You are not supposed to turn it of or reboot.
From the time you insert the SD card then just leave it on and you should get to a onboarding screen where you choose username and password.
Probably, when you rebooted HA skipped the onboarding.
thanks for your help, much appreciated. Let me precise my procedure and what I see:
I was installing HA in the OS version on the SD card using etcher.
If I understood correct, this version includes an
OS to run on a raspberry pi4 and
the HomeAssistant application it selves
by installing it on the SD card, the card will be formatted upfront.
After successful installation on the SD card (that’s what etcher says), I remove it from my PC card reader and enter it into raspberry pi 4. (network cable is o.k.)
now I start the raspberry and I get the black screen with:
welcome to home Assistant homeassistant login: [ 19.419078] udevd[2021]: bind failed: Address in use [ 19.419078] udevd[2021]: error binding udevd control socket
after playing on the keyboard I get
homeassistant login:
there is no chance to enter any webaddress or anything else.
the system is just asking for the login
while doing try and error I used “root” and got to the Home Assistant command line
Can I start HomeAssistant from command line?
If so, how?
Hi al.
I am new of HA, so I have no knowledge of this system.
Following the instructions I created the VM using VirtualBox and run it. When the boot is complete, HA asks for login.
At this point I believe I should create a User ID entering the web page.
When I try entering the webpage I got an error that tells my the page does not exists. I tried not only homeassistant.local:8123 link but also:
Just faced the same issue. Problem was that there was another HA server on the same domain, and the homeassistant.local address was taken. So, I had to login to the fresh system using its own IP address.
I setup my first homeaisstant VM on proxmox and right after the setup after few minutes of exploring the home assistant UI I was logged out and I didn’t remember the username.
Spent hours try to recover the username without any luck. I had to delete the VM and create again from scratch. And when I arrive at the initial setup screen now I remember my previous username.
So if anyone else is struggling the same way I did. Let me tell you. Your username is the same as your Home name you gave in the setup screen.
Why most of the people forget their username is that on the setup screen you don’t enter the username instead you enter the Home name and setup automatically puts your home name in small letters as your username, so mostly people will not change it.