Home Assistant

Home Assistant (home-assistant.io)

Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.

installed on Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 4GB with Debian 11 64bit

connections

installation

While I would first recommend installation via Linux - Home Assistant , I'm also trying out the containered version for it's flexibility and portability

compose.yml

version: '3'
services:
  homeassistant:
    container_name: homeassistant
    image: "ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable"
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    restart: unless-stopped
    privileged: true
    network_mode: host

plugins

  1. ESPHome
  2. Grafana
  3. InfluxDB
  4. motionEye
  5. Node-RED
  6. Rhasspy Assistant
  7. Samba Backup
  8. Samba Share
  9. VSCode
  10. HACS

Edit - I end up going with Hass.io install instead, but leaving the Supervised notes here for reference

troubleshooting

Warning

I'm running the home-assistant/supervised installation because I want to utilize my Pi4 for multiple apps.

I encountered a boot loop error from one of the Home Assistant services, effectively freezing any other service running on my Pi4

... entered blocking state
... entered forwarding state
... entered disabled state

I don't update my Home Assistant very often so I thought why not reinstall it. The reinstall brought my Home Assistant back to life 😅.

POE+ Hat

the fan gave off a nasty whine, and I knew I could remedy it by tweaking the temp thresholds. But "Home Assistant OS" doesn't have a simple /boot/config.txt path. So I took out the SD card and popped it into my Windows 10 Machine

There was a file right in the root called config.txt and I put these lines right at the bottom

# PoE+ FAN TEMPERATURE CONTROL  
dtoverlay=rpi-poe-plus  
dtparam=poe_fan_temp0=45000,dtparam=poe_fan_temp0_hyst=3000  
dtparam=poe_fan_temp1=50000,dtparam=poe_fan_temp1_hyst=3000  
dtparam=poe_fan_temp2=62000,dtparam=poe_fan_temp2_hyst=4000  
dtparam=poe_fan_temp3=70000,dtparam=poe_fan_temp3_hyst=5000_

finally moving to Hassio.os

I got a warning that looked this this

Unsupported system - CGroup version

System is unsupported because the wrong version of Docker CGroup is in use. Use the link to learn the correct version and how to fix this.

after a lot of effort went into fixing and updating that I've finally got a dedicated Raspberry Pi 4b 4gb to serve as my baked in "hassio.os"

Press Start on Plugin does nothing

I migrated my Home Assistant config onto a new machine, when I viewed my plugins I saw everything was there, yet when I hit the start button, it would spin for a bit and then... nothing.

All I had to do was restart my whole Home Assistant

system monitor

# Example configuration.yaml entry with all entry types (delete/comment out as necessary)
sensor:
  - platform: systemmonitor
    resources:
      - type: disk_use_percent
        arg: /
      - type: memory_use_percent
      - type: processor_use
      - type: processor_temperature
      - type: last_boot

Xamoi Temp / Humidity Sensor

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