Updating Home Assistant after a year - how to proceed best?

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So yes, after almost a year of happily using HA on a raspy, installed via a Docker image, i realized that the plugins/integrations regularly tell me to be updated, but the HA itself has not suggested that, therefore, I’ve been using the same old 2021.4.6 ever since.

So, I proceeded to reinstall the latest docker image after backing up the entire configuration folder.

Result: Does not start. I don’t get any meaningfull error in the .log file.

Therefore my question, what are my options here?

  • Should I install one update after the next and how do I find all the docker images?
  • Should I make a clean install? How would I import the configurations after that?

If there are some best practices for such a case, please let me know - thank you!

mpschr

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Oh man, i would definitely go month by month :slight_smile: you would at least have something running to some extent

Here are the images: Docker Hub

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Ok, thanks for the pointer!

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Yes this has worked. Running 2022.2.8 without problems.

I’ve installed each last updated of the month, checked if it works and restarted the process. Fun times.

#!/bin/bash

docker stop homeassistant
docker rm homeassistant
docker run -d --name homeassistant --restart=unless-stopped --privileged -v /home/michi/Documents/homeassistant:/config --network=host \
  ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:2022.2.8  ## replace this tag...
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Any major issues you faced through this process?

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I had to re-install the hue integration. At some point HACS told me it wants to update. That’s about it.

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