[SOLVED] First install failed - Noob question

Installation Home Assistant OS
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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

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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?

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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 … ?

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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.

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

Thanks