My original computer running home assistant died and I failed to keep a back up. I decided to take my Raspberry Pi 5 with an M.2 hat and load HAOS on it by booting up to Raspberry OS on the micro SD card, then using the imager to install HAOS version 17 onto the M.2. That all goes just fine.
Now when I get into HA, it goes through the normal setup and it has discovered these:
I can then add a device, I go to add my ThirdReality Smart Button. It adds it just fine until I go to automations. It does NOT have the single, double, long press options as it did in my previous setup of HA.
I’m at a lost at this point and hoping someone could point me into the right direction. If it is a matter of starting over, not a big deal as reloading HAOS is like 2 minutes and I’m back to Square One.
Open the device page in HA for that button. Now do a single, double & long press. Do you see them in the activity on the right side of the device page?
If you do, that should be enough to get them to show up in the HA Automation dropdown (not sure if a HA restart is required).
If you don’t (or they’re still missing from the automation screen), then the next best thing is to listen to zha_event in the developer tools page and use that for automation triggers.
I thought my issue was I didn’t save my backup key anywhere. Decided to do a check in my ProtonPass and my past-self was smart enough to save that key in there!
The restore was successful, but the Zigbee Home Automation is unware of the new ip address. I know that right now I can get back to this point.
Boot on the micro SSD of RaspberryOS on my Raspberry Pi 5
Run Imager to install HAOS on the M.2
Navigate to the IP for HomeAssistant
Restore my backup
Now I get to play with getting the IP address set correctly for a few things…guess that gets to wait till late tonight…
