I am trying to install a new Raspberry Pi-based Home Assistant computer. The first things I did was to install the Raspberry Pi OS on the device. I then enabled both the wired and wireless Ethernet ports. I was able to SSH to the device, both wired and wirelessly; and from the device, I was able to access the world. All good.
I then followed the instruction here, www.home-assistant.io/installation/raspberrypi/, to install Home Assistant and everything broke. I was no longer able to access the Raspberry Pi, either wired or wirelessly, sigh. Not sure who wrote these instructions, but in my opinion, they are quite bad.
So, would you please direct me to instructions, that work, related to the installation of Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 3. Thanks.
Make sure you pick the Pi3 32bit image to install with Etcher.
Make sure your Pi is hard wired when you boot for the first time and this can take a long while (30+minutes) as it first boots then downloads the HA stuff.
If it still fails you will have to connect up a monitor to the Pi to see shat is going on.
You followed the instruction to install the home assistant “operating system”, this is replacing the OS you installed previously… So you will not longer be able to connect on raspbian the way you did but through HassOS using the link “homeassistant.local:8123” via a browser. After being connected, you can add add-ons like the one to connect via SSH… I was on Raspbian before in a virtual environment and moved to HassOS for additional functionalities and it simplified drastically the maintenance of the OS (all is integrated: home assistant, add-ons, supervisor and OS)… So to connect on what you installed, just connect to homeassistant.local:8123 from Google or Firefox… and you will be rolling !