Installing Home Assistant on a RBpi4 8GB

Installation
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Hi all!

I am a new user to Home Assistant and have recently bought myself a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB with a Sandisk Extreme MicroSDXD 64GB. I am running into trouble when I try to install Home Assistant to my RBPi. Just to be perfectly clear and transparent, these are the steps I have done so far:

This is where everything stops. Nothing happens when I go to this URL, I only get “This site can’t be reached”. I have tried to re-flash the image and done all the steps from the beginning several times but nothing works. Then it hit me, can it be a problem that I have connected the RBPi to a switch that is connected to a Wifi-router? Do I need to be connected with a ethernet cable from my computer as well?

Well guys (and gals), you see that I am struggling and I’m in desperate need of help.

Thanks in advance!

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Insert the SD-card directly into the slot on the RPi and restart, i.e skip the USB card reader.

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Well, that worked like a charm. Feel stupid that I didn’t even try that one out first! Thanks Calle

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Just as a friendly advice, even though that your setup is prefect to start with, Home Assistant is pretty aggressive with the read/write from/to the SD-card. Therefore in the long run it’s preferred to use for instance an SSD-drive instead to reduce the risks.

Because of these issues, be frequent in backing up already from the beginning and save these files elsewhere in case of emergency.

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In addition to @Calle 's post, this is a really great addOn for backups, highly recommended, not only by me:

I don’t do new installs very often, but this is always my first addOn to install! :slight_smile:

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