[SOLVED] First install failed - Noob question

Hi guys. Please help. I’ve downloaded fresh hass.io and “etched” it to new sd card. Then follow instructions and turn on wifi using usb stick. After first boot I have black screen and nothing works. Http link doesnt respond. My wifi settings should be correct. What to do next? Please help

What are you installing on?

Assuming its a Pi, are you getting a blinking green light after you power it on? Does it keep blinking showing that it is setting up the system?

Sorry for not being precise. Raspberry 3b. Hass.io 64bit (tried 32 and 64bit). New Sd card 32 gb. Pendrive formated as CONFIG and directory network + file with hskpsk pass and ssid for my wifi. Raspberry pi blinks. I have rasbian on another SD card and it works fine. I will try to connect Pi to cable today, but Im sure the issue is somewhere else…

Update: unfortunately plugging cable won’t work. I’ve faund that after Etcher the files in my SD card’s size are 30 MB only. Is that ok???

I see overlay directory and a lot of files only … ?

Update: After 2 hours of thinking I’ve managed to start Home Screen using ethernet cable. The solution was to open panel not from hassio.local:8123, but 192.168.X.X:8123, since I found I don’t have mDNS (old router)

"If your router doesn’t support mDNS, then you’ll have to use the IP address of your Pi instead of hassio.local. For example, http://192.168.0.9:8123. You should be able to find the IP address of your Pi from the admin interface of your router. "

… but I still have problem with WIFI connection… any ideas about that?

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have a look at this

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Thanks guys but I’ve watched this video tutorial and red manual before but these solutions won’t solve the problem.
I found the solution that works for me:

  1. Changed wifi channel in router to something between 0 and 11 (I take 6). I found on different topic, that Raspberry Pi 3 don’t use ports greater than 11.
  2. Format Pendrive once again with FAT-32 / CONFIG name (big letters) / added network directory -> added ONLY ONE file my-network (previously I’ve created file with txt extension, and second without extensions). Inside my-network I’ve put the configuration from manual:

[connection]
id=hassos-network
uuid=72111c67-4a5d-4d5c-925e-f8ee26efb3c3
type=802-11-wireless

[802-11-wireless]
mode=infrastructure
ssid=JUST_MY_PERSONAL_SSID

[802-11-wireless-security]
auth-alg=open
key-mgmt=wpa-psk
psk=MY_PASSWORD

[ipv4]
method=auto

[ipv6]
addr-gen-mode=stable-privacy
method=auto

  1. Reboot router, then reboot raspberry Pi with USB Sticked into Raspberry

P.S - after configuring WIFI I can open HA directly from http://hassio.local:8123

I hope that this will help someone. Thanks for help guys!

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Hello!

After flashing the SD card with the hass.io 1 image and starting raspberry pi for the first time a black screen with white letters appeared. There was some loading and things happening, but at the end it stuck on the following line:

HASSOS>

I am not able to connect to http://hassio.local:8123/
Raspberry pi is connected to my router via cable

During the time, in which raspberry pi is working and loading things I can see it connected in the router interface. But once the last line is reached, I don’t see it anymore.
Basically I have no idea what’s going on.

After several hours of trying and flashing it worked by changing the wifi channel.

Thanks