setup.py

root@raspberrypi:~/Python-3.10.9# vi setup.py

old

def detect_sqlite(self):
        # The sqlite interface
        sqlite_setup_debug = False   # verbose debug prints from this script?

        # We hunt for #define SQLITE_VERSION "n.n.n"
        sqlite_incdir = sqlite_libdir = None
        sqlite_inc_paths = [ '/usr/include',
                             '/usr/include/sqlite',
                             '/usr/include/sqlite3',

find " sqlite_inc_paths" add

'/usr/local/sqlite/include'
'/usr/local/sqlite/include/sqlite3'

as follow：

       sqlite_incdir = sqlite_libdir = None
        sqlite_inc_paths = [ '/usr/include',
                             '/usr/include/sqlite',
                             '/usr/include/sqlite3',
                             '/usr/local/include',
                             '/usr/local/include/sqlite',
                             '/usr/local/include/sqlite3',
                             '/usr/local/sqlite/include',
                             '/usr/local/sqlite/include/sqlite3',
                             ]

save & exit

upgrade Python as follow:

root@raspberrypi:~/Python-3.10.9#  ./configure --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions
root@raspberrypi:~/Python-3.10.9# make -j 4
root@raspberrypi:~/Python-3.10.9# sudo make install

checklist

python3

>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/local/lib/python310.zip', '/usr/local/lib/python3.10', '/usr/local/lib/python3.10/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages']
>>> import sqlite3
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/sqlite3/__init__.py", line 57, in <module>
    from sqlite3.dbapi2 import *
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/sqlite3/dbapi2.py", line 27, in <module>
    from _sqlite3 import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_sqlite3'
>>> import sqlite3

ok

useful links

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/raspberrypi-ha-core-version-3-27-2-of-sqlite-is-not-supported/352858/2?u=msly

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/raspberrypi-ha-core-version-3-27-2-of-sqlite-is-not-supported/352858

9

When you compiled Python you did so with some required system libraries missing.

10

Install home assistant core 2023.2.2 on debian 11 updated:20230206

run ok

#step 1.Install SQLite3
sudo systemctl stop [email protected]
wget https://sqlite.org/2021/sqlite-autoconf-3360000.tar.gz
tar -xvf sqlite-autoconf-3360000.tar.gz
./configure
make
sudo make install

#step 2.Install Python-3.10.9 with enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions
root@raspberrypi:# cd Python-3.10.9
edit setup.py

root@raspberrypi:~/Python-3.10.9# vi setup.py
find " sqlite_inc_paths" add

'/usr/local/sqlite/include'
'/usr/local/sqlite/include/sqlite3'
as follow：

       sqlite_incdir = sqlite_libdir = None
        sqlite_inc_paths = [ '/usr/include',
                             '/usr/include/sqlite',
                             '/usr/include/sqlite3',
                             '/usr/local/include',
                             '/usr/local/include/sqlite',
                             '/usr/local/include/sqlite3',
                             '/usr/local/sqlite/include',
                             '/usr/local/sqlite/include/sqlite3',
                             ]
save & exit

upgrade Python as follow:

root@raspberrypi:~/Python-3.10.9#  ./configure --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions
root@raspberrypi:~/Python-3.10.9# make -j 4
root@raspberrypi:~/Python-3.10.9# sudo make install


#Stop the Homeassistant service for free port 8123
sudo systemctl stop home-assistant@homeassistant

#step 3.edit`/etc/pip.conf`
[global]
index-url=https://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/simple
extra-index-url=https://www.piwheels.org/simple

#step 4.Create and change to a virtual environment
# Create and change to a virtual environment
sudo useradd -rm homeassistant20230202 -G dialout,gpio,i2c

#create a directory for the installation of Home Assistant Core
sudo mkdir /srv/homeassistant20230202

#change the owner to the homeassistant20230202 account
sudo chown homeassistant20230202:homeassistant20230202 /srv/homeassistant20230202
# become homeassistant user
sudo -u homeassistant20230202 -H -s
#  cd into your new created directory
cd /srv/homeassistant20230202
# create your new virtual environmet in the current folder
python3.10 -m venv .
# activate the new viltual environment
source bin/activate

#(in a virtual environment)

# install necesary python module and homeassistant
python3 -m pip install wheel

#Install Rust 1.56.0
sudo apt remove rustc
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

#Restart your current shell
sudo -u homeassistant20230202 -H -s
cd /srv/homeassistant20230202
source bin/activate

pip3 install homeassistant==2023.2.2  

# exit the virtual environment and
# start home assistant and check logs for errors
deactivate
sudo service hass start
# check logs
11

Not related to your issues but this is not a good idea to put the version in the directory name.
Except if you plan to do a new one on each release.
Expect a new release 2023.2.3 to be available within a week probably.

Either you’ll upgrade your existing version and the directory will not reflect the version inside it:

cd /srv/homeassistant20230202
source bin/activate
pip3 install -U homeassistant

Or you’ll create a new directory, new venv, new everything and you’ll face all the issues that you’re having today, again.

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12

Hello,
I am trying to install HomeAssistant on my Raspberry Pi 3 model B, following manual Raspberry Pi - Home Assistant

On my Raspberry Pi 3 I am using newest “OS image Raspberry Pi OS with desktop and recommended software” Exactly this one.

I managed to solved all problems related to HA installation (Python 3.10 compilation with ssl, Rust, etc) and installation finally ends with success.

Howevere last step from manual Start Home Assistant Core for the first time
hass
does not take “5 to 10 minutes”… It takes long hours!

After few hours of waiting, I tried several times to clearly install HA. I tried two versions: 2023.2.2 and 2023.2.1 versions, I even made new totally clean instllation of Raspberry OS - all the time the same problem - running hass never ends.
At the moment I am on another try and currently it stuck on “homeassistant.setup”:

2023-02-07 01:34:13.276 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.bootstrap] Waiting on integrations to complete setup: analytics
2023-02-07 01:38:40.927 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.bootstrap] Waiting on integrations to complete setup: ssdp
2023-02-07 01:40:06.385 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.bootstrap] Waiting on integrations to complete setup: bluetooth
2023-02-07 02:00:08.441 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.bootstrap] Waiting on integrations to complete setup: cloud
2023-02-07 02:10:50.368 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.bootstrap] Waiting on integrations to complete setup: mobile_app
2023-02-07 02:11:00.467 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup of default_config is taking over 10 seconds.

Now it is 9:06, so we are on this step for almost 7 hours.
The only files changed during this time are:

pi@raspberrypi:/home/homeassistant $ find /home/homeassistant/ -type f  -mmin -400
/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/home-assistant_v2.db
/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/home-assistant_v2.db-wal
/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/home-assistant_v2.db-shm

pi@raspberrypi:/home/homeassistant $ ls .homeassistant/home-assistant_v2.db* -Al
-rw-r--r-- 1 homeassistant homeassistant  180224 Feb  7 05:12 .homeassistant/home-assistant_v2.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 homeassistant homeassistant   32768 Feb  7 09:00 .homeassistant/home-assistant_v2.db-shm
-rw-r--r-- 1 homeassistant homeassistant 2954072 Feb  7 09:00 .homeassistant/home-assistant_v2.db-wal

It seems only db is built during this time, and it grows from time to time for a few kilobytes.

Anyone had such problem? Does it appear only on Raspberry Pi, or also on other platforms? Anyone has a solution for this? Finally: how log should I wait? Now it is 7 hours, the longest for me at the moment.

13

Honestly… I’d recommend using Docker.

Your startup is long/slow because there’s no wheels for your platform, and in another year you’ll have to build Python 3.11 from source and re-create the venv.

Oh, and if you type hass it won’t “end”, that’s you running Home Assistant (manually rather than from systemd). Now you need to connect to the web UI as covered in the getting started guide.

14

Oh, and if you type hass it won’t “end”, that’s you running Home Assistant (manually rather than from systemd). Now you need to connect to the web UI as covered in the getting started guide.

…
I don’t know how it happens. For sure I was checking http://homeassistant.local:8123 (which was not registered). That time I thought hass did not finish yet. But it seems, I didn’t check other aliases.

Indeed there is a service started on 8123 port, and indeed there is web interface available on localhost:8123.
Thank you so much! So let’s go for Getting Started now! :slight_smile:

15

homeassistant.local requires that mDNS is configured and that the host is called homeassitant, which it probably isn’t.

This guide covers the use of systemd to auto-start HA.

18

I’m about to start a clean install of HA with a python 3.10 upgrade.
Is this post saying that the Official Core Installation Guide needs updating?

20

reboot & reinstall it

22

no,I had an install of HA core 2022.11.2. I have decided to make a fresh install and restored my back up