Installing Home Assistant Supervised using Debian 12

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in /var/log/daemon.log I see supervisor lines:

Aug 18 17:40:01 hassio hassio-supervisor[939]: #033[32m20-08-18 15:40:01 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.store.git] Update add-on https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons repository#033[0m
Aug 18 17:40:01 hassio hassio-supervisor[939]: #033[32m20-08-18 15:40:01 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.store.git] Update add-on https://github.com/hassio-addons/repository repository#033[0m
Aug 18 17:40:01 hassio hassio-supervisor[939]: #033[32m20-08-18 15:40:01 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.store.git] Update add-on https://github.com/Limych/hassio-addons repository#033[0m
Aug 18 17:40:01 hassio hassio-supervisor[939]: #033[32m20-08-18 15:40:01 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.store.git] Update add-on https://github.com/sabeechen/hassio-google-drive-backup repository#033[0m
Aug 18 17:40:03 hassio hassio-supervisor[939]: #033[32m20-08-18 15:40:03 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.store] Load add-ons from store: 69 all - 0 new - 0 remove#033[0m
Aug 18 17:41:06 hassio hassio-supervisor[939]: #033[32m20-08-18 15:41:06 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant] Updated Home Assistant API token#033[0m
Aug 18 17:42:07 hassio hassio-supervisor[939]: #033[32m20-08-18 15:42:07 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.security] /snapshots access from cebe7a76_hassio_google_drive_backup#033[0m
Aug 18 17:42:25 hassio hassio-supervisor[939]: #033[32m20-08-18 15:42:25 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.updater] Fetch update data from https://version.home-assistant.io/stable.json#033[0m
Aug 18 17:42:25 hassio hassio-supervisor[939]: #033[33m20-08-18 15:42:25 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.updater] Can't process version data: 'null'#033[0m
Aug 18 18:11:09 hassio hassio-supervisor[939]: #033[32m20-08-18 16:11:09 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant] Updated Home Assistant API token#033[0m
Aug 18 18:32:02 hassio hassio-supervisor[939]: #033[32m20-08-18 16:32:02 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.updater] Fetch update data from https://version.home-assistant.io/stable.json#033[0m
Aug 18 18:32:02 hassio hassio-supervisor[939]: #033[33m20-08-18 16:32:02 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.updater] Can't process version data: 'null'#033[0m

Maybe this is also the problem that I canā€™t update to 0.114.2?

Can't process version data
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Yup. If Supervisor canā€™t process version data, supervisor canā€™t know there is an update.

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Is there a way to solve this?

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I was able to follow this guide and setup everything on my NUC. HA is running and Iā€™m not getting any errors. Now Iā€™ll move my settings from the Ubuntu/Docker machine which was getting an unsupported environment warning to this machine running Debian/Docker, a supported configuration.

Thanks much for the guide and scripts for a painless installation.

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I canā€™t take credit for the script, but thanks for the feedback on the guide.

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Finally got the Debian 10 64Bit image running on SSD on a RPi4 - Here my full steps.
P.S. Since then super fast HA. :smiley:

https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/raspios_arm64-2020-05-28/2020-05-27-raspios-buster-arm64.zip

Flash image on a SDCard. Add SDcard and your SSD to your RPi4
You can also add already ssh option and you wifi settings on the /boot/ partition of SDcard

Remove the old dphys version

sudo /etc/init.d/dphys-swapfile stop
sudo apt-get remove --purge dphys-swapfile

Refresh your OS

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get full-upgrade

Prepare RPi4 for USB Boot

Refresh your OS with the latest firmware

sudo nano /etc/default/rpi-eeprom-update
sudo rpi-eeprom-update -d -a
reboot

Install RPICLONE (For cloning from SDCard to my SSD, my SSD is /dev/sda, yours can be different)

git clone https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone.git 
cd rpi-clone
sudo cp rpi-clone rpi-clone-setup /usr/local/sbin
sudo rpi-clone sda

After RPICLONE is done open a new terminal window

nano /mnt/clone/boot/cmdconfig.txt

Add rootdelay=5 cgroup_memory=1 cgroup_enable=memory to the line and save the file.
Exit the terminal

shutdown now

Remove the SDCard and boot from SSD now.
Correct location and timezone

raspi-config

Install Docker

sudo -i
apt-get install software-properties-common -y
apt-get update
apt-get install modemmanager
reboot now

Reason I install modem manager first and reboot, because when do with network-manager my RPi freeze

apt-get install network-manager
apt-get install apparmor-utils apt-transport-https avahi-daemon ca-certificates curl dbus jq socat bash curl 
curl -fsSL get.docker.com | sh

Install Hass.io

systemctl stop ModemManager
systemctl disable ModemManager
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer/master/installer.sh | bash -s -- -m raspberrypi4

DONE

Here some links I get the information from:


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Note disabling a service does not mean is isnā€™t started or cannot be started, simply that it is not started at boot. If another service ā€˜wantsā€™ or ā€˜requiresā€™ a disabled service, the service will start.

The way to prevent the service ever being started is to use systemctl mask on the service.

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I do this only so rpi wonā€™t freeze when I install network-managerā€¦ If this is running and install network-manager at certain point of install there is a freezing. I canā€™t connect to the pi anymore with ssh

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Thank you, these instructions worked perfectly for me, on my NUC.

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there is no boot directory in clone ??? and shouldnā€™t this be sudo nano?

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Do you have the /mnt/clone/boot/?
If so whats in there?

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there is no boot directory in cloneā€¦doesnā€™t exist on my systemā€¦also see my latest noteā€¦some other documentation issues

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other errors?

Before you install modem manager you need to enter sudo -i after the reboot.

dphys-swapfile stop is not recognizedā€¦I just skipped that step.

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Iā€™ll tried evetything now 3 times. last time is system I now running HA onā€¦
Im not a wiskid, just check other pages and combine the steps.

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I keep seeing that my installation is unsupported in the log files and also written next to the supervisor version. I plan to wipe my system and install this on my NUC with your guide, but I donā€™t want to lose all my items. In addition to various integrations, configs, and secrets in the secrets yaml, I also have various items in zwave and zigbee through a USB stick. Can I just run a snapshot in supervisor and save it in a separate location, then run through your steps and restore? Will this guarantee my setup returns to the way it was prior to wiping and running through these steps?

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Nothing is guaranteed. If you take a snapshot of your current installation, and also take a manual backup of your ./storage folder, all .yaml files, www folder, etc, you can be as safe as possible.

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Thanks. So I run through these steps and restore the snapshot?

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Thatā€™s it :+1:

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This worked out great! Thanks!

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I would also like to know this.