Based on the false premise it’s seperate from HassOS. With Raspbian, the kernel is updated as part of Raspbian. A firmware update is part of the o/s update. The Pi itself is not flashed.
I do not see the original poster mentioning HassOS, just that they did not go with the Raspbian method so they were not sure how to update the firmware through Hassio (legit question that seems overlooked). Then there is a follow up regarding confusion where one section refers to them separately “If you are running HassOS and Hassio” to which I would belong - maybe that is the false premise you are referring to? Anyway, even at the command line level it doesnt seem like updating the firmware is doable, right? Edit: i see my mistake - thinking that the rpi4 has storage separate from the sd card. It would have to be done at the os level if needed. I have not fully switched to rpi4 so wanted to update the firmware before fully switching but not possible. thanks!
Not doable or necessary. It is included with a HassOS update. If you run Raspbian it is included in Raspbian. It is no longer needed to apply a firmware update separately and hasn’t been for a long time. It is JUST SOFTWARE and it’s part of the base OS update.
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Hell yes it’s necessary. It turns down the thermostat on the Pi4.
Running the rpi-eeprom update on a Pi4 with Raspbian on it stopped it from being a furnace. That guy, as well as me, would like some instructions on how to perform exactly that on HASSOS, i.e. updating the Pi4 bootloader.
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Toss in a raspbian flashed SDcard into the Pi4 run the rpi-eeprom update, shutdown and place your HassOS card back in.
Just for clarity sake EEPROM updates are not firmware, they are similar to a BIOS update.
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This will not do anything. It will be part of a HassOS update.
Are you sure? My understanding is it would update the Pi4 EEPROM with new code.
EDIT: Nevermind they use the rpi-eeprom package to update the bootloader which is just software. Thank you @DavidFW1960
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Correct but it’s amazing how often this comes up and how people rant about it and don’t believe the answer.
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Can this not be closed with a link to the upcoming HassOS release that contains the update? https://github.com/home-assistant/hassos/pull/475 likely save sometime replying to rants.
So when the new firmware for RPI4 will have the USB Boot support we will have to update only HASSOS via supervisor?
That’s what he’s stating.