Raspbian-stretch-full 2018-11-11 pip install homeassistant fails

Installation
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I installed 2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch-full.img to my 32GB SDcard and booted, went through initial configuration steps (including update), enabled SSH and disabled GUI and rebooted. Then I plugged in my Nortek GoControl USB dongle and /var/log/messages confirmed that /dev/ttyUSB1 and /dev/ttyUSB2 were created.

I SSH’d into the Raspi machine, ran “pip install homeassistant”, and the first time it failed with the following:

homeassistant requires Python ‘>=3.5.3’ but the running Python is 2.7.13

(although python3.5 was also installed). I changed the symlink for python to the 3.5 version and tried again. This time it got further, but failed with the following:

Collecting aiohttp==3.5.4 (from homeassistant)
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/python-wheels/urllib3-1.19.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/urllib3/connectionpool.py”, line 594, in urlopen
chunked=chunked)
File “/usr/share/python-wheels/urllib3-1.19.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/urllib3/connectionpool.py”, line 391, in _make_request
six.raise_from(e, None)
File “”, line 2, in raise_from
File “/usr/share/python-wheels/urllib3-1.19.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/urllib3/connectionpool.py”, line 387, in _make_request
httplib_response = conn.getresponse()
File “/usr/lib/python3.5/http/client.py”, line 1198, in getresponse
response.begin()
File “/usr/lib/python3.5/http/client.py”, line 297, in begin
version, status, reason = self._read_status()
File “/usr/lib/python3.5/http/client.py”, line 266, in _read_status
raise RemoteDisconnected(“Remote end closed connection without”
http.client.RemoteDisconnected: Remote end closed connection without response

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py”, line 215, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py”, line 353, in run
wb.build(autobuilding=True)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/wheel.py”, line 749, in build
self.requirement_set.prepare_files(self.finder)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py”, line 380, in prepare_files
ignore_dependencies=self.ignore_dependencies))
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py”, line 554, in _prepare_file
require_hashes
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req/req_install.py”, line 278, in populate_link
self.link = finder.find_requirement(self, upgrade)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/index.py”, line 465, in find_requirement
all_candidates = self.find_all_candidates(req.name)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/index.py”, line 423, in find_all_candidates
for page in self._get_pages(url_locations, project_name):
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/index.py”, line 568, in _get_pages
page = self._get_page(location)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/index.py”, line 683, in _get_page
return HTMLPage.get_page(link, session=self.session)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/index.py”, line 792, in get_page
“Cache-Control”: “max-age=600”,
File “/usr/share/python-wheels/requests-2.12.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl/requests/sessions.py”, line 501, in get
return self.request(‘GET’, url, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/download.py”, line 386, in request
return super(PipSession, self).request(method, url, *args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/share/python-wheels/requests-2.12.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl/requests/sessions.py”, line 488, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File “/usr/share/python-wheels/requests-2.12.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl/requests/sessions.py”, line 609, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File “/usr/share/python-wheels/CacheControl-0.11.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl/cachecontrol/adapter.py”, line 47, in send
resp = super(CacheControlAdapter, self).send(request, **kw)
File “/usr/share/python-wheels/requests-2.12.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl/requests/adapters.py”, line 423, in send
timeout=timeout
File “/usr/share/python-wheels/urllib3-1.19.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/urllib3/connectionpool.py”, line 643, in urlopen
_stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
File “/usr/share/python-wheels/urllib3-1.19.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/urllib3/util/retry.py”, line 315, in increment
total -= 1
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -=: ‘Retry’ and ‘int’

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Can anyone point me to the solution to this issue? Thank you.

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Far easier to use Docker. I would recommend you install Docker and pull the HA image for your device form here…

https://hub.docker.com/u/homeassistant

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This is how to install on a raspberry pi manually

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Thank you very much, this is what I was looking for.

However, “pip3 install homeassistant” failed at the following point:

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/60/75/f692a584e85b7eaba0e03827b3d51f45f571c2e793dd731e598828d380aa/certifi-2019.3.9-py2.py3-none-any.whl (158kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 163kB 286kB/s
Collecting ruamel.yaml==0.15.88 (from homeassistant)
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/srv/homeassistant/share/python-wheels/urllib3-1.19.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/urllib3/connectionpool.py”, line 594, in urlopen
chunked=chunked)
File “/srv/homeassistant/share/python-wheels/urllib3-1.19.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/urllib3/connectionpool.py”, line 391, in _make_request
six.raise_from(e, None)
[ … ]
File “/srv/homeassistant/share/python-wheels/urllib3-1.19.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/urllib3/connectionpool.py”, line 643, in urlopen
_stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
File “/srv/homeassistant/share/python-wheels/urllib3-1.19.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/urllib3/util/retry.py”, line 315, in increment
total -= 1
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -=: ‘Retry’ and ‘int’

Perhaps the install script needs some tweaking for Raspian Stretch Lite? Is there an earlier Lite image that this process does work with?

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As it says in the first sentence of the page, it is intended to run on Raspbian Lite.

The first thing to check is that you are using pythion 3 in the virtual environment.

$ sudo -u homeassistant -H -s
$ source /srv/homeassistant/bin/activate
$ python --version

If that returns a version >= 3.5 it should be ok.

Then I would try an earlier version oh HA, say

pip3 install homeassistant=0.89.2
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@gpbenton, thank you for the suggestion. The equal sign should be doubled (homeassistant==0.89.2) or it gives an error, but when I corrected that, it installed correctly.

BTW, I did install Raspbian Lite (the latest version, “stretch”) as the document you sent me suggested, but trying to install the current version of homeassistant on it resulted in the error I posted.

Thank you, again. I look forward to learning how to use this software and to making contributions to this group.

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Trying to install previous version like 0.89.2 didn’t help in my case, still had the same problem.
Had to upgrade pip3.

$ pip3 install --upgrade pip

That did the trick for me, after that I was able to install homeassistant latest with no problem.
Note that I have upgraded pip3 within the venv to avoid trouble for non HA related packages.

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You save me a lot of hours, thanks!

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I would recommend using the Raspbian Buster image, as Stretch has an older version of Python :slight_smile: