I have a Pi4 running Home Assistant OS on SD card. I need to deploy this in my elderly mother’s home some 700 miles away. I’ve been running in at my house for almost a year and knock-on-wood the SD card has held up, but I’d really like to get off the SD card. This case with a Pi 4 and M.2 SATA SSD looks perfect:
Is there a clear way to make Home Assistant OS run on this setup? It’s got to be pretty close to the Home Assistant Blue way of doing things. (Maybe I should spend the money and buy the Blue instead.)
I see many posts with attempts to use an SSD and various levels of success. I don’t want to Frankenstein this. I need a robust solution.
Has anyone been able to make the “Argon ONE M.2 /250GB Case & Raspberry Pi 4”, work??
I was able to image the M.2, using the Raspberry Pi Imager program.
When I boot the system, with a 180GB SSD to USB, (my main system), all works fine. It when I shut down, unplug the SSD/Usb, then add the USB Jumper, to connect the M.2 and boot the new HAOS image. With a monitor plugged in, I can see that i boots to the Command Prompt, after displaying the connection info.
When I go to the web page “my-ip:8123” all I see, is the “Preparing Home Assistant” with a notice, that it could take up to 20 minute.
Well, it has been 2 hour now, and it still on that Preparing screen.
Wow, my old topic. What I chose to do, back then, was buy a small NUC-like PC and run HA there. I got a deal on a Lenovo m90n IOT PC. No fan to worry about. I stuck an m.2 SSD in it and it’s been rock solid. I would admit things are much better today with a PI and SSD drives, but back then it was just not solid enough for an instance running 700 miles away.
