I was running Home Assistant in a VM on a mini-pc and I migrated it over to a Raspberry Pi 5 using an NVME connected to the pcie. I used a backup from my VM and restored it to the Pi 5. It kept crashing after about an hour and the only option to reboot it was to pull the plug and plug it back in, which then prevents it from booting all the way. I can still ping the IP address though, even though it doesn’t boot all the way, but it seems the port is closed.
I’ve reinstalled several times so I don’t know if there is something wrong with migrating the backup over to the Pi or is HA just unstable on the Pi 5 at this time. Anyone else having trouble or can give me some insight?
I’m using the official Raspberry PI power supply and it’s a 8GB model. I’m using the latest haos_rpi5-64-17.2.img
It was running in a VM on the mini-pc and I wanted to free up some resources on it. The Pi 5 was just sitting in a drawer unused so I thought I’d give it a try. Seems like too much hassle though if it’s too unstable.
All I can say is I have not recommended anyone use a pi for multiple years. Yes there’s are known issues with certain types of NVME and pi 5. Dunno if that’s what you’re hitting. But I know it is a real thing.
I also know the notorious problem of power on the pi USB bus didn’t magically get solved for Pi5.
Beyond that many people use them fine. I’ve just literally never seen anyone willingly move TO a pi once they moved to virt of any type… Except maybe Virtual Box. (also you wouldn’t catch me spending ANY time on this issue whatsoever…)
Yeah, I gave up. I was just bored really and thought I’d set it up as a dedicate HA server. I’ll just upgrade my mini-pc instead. I guess there is a reason the Pi is sitting in the drawer unused.
Yes - apparently some NVMe drives are missing command sets the RPi kernel expects, and some hats / USB-C carriers are better than others. The “official” kernel from RPiOS desktop installs may well push the SSD harder than HAOS so my desktop testing might not be exactly the same as current HAOS kernels:
Pimoroni NVME hat & Samsung EVO SSD - was wobbly at launch with the RPi desktop, so gave up and bought…
RPi Foundation M.2 HAT+ & RPi Foundation M.2 SSD (PCIe 2.0/3) - Solid as a rock (as you’d expect - they test stuff)
USB-C dock & Samsung EVO NVMe - slightly slower than the HAT+, but seemed fine for desktop image testing
A Yellow upgraded with a Samsung EVO SSD with a RPi CM5 has worked well with the HAOS kernel for over a year (official heatsink fits, needs holes for airflow).
With the right hardware a RPi5 can work, but the economics of RAM and storage for new hardware are indeed pricing them out in favour of SFF x86 boxes (e.g. like the Lenovo ThinkCentre this post is being written on!)