Problem Statement and Experience
Purchased an Odroid-N2+ to replace my Raspberry Pi as the HA host; choosing the 4Gb version with a 32Gb eMMC card. Initially, I tried to follow the official instructions for writing the HA image using the USB OTG interface but, unfortunately, I think my lone USB micro cable is failing as the verify step consistently failed. Belena seemed to have no issues writing the image but the “storage device” presented by the Odroid would disconnect and reconnect during the verify stage.
Having no confidence the image was being written correctly, I used the mmc reader from Hardkernel and Belena to write the HA OS image to the card. Ensuring that the boot mode switch was toggled to “MMC” I connected the board to network and power and waited for the system to boot. After a brief period of time, the device appeared in my network admin console with a valid IP address but, after waiting as long as a half hour, the address continues to give me a “The connection has timed out” error message. There are some indications that things are happening - both network status lights are illuminated on the network port (green solid, orange intermittently and briefly flashing off); the red power LED is on; and it responds to a ping; however, the flashing “heartbeat” blue LED does not occur.
Troubleshooting Steps Performed
To ensure basic functionality of the board, I flashed the Ubuntu image from Hardkernel, using the same process as before, and connected keyboard and monitor. As expected, the device boots to the operating system and shows the “heartbeat” flashing blue LED.
Thinking perhaps there is an issue with HA OS 12.0, I tried the same steps using OS 11.5 but the issue persisted with the same behavior.
Hoping to get some sign of life with the HA image, I switched the boot selector to “SPI” and connected keyboard and monitor, expecting to see the Petitboot Terminal. This resulted in the network port only illuminating the orange light and the monitor saying “No input”, but the flashing “heartbeat” pattern of the blue LED resumed.
Considering the possibility that my existing HA instance might be clashing with the hostname HA brings out of the box, I renamed the current one to “homeassisant-old”. After this change, I re-flashed the image for the Odroid and attempted to boot again with no change in behavior. I’ve even completely disconnected the Pi from the network and started from the beginning with no success.
At this point, I’m stumped, but it appears others are having problems as well. Can someone please assist?