Newbie: Simple way for updating?

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi there,

first of all, i’m a newbie to raspberry. I just downloaded an image and installed it via etcher as written here:
https://www.home-assistant.io/getting-started/

Everything ran flawlessly and i started right away with configurung my home :slight_smile:

Now i get a sensor on top of my home tab, telling me there is an update available (0.86.1).
I am running 0.85.1 according to the info page.

Now for my question: when i clock on the sensor, all i see is the meassage itself (Update availabe) and a link to here: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/installation/updating/

But where do i put the mentioned $ pip3 install --upgrade homeassistant?
I thought there would be an Update-Button somewhere, but i do have to do this manually, right?
I cannot connect via putty (connection refused).

Can someone guide me in the right direction here?

Thnak you very much in advance,
cpo

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You need to go into your hass.io menu (on the left), it should inform you of the available update right on the first page and you can update from there

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Thanks: @donnae, but i do not see this menu on the left?

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I think, i saw that sometimes in the beginning, but it went away somehow? i cannot recall configuring it away :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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Did you turn off discovery?
Did you install Home Assistant or hass.io?

You need either:

discovery:

Or:

hassio:

In configuration.yaml to see the hass.io in the side panel.

If you didn’t install hass.io then no hass.io in side panel.

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Oh, so you are not on Hass.io but on Home Assistant. (or what David said, maybe the missing config-entry). Thats a difference and you are in the wrong forum here.

In that case you need to SSH into your pi and run the command there id say

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I am a bit confused right now.

first: @DavidFW1960: i commented discovery: out. Once i reactivated it, the hass.io-Panel reappeared on the left side. Then i could update from there - all went well, running 0.86.1 now. Yeah! :slight_smile:

Now for the confusing part (at least for me):
I was under the impression, that i installed a thing called “home assistant” on my pi via https://www.home-assistant.io/getting-started/
“Hass.io” was merely a abbreviation for that, wasn’t it?

Could you be so kind and try to explain the difference to me? Are these two different products?

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Hass.io is just a different way of installing Home Assistant. There’s a LOT of ways to install it but Home Assistant=Home Assistant however you install it. As per my post leave either discovery: or hassio: in config.

Why did you comment out discovery?

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Thank you very much for this explanation! That sheds a light on some things :slight_smile:
I thought, there was ONE prefered way of installation, as there seems only this way to be promoted via the website.

I did comment discovery out because after every restart i did receive a notification about lots of UPNP-Devices that were newly discovered. I just don’t need these at the moment (mostly sensors of my Fritz!-Router) and wanted just to get rid of this notification and unconfigured discoveries.
I did not notice that the hass.io Panel went away with that.

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If you want (as David said) you can comment out discovery: and put hassio: in there to still get the HassIO panel to show up

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Just did that and now i am satisfied.

Thank you all so much for your quick response and help! :hugs:

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You can do this:

discovery:
  ignore:
    - igd

But why? Just add the UPnP/IGD integration and done… it’s not an issue!

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Oh, ok.

I did add the integration and all the sensors showed up at the top.
But since they are not of interest to me, i simply was too lazy to hide each and everyone.
Since all the important sensors where added during the first run and i do not plan to add new ones so fast, i figured, i activate it again, when something new is to discover :slight_smile:

I’m playing around with HA for merely 2 days now. Hopefully i will get better at understanding everything :slight_smile:

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You will only get sensors you specifically add displaying with lovelace… it was only the old state view where it just showed everything.

I also edited the discovery stuff above as I made a mistake with the exclusion.

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Thank you, @DavidFW1960 :slight_smile: