New Installation or salvageable?

[matt.jukes]

Hello all, so my weekend has been rolling down hill since Friday, and this latest drop of bad fortune has landed me here hoping for a ray of light, but expecting the inevitable.

I recently moved house, and so my HA has been offline for some time. Earlier today I connected it up and update it etc. only to find that some genius (me) had uninstalled his MS Authenticator which included the HA token.

Since then I have tried SSH (Network Refused) and Samba, which I know is installed, but neither saved me.

At this point, I suspect I will have to install HA from scratch, but I was really hoping to avoid that. Are there any other suggestions?

Thanks
Matt

[NathanCu (Nathan Curtis)]

First here’s the official I’m locked out post…

I'm locked out!

First if you still have the ms account that authenticator is tied to you can restore it. Set it up to login as the account that held the pass codes and tokens back it should have the token. I move my ms auth between two phones on the reg.

If that doesn’t work you’re either resetting that acct or adding a new one with admin that doesn’t use a token.

[samrocketman (Sam Gleske)]

If you still have access to your HA files you can find the passcode within the installation. I wrote about it in this post. HA keeps it in plain text.

Bricked on latest OS update (what are my options?)

Your home assistant backup password can be retrieved from a JSON file located at /usr/share/hassio/homeassistant/.storage/backup That’s the name of the JSON file (no extension). For example you can get the password using jq command jq .data.config.create_backup.password /usr/share/hassio/homeassistant/.storage/backup

[matt.jukes]

I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I’m an IT support technician. At some point though, my authenticator’s restore function was turned off, so when I tried to restore today, I was given 2 of the 20+ accounts that were listed previously. You live and learn.

[matt.jukes]

Surely this is reliant on being able to access the files, but as I mentioned I can neither SSH or Samba on to the device.

I’ve tried the various ways to delete the auth files, but I can’t get into access them. I can reach the login screen via the hostname or IP, but I can’t get past that.

[matt.jukes]

I may just go to bed and call the weekend over.

I was working on this as a headless system, never considering the alternative.

Thank you. I think I’m winning now

[samrocketman (Sam Gleske)]

Two ways to get access to the files:

• Hook it up to a monitor and keyboard to access it directly without the network.
• Or remove the storage from the device and mount it on a separate computer so that you can browse the files.

Once you’re able to access backups and the password, then restore becomes easier instead of having to start over.