I started 8 years ago on Raspberry Pi 3 and MicroSD,
Transfered to Raspberry Pi 4 (faster) still MicroSD,
Then transferred to an Odroid N2+ with great succes until recently.
Home Assistant keeps failing without change or warning.
It always starts with Add-ons not working.
After that HA is unable to restart/reboot (UI button does nothing) and repowering bricks the machine.
Now I bought 2 new 36gb High Endurance Sands MicroSD’s but both won’t do the initial HA strart-up but the old slow 16gb does?..
I can return to old MicroSD and that runs couple of days before failing.
How do I run a reliable system?
I don’t even care about money anymore.
I just want a simple Home Assistant install that doesn’t die without any input from me.
Like I said: I tried better MicroSD’s but they wouldn’t even star
So I cant really give you a solution, but I have a question… are you transfering your existing setup from the old card to the new?
I ask, becasue I’ve only been using HA for a few months, and while I’m an absolute novice, I’ve not had a relaiablity issue yet… meaning my HA is solid…
I run the HAOS on a Protectli with Proxmox 8. It’s been super solid. So reading what you have experienced makes me feel that you might have some corrupted runtime or something.
No I use fresh MicroSD with fresh HA OS. It’s really weird. It will only complete initial set-up about 1/5 of the time. Meaning to get to the first welcome/set-up screen. Then I try to upload a backup and that only works sometimes.
Maybe you have some bad memory on your device. Do you have your old RPi that you could just test your image and SDcard with? It really sounds like you could be experiencing a hardware issue, if it has suddenly started having isses, and with new SD cards.
Unfortunately no, I don’t have my old Raspberry Pi’s.
But the thing is with an old 16gd MicroSD it still works after it bricks.
I flash the MicroSD with new HA OS, let it initialize and throw my latest backup at it and it works. Within a week it bricks again…
I’m gonna buy a new 32GB MicroSD that’s not high performance and see if that works.
I’ve tried looking up booting from SD with Order but can’t find enough instructions
It sounds as if you’re installing haos directly onto the odroid?
Have you tried installing proxmox as a vmos then creating a VM to install haos onto?
Things like swap file size come to mind, or some other memory allocation issue, maybe?
Proxmox is free at least so it’s only a bit of time and may help the situation.
I don install HAOS directly, I put it on the MicroSD. I have now ordered an EMMC with HAOS pre-installed for my Odroid with 32gb and I hope that will solve my problems.
It’s coming late this month but I’ll tell this thread if it works/boots without problems. For now I keep reflashing the only MicroSD that works (instead of the 5 brand new (high performance) ones that for some reason don’t even boot a brand new install) and uploading the back-up because that works flawlessly somehow (for like 3 days before the whole system bricks again).
if running it from the EMMC on the ODROID N2+ still doesn’t work long-time I think I give up. I have put too much of my time on this for the past 10 years to still worry about it basically functioning every day.