Trouble with Autostart on R Pi 3

Installation
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Just finished manual installation of HA and all is working so far. Tried to install autostart as per tutorial and am receiving the following output from systemctl status:

      pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl status home-assistant@hass -l
● [email protected] - Home Assistant for hass
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2016-10-02 15:05:56 UTC; 57s ago
   Process: 645 ExecStart=/usr/bin/hass --runner (code=exited, status=217/USER)
   Main PID: 645 (code=exited, status=217/USER)

Oct 02 15:05:56 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Home Assistant for hass.
Oct 02 15:05:56 raspberrypi systemd[1]: [email protected]: main process exited,     code=exited, status=217/USER
Oct 02 15:05:56 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Unit [email protected] entered failed state.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ journalctl -f -u home-assistant@hass
No journal files were found.
^C
2

Did you reload after adding the service unit file? -> sudo systemctl --system daemon-reload

3

Hi- Yes, I did reload.

4

@fabaff the problem ended up being that I had the wrong file path for hass for ExecStart . I found it with locate, as I did not have whereis installed.

5

I am having this issue, but I cannot figure out where my path is wrong…

From the terminal, the following works:

source /srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/bin/activate
hass --open-ui

My file [email protected]:

[Unit]
Description=Home Assistant
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=hass
ExecStartPre=source /srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/bin/activate
ExecStart= /srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/bin/hass -c “/hass/.homeassistant”

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

And I get the error:

[email protected] - Home Assistant
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2016-12-26 19:44:57 UTC; 7s ago
Process: 12364 ExecStart=/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/bin/hass -c /hass/.homeassistant (code=exited, status=217/USER)
Main PID: 12364 (code=exited, status=217/USER)

Dec 26 19:44:57 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Home Assistant.
Dec 26 19:44:57 raspberrypi systemd[1]: [email protected]: main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER
Dec 26 19:44:57 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Unit [email protected] entered failed state.

6

Try

/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/bin/hass -c "/homeassistant/.homeassistant

It’s a pain there’s 2 standard on how the user were named

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I get:

● [email protected] - Home Assistant
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2016-12-27 10:47:53 UTC; 4s ago
Process: 21128 ExecStart=/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/bin/hass -c /homeassistant/.homeassistant (code=exited, status=217/USER)
Main PID: 21128 (code=exited, status=217/USER)

Dec 27 10:47:53 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Home Assistant.
Dec 27 10:47:53 raspberrypi systemd[1]: [email protected]: main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER
Dec 27 10:47:53 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Unit [email protected] entered failed state.

I am unsure when to use pi, hass, and homeassistant user profiles…

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Hass is the application name. Then you’ll either have HomeAssistant user or hass user. That depends on your installation. Which one did you used?

9

I followed the manual installation on https://home-assistant.io/getting-started/installation-raspberry-pi/
So HomeAssistant…

10

Same as mine

[Unit]
Description=Home Assistant
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=homeassistant
ExecStartPre=source /srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/bin/activate
ExecStart= /srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/bin/hass -c “/homeassistant/.homeassistant”
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

You got the user name wrong

11

Ok I now have exactly as your file (called [email protected]), I then:

pi@raspberrypi:/etc/systemd/system $ sudo systemctl --system daemon-reload
pi@raspberrypi:/etc/systemd/system $ sudo systemctl enable home-assistant@pi
pi@raspberrypi:/etc/systemd/system $ sudo systemctl start home-assistant@pi
pi@raspberrypi:/etc/systemd/system $ journalctl -f -u home-assistant@pi
No journal files were found.

I also tried ‘sudo systemctl enable [email protected]’ etc but still got ‘No journal files were found’.
Perhaps I am best to give up and go for the all in one installer at this point…?

12

I also just discovered Hassbian, I will try that

13

for some reason, i dont get the journal as well but HA is running fine. But you can always check the status using

sudo systemctl status home-assistant@homeassistant
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In etc/systemd/system I have files [email protected] and [email protected], but NOT [email protected], where the @pi is the one I edited above… I get:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl status home-assistant@homeassistant

● [email protected]
Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl status home-assistant@pi
● [email protected] - Home Assistant
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2016-12-27 22:54:34 UTC; 7h ago
Process: 2996 ExecStart=/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/bin/hass -c /homeassistant/.homeassistant (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 2996 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Dec 27 22:54:33 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Home Assistant.
Dec 27 22:54:34 raspberrypi hass[2996]: Fatal Error: Specified configuration directory does not exist /homeassistant/…istant
Dec 27 22:54:34 raspberrypi systemd[1]: [email protected]: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 27 22:54:34 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Unit [email protected] entered failed state.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

I wonder if I should be logged in as user homeassistant for this to work, but I do not know the password for this user (I get ‘Permissions denied’), and it is not the one I would have set had I been prompted to…

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i think you should start again. you got all the name confused. In the first step in the autostart manual, you should put the [your user] as homeassistant if you install HA using the manual method.

$ su -c 'cat <> /etc/systemd/system/home-assistant@[your user].service

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Will do, thanks again for your help rave, has been a learning curve…!

17

Hi!

So I have the service “working”. I can start, stop and view status. It says running and shows a log when I view status.

How ever, I can not do
systemctl enable homeassistant
get response that there is no such service.

whilst
service homeassistant start
or
service homeassistant stop
works just fine.

What to do?

Thanks!