Great video ! Followed the excellent instructions to the letter, and I now have HA ( running previous install via a Snapshot ) on a Raspberry Pi 4 and in the Argon One M.2 case ! ! Brilliant !! Many thanks.
I moved from 32 Bit SD Card to 64bit SSD a couple of days. I use a JSAUX USB 3.0 to SATA Adapter. Just 10€ on Amazon. ASM1153 Chipset, thats the Most Important Part! Also i use mariadb for my History. There is a easy Tutorial from smart Home junky. Keep Up your amazing Work. I Like your Videos!!!
Excellant tutorial, thank you - was running on an SD card on a pi3 B+, however this kept crashing - swapped to a pi4 B 8Gb and a 120GB SSD and it is so much better. Your tutarial made this transition very very easy, thanks again
Great tutorial, easy to follow, and the only hiccups I ran into were of my own making, not in your flawless instructions. Your work here is much appreciated!
Thanks for the video. This helped me migrate today. The troubleshooting tips in the second half of the video were especially useful! You helped solve my conbee issue before it even happened (yes it did end up having interference from the SSD connection)
Another awesome video! Like most people running home assistant OS for about year, I'm looking for a new solution. For the experts on the forums and discord, all roads lead to home assistant container. Amazingly, there is not a good up-to-date video of how to set this up. A tutorial on this would be very beneficial to the community
So I tried doing this with Berryboot on a Pi 3B initially and it didn't work because the home assistant image isn't squashfs format. I then followed the method in your video which also didn't work. Turns out the Pi Imager USB Boot deal only works for the Pi 4. So if anyone attempts this on a Pi 3b you'll need to use the bootcode.bin file on an SD card to boot to the ssd. Beyond that difference though the method worked great. Thanks for the great video!
Thanks for this video Mark, very helpful. I did have the problem you describe with the Conbee II which I put on the end of a cable. It did however also impact the reliability of the Pi Bluetooth meaning my Flic buttons stopped working. My solution was to put the SSD on the end of the cable and move it away from the Pi. That works a treat. Just posting this as others may find it useful.
@@MarkWattTech I really like the Flic buttons and they work great for me using the flicd add-on and you don't even need the Flic bridge - hooray. The only down side is that I use hass.io which seems to have very poor support for BT 5.x USB dongles (not found one that works yet) which leaves me with the Pi built in BT which does suffer a little with range. I could probably go down the line of a supervised installation on Raspian, but I really like the simplicity of a Hass.io build and it has not caused me enough grief to try an alternative yet :)
Incredibly easy to follow and worked like a charm (other than my patience) swapping to a Star Tech Cable was key, currently sat now while HA starts so all is well so far. Thanking you and now my "oh I'll do it when i migrate to an SSD excuse" is over.
Dude, I was really looking for an instructionvideo to move my existing home assistance instance to my SSD! It worked (almost) instantly :) I really like the method to update the RPI eeprom with the SD-card using the RPI imager. Thanks and keep up the good work!
i prefer one big file with chapters. I actually used this to switch from a windows computer version to a raspberry pi 4. It was very helpful and i think you do an awesome job at making these videos for us to follow.
Just want to comment and say thanks for a great video! I followed the instructions for a fresh install and got everything working with the following setup on the 64-bit OS version(hassos_rpi4-64-5.13.img): [ RPi4-4GB, Samsung EVO-870(500GB), StarTech 3.1 SATA-adapter (USB2-port), 4 Amp USB-C phone charger, Conbee II with 1m ext cable (USB3-port and with Zigbee Home Automation integration, not deConz)] What I did differently from the video was that I first of all put Raspberry OS on a SD-card and via the desktop terminal did 'sudo apt update' and 'sudo apt full-upgrade'. After that I followed the video instructions with only one issue in that I had to remove the Conbee stick for the first boot/installation to proceed to the logon screen.
Matt, the "Misc utility images" only shows "Raspberry Pi 4 EEPROM boot recovery"... No trace of "Bootloader". My imager version is 1.2 (just downloaded). Cheers ✌
Great video, thanks. Only with your customized software I am in a different time zone apparently. I can't change it in HA or via the terminal with the "raspi-config" command. Do you have any suggestions? Now my Node-Red flows are working 2 hours later :(
Hey Mark, nice video. Did you had a chance to try install HA on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4? Lite or eMMC versions, or even better using an ssd/nvme on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 IO Board CM4IO?
Unfortunately it doesn’t work. I did it exactly the described way, except loading the HA image direct from internetpräsenz. How long will the first usb tool take to be loaded into the pi ? It still blinks fast after 2h ?
Awesome timing! Currently considering this option after running an SD for the last year and wondering how long of got before it gives up! I’ve been eyeing up the Argon One case with M.2 expansion board. Any thoughts?
I really like the Argon One :D It's also on my list of ToDo videos. Starting with an SD card is great, but its just so much more snappier with an SSD or m.2. Also less worry if there's a power cut or you have something inefficiently writing to your database all day long haha.
@@MarkWattTech I recently installed Home assistant in an Argon One case with a M.2 SATA drive using M. Watt's videos. It's a great setup. To be able to install on the M.2, since I didn't have a M.2 to USB adapter, I used the Argon One M.2 board with the USB to USB link adapter (that came with the Argon One) and a USB "extension" to plug it in my PC. Kind of a janky setup but it worked. And a small tip, If you setup the Pi to boot on SD if SSD fails, if ever the SSD fails just install a backup SD card using a USB adapter, remove the USB to USB M.2 adapter and you'll be up and running in minutes till you can fix the SSD.
Déjà vu......j/k..Great video! When I set up HA on my Pi4 I couldn’t get my generic/cheap ssd to boot with Home Assistant no matter what I did. Maybe one day when I’ll get a better SSD and try agin. If I do I’ll definitely reference this video. Until then I’m gearing up to try the (datactl move) command. I believe this will allow the read and write files to move to a more stable USB device (ssd) while the read only files remain on the SD. It seems like most people should have been doing this for years now, but just didn’t. We never needed to wait for SSD boot on the pi, we all could have booted on the SD but then wrote the SD corrupting data on any cheep SSD thumb drive all along. 🤦🏻♂️
Thanks Chris. What SSD are you using? Would be interesting to see if its listed in the not supported devices. I do plan on doing a datactl version of the SSD install. Its another one in my list 😆.
@@MarkWattTech I don’t remember the brand it was a cheep one given to me by a good friend I’ve since returned it. I also tried a white label ssd usb stick some people supposedly had success with because it was affordable. Nope. It has a handler that doesn’t work well with the pi. I spent forever trying to get it to boot.
My Raspberry PI imager (and it is an official Raspberry PI imager packaged with my distribution) doesn't have these options, so where are the files to download and point to using the imager?
If i plug my Pi into a monitor to do the updatei i would get a green screen when it was successful and i now that the upde finish? and then unplug the pi and remove the sd card and then connect Raspberry Pi 4 with the ssd
Man I was just today looking at doing this but on my Pi 3b. I feel like Berryboot should be able to accomplish the same thing right? My version of home assistant is so old that there is no backup option. After these years though it's probably best to just start fresh with the latest system.
Hey :) I think BerryBoot does offer the same functionality for flashing yes. Pi3b doesn’t have the eeprom step. And I would deffo recommend a clean install. I had a few weird issues in my HA previously where legacy stuff was still referenced or trying to run.
your setup was easy to follow! do you have any idea how to resolve the nortek gocontrol zigbee/zwave controller? i cant get them working after switching to ssd. the USB extension doesnt seems to work for me, i had a 3ft extension and it still doesnt work
Brilliant explanation! One remark though - I have a UniFi controller, this will not be added in the snapshot. I don't know why, but it simply doesn't ;) So I have to reinstall that bit, but with the new speed, this would only take a second ;)
I tried to use the popular Vansuny 120Gb SSD, but this SSD uses a 4096 physical sector size which is not supported by the Raspberry bootloader. It seems that the bootloader only supports 512 and 1024 sector size USB drives.
Really nice video with great links in the description. Ordered 2 Kingston SSD's from Amazon. A question though, I have a rpi4b with 4 gb of ram, when moving from so card to SSD should I consider 64 bit version?
Thank you for taking the time to leave feedback. I would recommend moving to the 64bit and it’s now also the version the HA devz recommend. You will also gain access to a few 64bit specific integrations :)
Valuegist usb 3.0 adaptor from Amz able to image drive but when booting HA a load of dependancies don't load and then it crashes. Am replacing it with the startech one tomorrow. SSD is an old samsung Evo 840 120gb
thank you for this video and all your videos. I will be trying this later in week. Quick question can you migrate a vm image to a raspi successfully or is it better to start over?
Hey Rob. Thanks! :) You can create a backup in HA, and then pull that backup straight into your build on the Pi (if thats what you mean). I do this in the opposite direction (Pi to a VM) in my Proxmox video.
You link pinned version of Hassos - not a good practice. It is fine at time of recording, but later on, if you had newer version on SD when making backup and now try to recover into 5.12, things may not work.
Great video. Easy to follow so I'm now up and running on SSD. I am however now having issues with Bluetooth and reduced functionality. Any ideas on a way to solve this? Only thing I can think of is if I use a separate dongle on a long usb rather than the in-built. Using a Pi 4 Model B with 4GB Ram and the same SSD/Adapter you recommended.
@@canadianwebguy I moved my SSD further away using an extension usb cable. This worked until recently when I did a core update and restarted my pi. Now I have issues connecting to 1 device again. Although better than getting none of my devices like before. When I tried looking into swapping to a Bluetooth dongle on a lead I couldn't find how to change the data path in home assistant from the in-built Bluetooth.
Success, my PI4's are already ready for SSD boot. I guess its part of the system updates... All I had to do was build the hassio on the SSD, plug it in without an SDCard inserted and it burst into life, restore the backup - and ut us called a backup not a snapshot on mine, and viola!!!
Everything works great until i plug in the SSD to boot the RPi4 to load Home Assistant. I get the green light for a couple of blinks on the Pi then nothing more. I using a Kingston 240gb, Startech cable, MicroCenter power cable with 5v 3a. Does this sound like i have a power supply issue or am i missing something?
Heya. If you check out some of my newer Pi setup videos (5 Pi upgrades for Home Assistant) I show some of my favourite accessories and setups for the pi. I think theres also links in that video 👍🏻 ruclips.net/video/p5HNtVgFMSs/видео.html
Hi Mark, great tutorial, thank you. Quick question: is it possible to install Home Assistant on an old laptop hard drive that isn't SSD doing this same process?
Hey Susan. Absolutely :) It's a great way to make use of an old laptop too. I would opt for an SSD purely for speed, power consumption and also noise. But if that's not an option then using a standard HDD is perfectly fine and also works well.
@@MarkWattTech Hi Mark. I gave it a try yesterday and everything seemed to work fine... until I started getting errors. The dashboards seem to be fine but when I wanted to go to File Editor, Supervisor, Developer Tools, etc I get "Error while loading page logs. Go Back." I can't even access the Logs in Configuration. I used a Snapshot from my previous SD install. Should I just start over?
How do I know when the firmware update is complete, for the prepare usb boot step? Green light has been fast blinking for half an hour. Screen is solid green on the Pi, no text.
It’s fairly instant :) you should be good to unplug and go. I just say leave it a while in the video to make sure people aren’t too hasty. If you had a monitor plugged in, the screen actually turns green to show its successful :)
I think it depends on what you plan on running. With the Pi4 / your HA install. You should ideally use a fan and heatsink as they can get really hot. I noticed mine would get very hot when doing anything with cameras and imaging. I have used a lot of LABIST cases and GeekPi cases on my Pi’s. They have nice accessible enclosures and usually come in a kit with heatsinks and fans etc. I really like the ICE Tower fans because I personally really like the look. My Pi never really peaks over 36° no matter what I’m doing. And the fan is very quiet. Theres not a lot of enclosures for the Full ICE Tower though unless you buy or 3D print a set one. More pricey than some of the other cooling methods though and is bulky.
@@MarkWattTech Nice one thanks! Not planning on using cameras at the moment. Mainly using smarthings, aqara, IKEA sensors, buttons and bulbs with ST hub and Amazon echo. Looking to move into HA. Cheers
@@TheDanhib I would start with something neat and tidy with a fan (Labists case maybe). The beauty of it is you can always just hot swap and change up, as and when you need to :)
How do you know that the boot loader is done on the pi? I know you said wait about 10 mins. It’s been about 10mins and the green light is still flashing. Is this normal?
Hey. Usually it is pretty quick. I just said 10mins to be sure. If you happen to have a micro usb cable to attach your Pi to a monitor it should have a green screen. This will let you know it was successful.
@@michaeleckman3016 May I know how long have you been waiting before pulling the plug? I'm having the same thing which it's been more than 10min now, and the green LED is still blinking.
@@yeohkokcheow3781 I pulled the plug around 15mins. It was still blinking. There was no adverse effect. I think the process really only takes a couple minutes, but Mark just wanted to build in a buffer just in case.
Hi Mark, I followed your guide today and switched from sd to SSD. It’s up and running now but all my ad ons such as Google drive backup, Grafana, node-RED have all stopped and clicking on “start” is doing nothing. I’m not sure how to correct this. I’ve been trying to remove Google drive backup and reinstall but not having any luck. I’m wondering what I’ve done wrong. Have you had anyone saying this before? Cheers. 😊
@@MarkWattTech thanks for the response. I’m not seeing anything in the logs when searching. I was considering removing hacs and reinstalling, is that a good or bad idea would you say?
Mark thanks for a great video. I have my HA on SSD drive from SD Card. Can you tell me I would like to try to create another SSD drive with Home Assistant with a fresh install on SSD drive. If I remove SSD drive and connect my Old SSD drive back into the PI would I pick up any problems with my OLD HA. Basically, having two on separate SSD drives. ( Obviously not running at the same time ) Hope this makes sense.
Do you mean can you switch between different HA installs on different SSDs with the same PI? (If that is what you mean - both instances are separate so they wont interact or cause issues with each other).
@@MarkWattTech Just Ham pie I have not found many Vid with how to flash hampi to the SSD I think your Vid sent me in the right direction though thinking i need a USB male to male so I can flash HamPi from my computer straight to the 3.0 bottom jack on the Argon m2.
Hello Mark, here an enthousiastic follower.... I tried to install my Raspberry 4 4gb, with a SATA SSD 120GB WD Green. I have the problem when i connect the SSD to a USB 3 port, nothing works, when i do it to the USB 2 port, it works. What do i do wrong? I follow your course exactly..... Thanks in advance. Frank
what adapter are you using? :) I have had this issue when using some sata to usb3 adapters. It's a Pi specific issue with the adapter chipsets (if this is the issue you are having).
I've just come back to my Pi, the green LED was on while I had my dinner, so a bit longer than 10mins. I am a little unsure where and when to plug the SSD in as you say 'machine' and there is a caption on screen that refers to 'PC' can you spell it out please?
Hey, thanks for the video. I little off-topic question since I had massive issues with this: I had an SSD for some month now on my RPi 4 with HA and wanted to integrate my ConBee ll stick within HA. Since you also got the deConz integration and I assume it's working, this seems achievable somehow. My issue is, that the stick combined with a SSD (using a Kingston A400 SSD with an Inatreck Case) won't work. Well, it kinda does work because I can set up the ZHA or deConz integration without errors. But when I scan/go for pairing mode in ZigBee I am not able to detect any ZigBee devices. As soon as I went back from my SSD to an SD (installed today on an SD and restored the current snapshot) my ZigBee stick finds the device within 1-5 seconds. So I am stuck between not using the SSD again or not having ZigBee working, which is both awful. Also, currently in discussion within the HA Forum if you want to jump in community.home-assistant.io/t/list-of-working-zigbee-bulbs-for-deconz-zha-without-special-manufacture-gateways/296459/16
@@MarkWattTech I was using the one I had in spare to test if i could get the conbee working. But it didn’t work with the extension. However it is only 20 cm long. This is currently the only one I had in spare. What is our recommended length for the extension/the one you’re using?
I have read that there is an issue with USB3 on the Pi4 affecting radio devices. If this is indeed the case then try with a SHIELDED extension cable, and if they are USB2 devices have it plugged into a USB2 port on the Pi. I hope this helps.
Heya. I didn't mention it in this video. But it only takes a couple of seconds. So you should be good to unplug and carry on. If you where using a screen it would turn green to show you it completed the update.
It actually updates super quick. I just say 10mins to make sure people left it long enough :) it wont stop blinking. Just unplug and good to go. If you had it plugged into an external monitor you would get a helpful green screen to let you know it was successful :)
Oh really? I just tried it and it starts the file download immediately. It is the git hub one yes. github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases And then just choose your preferred install.
I am on the step of "Ready our pi for USB booting." Currently, i've let my pi run for over a half an hour and I still have the green flashing activity light. Did I do something wrong or is it safe to unplug?
@@MarkWattTech Been working through another issue: I can't get it to boot off of an SSD. I thought it was an issue with the RPi but just got it working using the same steps but installing it on an SD card. When trying it through an SSD, it doesn't work. I am using a Samsung 860 Evo (which i have seen works) and a cord with the ASM1153 chipset. Any ideas??
Hi Mark, great video as always. Unfortunately I'm having an issue. After plugging in my my SSD and powering up my Pi, I can see on my routers interface that 'homeassistant' is showing up straight away, but I can't connect to it (connection timed out) trying both the IP:8123 and homeassistant.local:8123. After around 10-15 minutes the homeassistant disappears from my routers interface as if it's not longer connected. Using a Samsung 840 EVO and StarTech SATA adapter. Any suggestions?
@@MarkWattTech Unfortunately not, had to get it up and running using SD card again before my SO got home, can't afford losing any more WAF-points 😅 Will comment here if I figure something out on a later point.
@@MarkWattTech I suppose my issue from 4 months back hasnt kept you up at night, but wanted to let you know that with a new SSD (Samsung Evo 870) it works flawlessly. Took me a while, but thanks for the great video!
When I click on Misc utility images the only options I get are 1) Back or 2) Raspberry Pi 4 EPROM boot recovery not as you show Bootloader, if you follow this option it goes onto flashing the SD card?
@@davelucas5301 can you try and update to the latest one? I think in the video I used v1.5 The Pi imager has changed in the last couple of updates. Off topic but the Pi imager now lets you auto create the .ssh and wpa_supplicant files which is awesome 🙌🏻😁
I've tried to get HA to boot from 2 different SSDs and different configs. In all cases, it boots fine from the SSD if I have just plain Raspberry Pi on the SSD, so I'm pretty confident I did all the steps correctly. But if I have Home Assistant, it never boots and nothing ever comes up on the display. The hardware I've tried: 1) Samsung V-NAND SSD 970 EVOPlus NVME m.2. This is on James Chambers list of SSDs that should work. Tried both with an external case + USB cable, as well as directly on a USB dongle 2) Western Digital Passport + USB cable :(
Hey Gary. Are you able to attach an external monitor to the Pi while it tries to do the HA boot (to check for any errors). A couple of other things: - Are you using a 64bit HA image? - Are you using a recommended Power supply? - Sounds counter productive, but have you tried another USB port (try a usb2 port) Cheers, Mark
@@MarkWattTech Thanks for the reply. I'm using 32-bit HA image (on 32-bit Pi). Does SSD work better on 64-bit? I've got an external monitor attached but nothing is displayed at all when I try to boot from the SSD -- no text, no errors, nothing. I'm using the authentic Pi power supply as well. And I've tried the SSD using all 4 of the USB ports with no luck.
@@MarkWattTech I'm unsure what the issue is - When I plug my SSD in and try and boot Home Assistant, I get nothing. Swap it back to the SD and it works perfectly.
@@MarkWattTech Hey, I am using the same sata cable and SSD as you - to make sure it wasn't an issue, on a pi4. Will have one last go at it today, to see if I can get it working.
@@MarkWattTech Thanks for answering I guess it was the adapter, as it is one in the "blacklist" (Sabrent 3.0). I have ordered an adapter that is confirmed to be working, and I will try again :)
Just went through this installation to move to an ssd. Everything ok, not even corrupt databases, except that the deconz integration stopped working altogether..
Scratch that, the Plex integration stopped working. But that one is not that important. FYI, I installed onto a SanDisk Extreme PRO Solid State USB Flash Drive
Hey thanks for the updates. How's it running now? If your using the Conbee II with an SSD I would 100% recommend you use an extension cable to give the Conbee some distance. Cheers.
Hi Mark, I have been able to install and run my HomeAssistant on an SSD with a rasp Pi4 but I am unable to run the Pi on WiFi, any ideas on how to fix?
@@MAMDAVEM Open HA - Choose Supervisor - System (top of page) - You should then see IP address. Press the "change" button - You should then see WLAN0. Press this, then WiFi and setup your connection :) If your still stuck, checkout my FB group and I can try help with screenshots etc.
As long as you dont wipe your SD card that has HA on (use a different one for the SD card step) you could just put your card back in and it would work normally. If thats what you mean?
Thx a lot. I followed your excellent guide to move from SD to SSD. (Grabbed the chance to upgrade from Pi3b+ to Pi4 8GB) I got stuck at the boot part of HA and uploading my back up file. I waited for approxamitly 15 to 20 minutes to let it install my back up. Butt nothing happened. So rebooted and the welcome screen reappeared. So I logged in with my old credentials to a new HA set up. From there on I uploaded my back up file again and let it install. Waited again for 15 minutes. Recieve a message on my phone that Home Assistant had successfully restarted, an handy blue print I had installed (community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-restart-notification/256409/9) Yet than again, I could not log in. Then I remembered I gave my old Pi an fixed IP adress based on the Mac adress in my router (primarily for duck.dns). I updated the Mac adress in the router, and rebooted everything. Waited for the message that HA had successfully restarted and there it was. It is working just fine, even the duck.dns log in worked like before. So thank you for your excellent guide.
Thanks for the video. I just have successfully moved to SSD with RPi4 today following your video. Good content and keep it up.
Thank you! Glad it helped. Plenty more to come :D
Brilliant tutorial. I have now succesfully migrated from 64GB SD to 500 GB Samsung SSD. Than you.
Great video !
Followed the excellent instructions to the letter, and I now have HA ( running previous install via a Snapshot ) on a Raspberry Pi 4 and in the Argon One M.2 case ! !
Brilliant !! Many thanks.
Thanks Jon! Glad to have helped :)
I moved from 32 Bit SD Card to 64bit SSD a couple of days. I use a JSAUX USB 3.0 to SATA Adapter. Just 10€ on Amazon. ASM1153 Chipset, thats the Most Important Part!
Also i use mariadb for my History. There is a easy Tutorial from smart Home junky.
Keep Up your amazing Work. I Like your Videos!!!
Excellant tutorial, thank you - was running on an SD card on a pi3 B+, however this kept crashing - swapped to a pi4 B 8Gb and a 120GB SSD and it is so much better. Your tutarial made this transition very very easy, thanks again
OMG it took me 2 days to find the fix to the conbee connection issue. Thank you so much.
Thankyou for the video. Upgrade to SSD went well. I am running a Unitek S1203ABK NVMe enclosure.
Fascinating professional and thorough articles and explanations to hear you
I look forward to your every lecture
Thank you for the feedback Beni 😁
Another great easy to follow video, great stuff thanks for sharing it with the community!
Thank you Bryn :) plenty more to come.
Great tutorial, easy to follow, and the only hiccups I ran into were of my own making, not in your flawless instructions. Your work here is much appreciated!
Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it :)
Thanks for the video. This helped me migrate today.
The troubleshooting tips in the second half of the video were especially useful! You helped solve my conbee issue before it even happened (yes it did end up having interference from the SSD connection)
Glad it helped! :)
Another awesome video! Like most people running home assistant OS for about year, I'm looking for a new solution. For the experts on the forums and discord, all roads lead to home assistant container. Amazingly, there is not a good up-to-date video of how to set this up. A tutorial on this would be very beneficial to the community
Thanks Pasha! It's on my todo list :) I have a few other HA installs that I also want to cover. Cheers.
Mark! Thanks for this made my migration really simple.
Hey! Glad it was helpful :)
So I tried doing this with Berryboot on a Pi 3B initially and it didn't work because the home assistant image isn't squashfs format. I then followed the method in your video which also didn't work. Turns out the Pi Imager USB Boot deal only works for the Pi 4. So if anyone attempts this on a Pi 3b you'll need to use the bootcode.bin file on an SD card to boot to the ssd. Beyond that difference though the method worked great. Thanks for the great video!
Great video, Mark! Transition from SDCard to SSD was smooth and easy!
Thanks for this video Mark, very helpful. I did have the problem you describe with the Conbee II which I put on the end of a cable. It did however also impact the reliability of the Pi Bluetooth meaning my Flic buttons stopped working. My solution was to put the SSD on the end of the cable and move it away from the Pi. That works a treat. Just posting this as others may find it useful.
Nice one Colin. Thank you for sharing :)
How do you find the Flic buttons with HA? I've not yet tried them :)
@@MarkWattTech I really like the Flic buttons and they work great for me using the flicd add-on and you don't even need the Flic bridge - hooray. The only down side is that I use hass.io which seems to have very poor support for BT 5.x USB dongles (not found one that works yet) which leaves me with the Pi built in BT which does suffer a little with range. I could probably go down the line of a supervised installation on Raspian, but I really like the simplicity of a Hass.io build and it has not caused me enough grief to try an alternative yet :)
Incredibly easy to follow and worked like a charm (other than my patience) swapping to a Star Tech Cable was key, currently sat now while HA starts so all is well so far. Thanking you and now my "oh I'll do it when i migrate to an SSD excuse" is over.
Thanks for sharing 😁. Glad you found it helpful!
Dude, I was really looking for an instructionvideo to move my existing home assistance instance to my SSD! It worked (almost) instantly :) I really like the method to update the RPI eeprom with the SD-card using the RPI imager. Thanks and keep up the good work!
Thanks for the feedback 😎
Bonjour de la France . Merci. pour ta vidéo. Marche impeccable.
i prefer one big file with chapters. I actually used this to switch from a windows computer version to a raspberry pi 4. It was very helpful and i think you do an awesome job at making these videos for us to follow.
Thanks for the feedback dude 👍🏻😁. Glad it has been helpful for other projects.
Worked like a charm! Thanks for the video. I appreciate you.
Thanks for the feedback mate :)
Excellent tutorial! Thanks mate!
No worries 😁
Thank you, made my upgrade as simple as possible!
Glad it helped!
Just want to comment and say thanks for a great video! I followed the instructions for a fresh install and got everything working with the following setup on the 64-bit OS version(hassos_rpi4-64-5.13.img):
[ RPi4-4GB, Samsung EVO-870(500GB), StarTech 3.1 SATA-adapter (USB2-port), 4 Amp USB-C phone charger, Conbee II with 1m ext cable (USB3-port and with Zigbee Home Automation integration, not deConz)]
What I did differently from the video was that I first of all put Raspberry OS on a SD-card and via the desktop terminal did 'sudo apt update' and 'sudo apt full-upgrade'. After that I followed the video instructions with only one issue in that I had to remove the Conbee stick for the first boot/installation to proceed to the logon screen.
Thanks for taking the time to give feedback and your process Erik :)
Matt, the "Misc utility images" only shows "Raspberry Pi 4 EEPROM boot recovery"... No trace of "Bootloader". My imager version is 1.2 (just downloaded).
Cheers ✌
Helloooo Mark, Didn't know you had your own RUclips Channel :)
Welcomingzz 😁
Great video, thanks. Only with your customized software I am in a different time zone apparently. I can't change it in HA or via the terminal with the "raspi-config" command. Do you have any suggestions? Now my Node-Red flows are working 2 hours later :(
Is it possible to make a image of the old sdcard and then copy it to the new SSD?
Hey Håkan. You can do this yes. Im not sure if the storage automatically expands if you do it this way though.
Hey Mark, nice video. Did you had a chance to try install HA on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4? Lite or eMMC versions, or even better using an ssd/nvme on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 IO Board CM4IO?
Franky, if you have a solid, fast SD card, the difference on a Rpi4 will be negligible. It's definitely not a night and day difference.
Unfortunately it doesn’t work. I did it exactly the described way, except loading the HA image direct from internetpräsenz.
How long will the first usb tool take to be loaded into the pi ? It still blinks fast after 2h ?
Awesome timing! Currently considering this option after running an SD for the last year and wondering how long of got before it gives up! I’ve been eyeing up the Argon One case with M.2 expansion board. Any thoughts?
I really like the Argon One :D
It's also on my list of ToDo videos. Starting with an SD card is great, but its just so much more snappier with an SSD or m.2. Also less worry if there's a power cut or you have something inefficiently writing to your database all day long haha.
@@MarkWattTech I recently installed Home assistant in an Argon One case with a M.2 SATA drive using M. Watt's videos. It's a great setup.
To be able to install on the M.2, since I didn't have a M.2 to USB adapter, I used the Argon One M.2 board with the USB to USB link adapter (that came with the Argon One) and a USB "extension" to plug it in my PC. Kind of a janky setup but it worked.
And a small tip, If you setup the Pi to boot on SD if SSD fails, if ever the SSD fails just install a backup SD card using a USB adapter, remove the USB to USB M.2 adapter and you'll be up and running in minutes till you can fix the SSD.
Didn't work for me. Turned out to be a power problem, not enough angry pixies.
Used a powered USB3 hub and it's kicking along nicely now. 👍
Déjà vu......j/k..Great video!
When I set up HA on my Pi4 I couldn’t get my generic/cheap ssd to boot with Home Assistant no matter what I did. Maybe one day when I’ll get a better SSD and try agin. If I do I’ll definitely reference this video. Until then I’m gearing up to try the (datactl move) command. I believe this will allow the read and write files to move to a more stable USB device (ssd) while the read only files remain on the SD. It seems like most people should have been doing this for years now, but just didn’t. We never needed to wait for SSD boot on the pi, we all could have booted on the SD but then wrote the SD corrupting data on any cheep SSD thumb drive all along. 🤦🏻♂️
Thanks Chris. What SSD are you using? Would be interesting to see if its listed in the not supported devices. I do plan on doing a datactl version of the SSD install. Its another one in my list 😆.
@@MarkWattTech I don’t remember the brand it was a cheep one given to me by a good friend I’ve since returned it. I also tried a white label ssd usb stick some people supposedly had success with because it was affordable. Nope. It has a handler that doesn’t work well with the pi. I spent forever trying to get it to boot.
My Raspberry PI imager (and it is an official Raspberry PI imager packaged with my distribution) doesn't have these options, so where are the files to download and point to using the imager?
I wish you had a split screen showing the pi and what and how you plug in the ssd.
If i plug my Pi into a monitor to do the updatei i would get a green screen when it was successful
and i now that the upde finish?
and then unplug the pi and remove the sd card
and then connect Raspberry Pi 4 with the ssd
Yeah if you use a monitor you will get a green screen to let you know it was successful :)
Man I was just today looking at doing this but on my Pi 3b. I feel like Berryboot should be able to accomplish the same thing right? My version of home assistant is so old that there is no backup option. After these years though it's probably best to just start fresh with the latest system.
Hey :) I think BerryBoot does offer the same functionality for flashing yes. Pi3b doesn’t have the eeprom step.
And I would deffo recommend a clean install. I had a few weird issues in my HA previously where legacy stuff was still referenced or trying to run.
your setup was easy to follow! do you have any idea how to resolve the nortek gocontrol zigbee/zwave controller? i cant get them working after switching to ssd. the USB extension doesnt seems to work for me, i had a 3ft extension and it still doesnt work
Thank you. simplified
Brilliant explanation! One remark though - I have a UniFi controller, this will not be added in the snapshot. I don't know why, but it simply doesn't ;) So I have to reinstall that bit, but with the new speed, this would only take a second ;)
I tried to use the popular Vansuny 120Gb SSD, but this SSD uses a 4096 physical sector size which is not supported by the Raspberry bootloader. It seems that the bootloader only supports 512 and 1024 sector size USB drives.
Hello sir i have bought evm25 256gb ssd and balena Etcher fails to install home assistant....can you help me
Really nice video with great links in the description. Ordered 2 Kingston SSD's from Amazon.
A question though, I have a rpi4b with 4 gb of ram, when moving from so card to SSD should I consider 64 bit version?
Thank you for taking the time to leave feedback. I would recommend moving to the 64bit and it’s now also the version the HA devz recommend. You will also gain access to a few 64bit specific integrations :)
I found on my Pi4 that I did not need to update the Pi firmware - I just put HA onto the SSD and it booted.
Valuegist usb 3.0 adaptor from Amz able to image drive but when booting HA a load of dependancies don't load and then it crashes. Am replacing it with the startech one tomorrow. SSD is an old samsung Evo 840 120gb
thank you for this video and all your videos. I will be trying this later in week. Quick question can you migrate a vm image to a raspi successfully or is it better to start over?
Hey Rob. Thanks! :)
You can create a backup in HA, and then pull that backup straight into your build on the Pi (if thats what you mean).
I do this in the opposite direction (Pi to a VM) in my Proxmox video.
@@MarkWattTech thank u again
You link pinned version of Hassos - not a good practice. It is fine at time of recording, but later on, if you had newer version on SD when making backup and now try to recover into 5.12, things may not work.
Updated the link to point to releases (so people can grab the latest). Cheers
Hi, just a "stupid" question. Instead of an SSD can I also use an 64gb USB Stick?
I’ve actually never tried booting HA via USB 🤪.
Let me know how it goes.
Great video. Easy to follow so I'm now up and running on SSD. I am however now having issues with Bluetooth and reduced functionality. Any ideas on a way to solve this? Only thing I can think of is if I use a separate dongle on a long usb rather than the in-built. Using a Pi 4 Model B with 4GB Ram and the same SSD/Adapter you recommended.
Thanks for the feedback! I would deffo go with the extension and dongle option. Distancing and having it run externally should help.
I'm running into the same issue. USB 3 interferes with bluetooth and is especially problematic on RPi4s . Did you solve the problem?
@@canadianwebguy I moved my SSD further away using an extension usb cable. This worked until recently when I did a core update and restarted my pi. Now I have issues connecting to 1 device again. Although better than getting none of my devices like before. When I tried looking into swapping to a Bluetooth dongle on a lead I couldn't find how to change the data path in home assistant from the in-built Bluetooth.
@@slickdel82 Thanks that worked!
I was using Etcher to burn the HA image to my M.2 SATA drive and I had to try 3 times for it to actually work.
Success, my PI4's are already ready for SSD boot. I guess its part of the system updates... All I had to do was build the hassio on the SSD, plug it in without an SDCard inserted and it burst into life, restore the backup - and ut us called a backup not a snapshot on mine, and viola!!!
Everything works great until i plug in the SSD to boot the RPi4 to load Home Assistant. I get the green light for a couple of blinks on the Pi then nothing more. I using a Kingston 240gb, Startech cable, MicroCenter power cable with 5v 3a. Does this sound like i have a power supply issue or am i missing something?
I was using the 32 instead of the 64 configuration. Once i used the 64 everything booted right up.
Ssd vs m.2 ssd which one is better?
Hi friend! What SSD and PI4 cage are you using or recomend to have our HA working? thank you!
Heya. If you check out some of my newer Pi setup videos (5 Pi upgrades for Home Assistant) I show some of my favourite accessories and setups for the pi. I think theres also links in that video 👍🏻
ruclips.net/video/p5HNtVgFMSs/видео.html
Can you please explain to next video how to Install home assistant on m.2 nvme
Hey Wasim. It's in my todo list :)
Just a matter of finding time to do it. Cheers
Hi Mark, great tutorial, thank you. Quick question: is it possible to install Home Assistant on an old laptop hard drive that isn't SSD doing this same process?
Hey Susan. Absolutely :)
It's a great way to make use of an old laptop too. I would opt for an SSD purely for speed, power consumption and also noise. But if that's not an option then using a standard HDD is perfectly fine and also works well.
@@MarkWattTech Hi Mark. I gave it a try yesterday and everything seemed to work fine... until I started getting errors. The dashboards seem to be fine but when I wanted to go to File Editor, Supervisor, Developer Tools, etc I get "Error while loading page logs. Go Back." I can't even access the Logs in Configuration. I used a Snapshot from my previous SD install. Should I just start over?
How do I know when the firmware update is complete, for the prepare usb boot step? Green light has been fast blinking for half an hour. Screen is solid green on the Pi, no text.
It’s fairly instant :) you should be good to unplug and go. I just say leave it a while in the video to make sure people aren’t too hasty. If you had a monitor plugged in, the screen actually turns green to show its successful :)
Another great video! Would any case be suitable for a pi 4 just to run home assistant or do you recommend one with a fan/heatsink?
I think it depends on what you plan on running. With the Pi4 / your HA install. You should ideally use a fan and heatsink as they can get really hot. I noticed mine would get very hot when doing anything with cameras and imaging.
I have used a lot of LABIST cases and GeekPi cases on my Pi’s. They have nice accessible enclosures and usually come in a kit with heatsinks and fans etc.
I really like the ICE Tower fans because I personally really like the look. My Pi never really peaks over 36° no matter what I’m doing. And the fan is very quiet. Theres not a lot of enclosures for the Full ICE Tower though unless you buy or 3D print a set one. More pricey than some of the other cooling methods though and is bulky.
@@MarkWattTech Nice one thanks! Not planning on using cameras at the moment. Mainly using smarthings, aqara, IKEA sensors, buttons and bulbs with ST hub and Amazon echo. Looking to move into HA. Cheers
@@TheDanhib I would start with something neat and tidy with a fan (Labists case maybe). The beauty of it is you can always just hot swap and change up, as and when you need to :)
@@MarkWattTech thanks!
About about TRIM support ?
How do you know that the boot loader is done on the pi? I know you said wait about 10 mins. It’s been about 10mins and the green light is still flashing. Is this normal?
Hey. Usually it is pretty quick. I just said 10mins to be sure. If you happen to have a micro usb cable to attach your Pi to a monitor it should have a green screen. This will let you know it was successful.
@@MarkWattTech i got impatient and just pulled the plug and hooked up the SSD and it worked like a champ. Thanks for the great instructional video.
@@michaeleckman3016 Glad it worked for you. Cheers Michael!
@@michaeleckman3016 May I know how long have you been waiting before pulling the plug? I'm having the same thing which it's been more than 10min now, and the green LED is still blinking.
@@yeohkokcheow3781 I pulled the plug around 15mins. It was still blinking. There was no adverse effect. I think the process really only takes a couple minutes, but Mark just wanted to build in a buffer just in case.
Hi Mark, I followed your guide today and switched from sd to SSD. It’s up and running now but all my ad ons such as Google drive backup, Grafana, node-RED have all stopped and clicking on “start” is doing nothing. I’m not sure how to correct this. I’ve been trying to remove Google drive backup and reinstall but not having any luck. I’m wondering what I’ve done wrong. Have you had anyone saying this before? Cheers. 😊
Heya. Glad you got it working. Are there any errors in your logs for the Google Backup addon?
@@MarkWattTech thanks for the response. I’m not seeing anything in the logs when searching. I was considering removing hacs and reinstalling, is that a good or bad idea would you say?
SSH doesnt seem to work when i try to connect to the Pi. Is there an additional step that needs to be done for a fresh install for a new Pi and SSD?
Did you create the .ssh file at the beginning? :) and enable ssh from raspi config
Mark thanks for a great video. I have my HA on SSD drive from SD Card. Can you tell me I would like to try to create another SSD drive with Home Assistant with a fresh install on SSD drive. If I remove SSD drive and connect my Old SSD drive back into the PI would I pick up any problems with my OLD HA. Basically, having two on separate SSD drives. ( Obviously not running at the same time ) Hope this makes sense.
Do you mean can you switch between different HA installs on different SSDs with the same PI?
(If that is what you mean - both instances are separate so they wont interact or cause issues with each other).
@@MarkWattTech Thanks , no I mean two seperate SSD drives. I want to do some testing and so have two HD on different SSD.
@@vaughanza so like a Live and a Test HA? (You can do this yes, both are isolated and wont interfere)
Have ever been asked to do this with a set up called Ham Pi to a SSD using the Argon ONE M.2 Case for Raspberry Pi 4?
I have an Argon One M.2 setup coming soon 😁. Just waiting for a new case. Is this install with Ham Pi or adding Ham Pi to Home Assistant?
@@MarkWattTech Just Ham pie I have not found many Vid with how to flash hampi to the SSD I think your Vid sent me in the right direction though thinking i need a USB male to male so I can flash HamPi from my computer straight to the 3.0 bottom jack on the Argon m2.
@@rebelamateurradion2fix196 you could yeah. Or put the m2 in a caddy/reader :) whichever is simplest for you.
Hello Mark, here an enthousiastic follower.... I tried to install my Raspberry 4 4gb, with a SATA SSD 120GB WD Green. I have the problem when i connect the SSD to a USB 3 port, nothing works, when i do it to the USB 2 port, it works. What do i do wrong? I follow your course exactly..... Thanks in advance. Frank
what adapter are you using? :) I have had this issue when using some sata to usb3 adapters. It's a Pi specific issue with the adapter chipsets (if this is the issue you are having).
@@MarkWattTech Thanks Mark. Now i bought the Argon case..... problem solved. The adapter was recommanded by other users! Thanks again. Frank
I've just come back to my Pi, the green LED was on while I had my dinner, so a bit longer than 10mins. I am a little unsure where and when to plug the SSD in as you say 'machine' and there is a caption on screen that refers to 'PC' can you spell it out please?
Hey Dave. Just got to your comment. Have you managed to sort it? I will try and clear those steps up in future videos 👍🏻
@@MarkWattTech - Yes I have it all working now thanks
Hello, Mark is this method valid for pi4, 2G, 32 bit ?
Hey. This is for 64bit version for any Pi4 model.
@@MarkWattTech ok
Hey, thanks for the video. I little off-topic question since I had massive issues with this: I had an SSD for some month now on my RPi 4 with HA and wanted to integrate my ConBee ll stick within HA. Since you also got the deConz integration and I assume it's working, this seems achievable somehow. My issue is, that the stick combined with a SSD (using a Kingston A400 SSD with an Inatreck Case) won't work. Well, it kinda does work because I can set up the ZHA or deConz integration without errors. But when I scan/go for pairing mode in ZigBee I am not able to detect any ZigBee devices. As soon as I went back from my SSD to an SD (installed today on an SD and restored the current snapshot) my ZigBee stick finds the device within 1-5 seconds. So I am stuck between not using the SSD again or not having ZigBee working, which is both awful. Also, currently in discussion within the HA Forum if you want to jump in community.home-assistant.io/t/list-of-working-zigbee-bulbs-for-deconz-zha-without-special-manufacture-gateways/296459/16
Thanks for the feedback :)
Are you using your Conbee on an extension cable?
@@MarkWattTech I was using the one I had in spare to test if i could get the conbee working. But it didn’t work with the extension. However it is only 20 cm long. This is currently the only one I had in spare. What is our recommended length for the extension/the one you’re using?
I have read that there is an issue with USB3 on the Pi4 affecting radio devices. If this is indeed the case then try with a SHIELDED extension cable, and if they are USB2 devices have it plugged into a USB2 port on the Pi. I hope this helps.
wait how do i know when it is done update the pi for usb boot?
Heya. I didn't mention it in this video. But it only takes a couple of seconds. So you should be good to unplug and carry on. If you where using a screen it would turn green to show you it completed the update.
Will the green light stop flashing on the pi once the firmware is updated or do I just unplug it after 10 minutes?
It actually updates super quick. I just say 10mins to make sure people left it long enough :) it wont stop blinking. Just unplug and good to go.
If you had it plugged into an external monitor you would get a helpful green screen to let you know it was successful :)
@@MarkWattTech thanks mark. this is quiet helpful comment.
Great video but getting a 404 error for the links for the pi image and 64bit home assistant. Think I've got the right ones is 64 one on GitHub?
Oh really? I just tried it and it starts the file download immediately. It is the git hub one yes. github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases
And then just choose your preferred install.
@@MarkWattTech Sorry it's working now must've been my network. Thanks again and look forward to the next video
I am on the step of "Ready our pi for USB booting." Currently, i've let my pi run for over a half an hour and I still have the green flashing activity light. Did I do something wrong or is it safe to unplug?
Hey! Its safe to unplug :) it should he fine after a couple of minutes.
@@MarkWattTech Thanks for the quick reply! I still have it running haha! I didn't know if the activity light would stop when done writing! Thanks!
@@alexkapellen8287 No worries :D
@@MarkWattTech Been working through another issue: I can't get it to boot off of an SSD. I thought it was an issue with the RPi but just got it working using the same steps but installing it on an SD card. When trying it through an SSD, it doesn't work. I am using a Samsung 860 Evo (which i have seen works) and a cord with the ASM1153 chipset. Any ideas??
Hi Mark, great video as always.
Unfortunately I'm having an issue. After plugging in my my SSD and powering up my Pi, I can see on my routers interface that 'homeassistant' is showing up straight away, but I can't connect to it (connection timed out) trying both the IP:8123 and homeassistant.local:8123. After around 10-15 minutes the homeassistant disappears from my routers interface as if it's not longer connected.
Using a Samsung 840 EVO and StarTech SATA adapter. Any suggestions?
Hi Anders. Did you have much luck with this?
@@MarkWattTech Unfortunately not, had to get it up and running using SD card again before my SO got home, can't afford losing any more WAF-points 😅 Will comment here if I figure something out on a later point.
@@anders2006no 😂😂 best to keep them stocked up and wait till they are away. Let us know how you get on when you next get a chance :)
@@MarkWattTech I suppose my issue from 4 months back hasnt kept you up at night, but wanted to let you know that with a new SSD (Samsung Evo 870) it works flawlessly. Took me a while, but thanks for the great video!
@@anders2006no Awesome thanks for the update 😁.
When I click on Misc utility images the only options I get are 1) Back or 2) Raspberry Pi 4 EPROM boot recovery not as you show Bootloader, if you follow this option it goes onto flashing the SD card?
Are you using the latest version of Pi imager? Just checked the latest (v1.6) and it is under misc utility images.
Cheers.
@@MarkWattTech Just looked and it's 1.4 -:( many thanks for your VERY speedy reply - and yes I have subscribed :-)
@@davelucas5301 can you try and update to the latest one? I think in the video I used v1.5
The Pi imager has changed in the last couple of updates. Off topic but the Pi imager now lets you auto create the .ssh and wpa_supplicant files which is awesome 🙌🏻😁
I've tried to get HA to boot from 2 different SSDs and different configs. In all cases, it boots fine from the SSD if I have just plain Raspberry Pi on the SSD, so I'm pretty confident I did all the steps correctly. But if I have Home Assistant, it never boots and nothing ever comes up on the display. The hardware I've tried:
1) Samsung V-NAND SSD 970 EVOPlus NVME m.2. This is on James Chambers list of SSDs that should work. Tried both with an external case + USB cable, as well as directly on a USB dongle
2) Western Digital Passport + USB cable
:(
Hey Gary.
Are you able to attach an external monitor to the Pi while it tries to do the HA boot (to check for any errors).
A couple of other things:
- Are you using a 64bit HA image?
- Are you using a recommended Power supply?
- Sounds counter productive, but have you tried another USB port (try a usb2 port)
Cheers,
Mark
@@MarkWattTech Thanks for the reply. I'm using 32-bit HA image (on 32-bit Pi). Does SSD work better on 64-bit? I've got an external monitor attached but nothing is displayed at all when I try to boot from the SSD -- no text, no errors, nothing. I'm using the authentic Pi power supply as well. And I've tried the SSD using all 4 of the USB ports with no luck.
@@garyinasia7162 I think SSD now has to be 64bit. Which is actually also the build the HA devz now recommend.
Cheers
@@MarkWattTech Thanks Mark, yup that was the problem. Switched to 64-bit and it worked perfectly. Thanks for the help -- love your videos!
@@garyinasia7162 Awesome :) Thanks Gary
your ssd link is dead, whats the drive requirements?
Which link are you referring to sorry?
Great videos - I have watched all of them on moving from SD to SSD, but cannot get it working on my pi :(
What issue/Error are you having Matt?
@@MarkWattTech I'm unsure what the issue is - When I plug my SSD in and try and boot Home Assistant, I get nothing. Swap it back to the SD and it works perfectly.
@@mattbradbury1992 hey Matt. Have you checked your SSD and cable are in the compatible devices list? Are you also using a Pi4?
Cheers,
Mark
@@MarkWattTech Hey, I am using the same sata cable and SSD as you - to make sure it wasn't an issue, on a pi4. Will have one last go at it today, to see if I can get it working.
Have had another go and got it working :)
Did not work for me :( Could not boot from SSD and not connect to the net. Had to revert back to the old SD-card.
Hey. Which part did you get stuck on? Have you checked that your devices are in the known working device list?
@@MarkWattTech Thanks for answering I guess it was the adapter, as it is one in the "blacklist" (Sabrent 3.0). I have ordered an adapter that is confirmed to be working, and I will try again :)
@@kjelle392 no worries. Hopefully your new adapter will work :)
Can I be migrated from home assistant 32 bits to home assistant 64 bit without any issues ?
You can do this yes :) In this video I move from a 32bit install on an SD card, to a 64bit version on an SSD.
@@MarkWattTech thankx
Just went through this installation to move to an ssd. Everything ok, not even corrupt databases, except that the deconz integration stopped working altogether..
changed the conbee stick to a different usb port, did a hard restart cause hassio went cray-cray, and now i think everything is back to normal
Scratch that, the Plex integration stopped working. But that one is not that important.
FYI, I installed onto a SanDisk Extreme PRO Solid State USB Flash Drive
Hey thanks for the updates. How's it running now? If your using the Conbee II with an SSD I would 100% recommend you use an extension cable to give the Conbee some distance. Cheers.
@@MarkWattTech was already using an extension cable. Everything is running smooth now, all good and fast ♥
@@kraddoomsters wicked 😁👌🏻
got my new pi4 8gb today and installed like you showed, but stuck at Preparing home assistant...sucks
Have you tried refreshing the page? Sometimes people will sit there hours and it is actually complete but hasn't refreshed.
@@MarkWattTech YES and tried running from sd card and from ssd
@@MarkWattTech on the pi monitor it shows the cli ha> prompt and supervisor logs say all is ok. could it be my network?
@@MarkWattTech I'll be...switched to a different router, now works! i dunno..
@@TheUnofficialMaker glad you got it working in the end
Hi Mark, I have been able to install and run my HomeAssistant on an SSD with a rasp Pi4 but I am unable to run the Pi on WiFi, any ideas on how to fix?
Have you entered all of your WiFi creds in HA?
@@MarkWattTech where would I do this?
@@MAMDAVEM Open HA
- Choose Supervisor
- System (top of page)
- You should then see IP address. Press the "change" button
- You should then see WLAN0. Press this, then WiFi and setup your connection :)
If your still stuck, checkout my FB group and I can try help with screenshots etc.
@@MarkWattTech perfect, problem solved. You have made my evening thanks!
@@MAMDAVEM happy to help 😁
does anyone know can i do this and still boot from the SD card ?? Thanks !!
As long as you dont wipe your SD card that has HA on (use a different one for the SD card step) you could just put your card back in and it would work normally. If thats what you mean?
Thx a lot.
I followed your excellent guide to move from SD to SSD.
(Grabbed the chance to upgrade from Pi3b+ to Pi4 8GB)
I got stuck at the boot part of HA and uploading my back up file.
I waited for approxamitly 15 to 20 minutes to let it install my back up.
Butt nothing happened.
So rebooted and the welcome screen reappeared.
So I logged in with my old credentials to a new HA set up.
From there on I uploaded my back up file again and let it install.
Waited again for 15 minutes.
Recieve a message on my phone that Home Assistant had successfully restarted, an handy blue print I had installed
(community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-restart-notification/256409/9)
Yet than again, I could not log in.
Then I remembered I gave my old Pi an fixed IP adress based on the Mac adress in my router (primarily for duck.dns).
I updated the Mac adress in the router, and rebooted everything.
Waited for the message that HA had successfully restarted and there it was.
It is working just fine, even the duck.dns log in worked like before.
So thank you for your excellent guide.
Thanks for sharing Peter. Glad you got it working :D