I am trying to get my RPi up and running. I downloaded hassos_rpi3-2.12.img and used balenaEtcher to flash the micro-SD.
I purchased this micro-SD since it is what popped up in Amazon when using the ‘recommended’ thread in the HASSio page.
The balenaEtcher program showed ~2.51GB being flashed.
I plugged the SD into the RPi, plugged in an ethernet cable, and then plugged in power.
I tried http://hassio.local:8123 with no luck.
I could not find any device on my router that could be the RPi.
I am still unable to connect, however, an Intel device now shows up on my list of router clients.
I tried http://hassio.local:8123 and http://{the intel device IP}:8123 with no luck.
Questions:
When looking up a RPi on a router, how does it display? could ‘Vendor: Intel Corporation’ be the RPi?
if I SSH to the IP address, I get the following response ssh: connect to host port 22: Connection refused
I am trying to install raspbian, but need a monitor and keyboard to see if I am getting anywhere.
Randomly ssh’ing isn’t going to help if ssh isn’t setup and you are confusing hass.io with raspbian. If you want raspbian, don’t install hass.io
When you install hass.io I think it will show in your router as hassio… not 100% sure. I did =just setup a test system yesterday but the Pi has other uses and I have edited the name of the device in my router so I can’t tell what it would be but pretty sure it will say hassio
@nickrout
I definitely waited 20 minutes. Much longer than that.
@DavidFW1960
I tried both the mDNS address and the IP address. Neither seemed to work.
When HASSio did not seem to work, i thought I would try NOOB or Raspbian, hence the SSH effort. The only requirement to enable SSH is to add a file with no extension, name SSH. Also, on Raspbian, when putting the micro-SD back into my main computer, the name was changed to ‘recover’, so something was crunching.
I will try with a monitor to see if the RPi is booting at all.
I got Raspbian working on the RPi. This is using the sanDisk 64GB micro-SD.
However, it required a monitor and peripherals. The screen came up with ‘SSH is enabled and the default password for the ‘pi’ user has not been changed. …please…set a new password’.
I clicked ok and my LAN monitoring app found a new client on the router as follows: Both Hostname and mDNS Name = ‘raspberrypi’, vendor = ‘raspberry pi foundation’.
I set up wifi, and a second popped up on my LAN app.
I take this to mean I missed something in trying to set up a headless raspberry pi - no connection to LAN (which is needed for headless configuration).
I will try to boot with the PNY, then Hass.io next.
OK. that was fast. I put in the PNY which still had Hass.io on it and it booted up.
The LAN app showed a new client on the router as follows: Both Hostname and mDNS Name = ‘hassio’, vendor = ‘raspberry pi foundation’.
I tried http://hassio.local:8123 from my Mac computer, but that still did not work. On the RPi, the screen showed a rolling list of events. I could tap the enter key and get a ‘hassio >’ prompt. I forget what I did, but it prompted for a username and password. I searched the internet and found ‘root’ as the user name and no password. this brought up the ‘hass io’ DOS artwork. I went back to my Mac and tried http://hassio.local:8123 and it worked.
So the PNY works.
I suppose I will argue that the instructions from Hass.io Getting Started page is not correct. On mine, I was not able to open a browser and claim victory on ‘the hardest part of the install’. Not sure what went wrong there.
I think the only thing to say is that it was still loading the first time you tried. Logging in on the hassio console does nothing from that perspective.
@nickrout
I know it is not DOS, just trying to communicates the interface type - not a GUI.
I gave it a good 1 hour wait after boot up. The hassio client is not showing up on my LAN app, though a raspberry pi device is showing up. I used the non-mDNS access method and get a login page - “You’re about to give http:/// access to your Home Assistant instance.”
I am probably being too cautious here, but am I giving that device access to my Hass instance or am I logging into Hass? I would have expected something like “log-in here”.
And trying to log in, I am getting “invalid username or password”. I set up an account, but that password did not work.
My problem now is that after some time the RPi is no longer showing on the network.
I re-wrote my micro-SD and started from scratch. It seems to be working and I have Hass.io has not lost connection.
I found the following thread that again pointed to SD cards and more.