Installing Home Assistant on a RPi 4b with SSD boot

I recommend staying at 5.10 at the moment.
So far 5.11 has not been rolled out per OTA to existing installations and we had reports of problems with it in this thread. Could be some supervisor dependency. Not sure yet.

It is working FLAWLESS with Rack extern Axagon EE35-XA3, USB 3.0 + Solid-State Drive (SSD) HP S700, 500GB

Thank you for this post!

Are there still indications 5.11 is giving issues?
My home assistant instance is telling me I can update, but Iā€™m holding back for now when there are problems with this update.

Hi Mick,
I am reluctant too. Will give it a try over the weekend and report back here.

i am on 5.11 already and no problems with my setup

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Ah, good to know! Thanks.

I am also on 5.11 and no problems during upgrade!

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Hi, any ideas on where to start troubleshooting, I still canā€™t upgrade to any new version.

21-01-22 23:05:22 ERROR (SyncWorker_7) [supervisor.docker.interface] Canā€™t install homeassistant/raspberrypi4-64-homeassistant:2021.1.4 -> 404 Client Error for http+docker://localhost/v1.40/images/homeassistant/raspberrypi4-64-homeassistant:2021.1.4/json: Not Found (ā€œno such image: homeassistant/raspberrypi4-64-homeassistant:2021.1.4: No such image: homeassistant/raspberrypi4-64-homeassistant:2021.1.4ā€).
21-01-22 23:05:22 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.core] Updating Home Assistant image failed

Did you try to search the forum for that error msg?
What about this thread?:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/error-updating-to-0-103-6-no-such-image

That thread is not related to HA on Pi4. Iā€™m using 256GB SSD

Judging by the forum posts there seem to be occasional problems like yours with 0.118.x versions.
You could create a snapshot, install a fresh system from scratch and reload the snapshot.

@Jpsy Iā€™m doing that right now. Iā€™ve flashed my SSD with the new 5.11 (hassos_rpi4-64-5.11.img.xz) been waiting for about 15 mins now, and no sign of it online lol! a bit frustrating. I donā€™t have a mini HDMI dongle/cable to plug in a monitor and see whatā€™s going on. Silly question; I donā€™t need to upgrade the EEPROM again from my Raspberry OS SD? Iā€™ve already one that, I only re-flashed the SSD with HassOS

Iā€™m looking at the same configuration here. Are you happy with the x825?

Bob

Nope. The boot EEPROM wonā€™t change when you reinstall HA (as long as you donā€™t use v5.6 to 5.8 which in fact did change it). So you donā€™t have to flash the EEPROM again. On the other hand the latest boot EEPROM code might just solve your problem. There are many boot problems that are addressed through changes in newer boot code versions.

I updated the EEPROM to the latest beta and it boots with a cheap generic USB2 to SATA adaptor every time. Iā€™ve ordered a cheap USB3 to SATA adaptor and have a reasonable confidence it will work. Fingers crossed, as always.

Thank you, still canā€™t access HA, the ā€œPreparing HAā€ page did load for a bit, then disappeared! I can ping the IP but canā€™t get to login page. Iā€™ll start from scratch, still have the Raspberry OS SD.

Yes, completely satisfied. Iā€™ve been running the X825 and ssd Kingston 120 Gb since the beginning of the SSD boot option.
Today I am on HassOS 5.11 without a single problem.
Everything has been working perfectly for half a year.

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Pi 4 8gb
eeprom 16/01/2021
Startech 3.1
Netac 128GB SSD
USB3 bottom socket
Hass 5.11

Piece of cake, worked first time.

And everything resored via Samba.

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Thatā€™s great! Iā€™ll probably place that order today.

Iā€™m having problems getting the SSD process to work. Iā€™ve etched 5.11 onto my SSD via Mac and Windows and get the same result, 8 very small partitions and not a 250GB partition that I would expect. In all, my partitions only come out to a bit over 1GB, so Iā€™m concerned that this wonā€™t work. Plus, unlike when I etched my SD card, this drive cannot be accessed by my operating system after being flashed, making me wonder if something is up.

Is this correct? Whereā€™s the other 249GB?


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