This is not a complaint it is just comments. I have been using home assistant for about the last 3 years. I have built a very simple alarm system with a konnected 12 Zone card, a Raspberry Pi 2, home assistant 32-bit OS and the Android companion app to home assistant. For a independent standalone alarm system this has worked very well. The last home assistant update indicated that the 32-bit system will no longer be supported. The same update indicated that 64-bit home assistant would run on Raspberry pi 3 and raspberry pi 4. Nowhere in this announcement did it state that raspberry pi 3 was not recommended for a 64-bit system. I only discovered this after buying a raspberry pi 3B+ and later reading the home assistant blog. The same announcement also indicated that if I did a backup with the new home assistant backup system on my raspberry pi 2B, I would be able to restore that backup to a newly installed 64-bit home assistant OS system on my raspberry 3B+. The raspberry 3B+ backup restore system refuse to read the files created by the raspberry 2B backup system. After much frustration I simply abandoned the backup system and copied my home assistant files from the raspberry pi 2B to the raspberry pi 3B+. All is working well now. The raspberry pi 3B+ also seemed to be able to handle the NGINX proxy server allowing me to switch from http to https for outside internet service between my phones and my alarm system. The konnected card and home assistant require a http connection and this proxy service allows local network (unencrypted) for my konnected card yet allows only (encrypted) https access from the outside internet. Home assistant is an awesome system. It Is my hope that in the process of upgrading and updating home assistant does not become unusable for my purposes.
This has been a gripe for a lot of people. Upgrade for the sake of Upgrade. Ideally this project should run on a lot of hardware but I understand that the less they have to worry about the more they can focus on.
HA is a great product and I’ve been using it for a really long time. The amount of growth is really phenomenal, but again, a lot of times it seems way to hastened.
Unfortunately people will say “you had time to prepare” but that shouldn’t be the answer. Glad you got it working but at least you know that it may be short lived and that you need to prepare for changes.
They make it quite hard to even get hold of a 64-bit HAOS image for RPi 3, don’t they? I had a 32-bit system until last weekend and the only source of an image seemed to be the Raspberry Pi Imager Windows application. Oh well. It worked for me.
My backup was read by the on-boarding system no problem. Did you have encryption enabled? I had turned it off so it is just a straightforward tar file.
Waiting for RPi 3 support to be deprecated next but they can’t have my RPi 4 yet.
Raspberry Pi 3 has been removed from the suggested hardware page because of it’s memory limitations. The same applies to the Pi4 1GB model for the same reasons.
They’re not saying it’s unsupported (yet) - they’re trying to ensure you have an optimal experience with the product. I’ve seen far too many threads here where memory issues on a Pi3 caused random crashes and corrupted SD cards due to constant Swap usage.
Can you run HA on a Pi3? Absolutely.
Is it recommended? No, see below
Is it reliable in the long-run? No, because software grows as new features are added, leading to increased memory consumption. Hardware requirements from 9 years ago will no longer cut it.
If you had a 9 year old phone running Android 7, you’d expect it to be sluggish and not fully compatible with the latest apps. Why do you think a server running your home automations should be any differently?
It absolutely should run it. Why should people have to upgrade hardware for features they’re never going to use? I’m running, for the most part, almost the exact same set up as I was when I first started many many moons ago. Nothing’s changed on my end other than fixing things when an ‘upgrade’ borked it. I’m still running the exact same ‘features’. Probably less since so much has been deprecated since I started.
You’re just pointing out the bloat in future systems.
You most definitely aren’t running the exact same features or less.
Have a look back at the new features announced in the blog posts since you joined in 2017. There’s quite a few, and I’m pretty sure you use at least a few of those, despite the fact you say you’re never gonna use them.
Even if that weren’t the case, you can’t expect new features not to be rolled out for the rest of the users, just because you consider them as “bloat”.
I did both encrypted and unencrypted backups from my Raspberry Pi 2 to the Raspberry Pi 3. I have my current Raspberry Pi 3 set to no encryption for backups. When I attempted to restore the backups to the Raspberry Pi 3, it kept complaining that I needed to use a home assistant backup tar file which I was. Thank you for your comment.