This is the best guide I have found. I saw some people complaining about the depth of your explanations, but I love it. That's why I'm here on the EASY (idiot's) guide. If anyone is upset at the effort and time you have put into this one, they should be directed to the QUICK video, which you have also provided.
Mark, This is a great video. There is a big demand out there for step by step tutorials like this. Many like myself have just a basic understanding of Raspberry Pi's, Arduino's, ESP32's etc. We want to do more with the hobby but require simple to follow Tutorials like this. I have many simple projects at home nearly all accomplished by following video tutorials and copying other 'wiser' individuals sketches and components. Thank you.
Thanks for the feedback Andrew! Glad the video was helpful. I have plenty more beginner guide type videos coming out for the Pi, Home Assistant, ESP boards and 1 or 2 Arduino ones. Its just a case of finding the time :)
works with Raspberry Pi 3b+ - intel ssd 600p series 256gb and LC-M2-C-NVME-2X2 (External USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 aluminium enclosure for a NVMe M.2 SSD) you just need to make Imag with "Raspberry Pi Images" ,restart windows to see it on ssd,pik it in Raspberry Pi 3b+ wait for 10 min. and it works
Great step-by-step tutorial. I'd been holding off attempting the SD to SSD for an existing HA installation, now it's running on SSD and so much faster. I lost History as well.
Hey Mark. Just wanted to say that this is a great video. I've been wanting to start a smart house for a while now, and your tutorials are helping quite a lot. I just wanted to note that recently raspberry changed the way you log into pi. The user/password is no longer "pi/raspberry". Now you have to change it when installing it with pi imager. There's a config button on the bottom right corner (there's even an option to allow ssh now). Hope it helps :)
Heya! Thanks for sharing. I was aware I just haven't updated this tutorial in a while. Some of the newer versions I did of this feature the new Pi imager, but not the new admin password. I will pin your comment for others incase anyone gets stuck :)
Well done Sir! I've watched numerous iterations and your production provided the best coverage. My system is now functional with a new M.2 and room to grow. And I did subscribe. Best wishes... from Orlando!
maybe im just overthinking stuff, but since i did all the changes to the config etc, and THEN removed the sd-card, how is everything carried over to the raspberry setup i have on my ssd?
Hi, very good tutorial, but i would like to ask if somebody face problem with sleeping SSD. HA working while like 2-6 hours and then i am not able to connect to HA and need hard reset.
Got my database destroyed after upgrading which you also show in the video! Does this usually happen? After deletion, everything works again but historical value is gone. Is there a bug in the snapshot recovery. Why does the lsblk command not work in HA, is there any other way to check the partitions via SSH and terminal? Thanks for a great video.
@@MarkWattTech thanks for the quick reply. I'm going to be ordering some stuff this afternoon it looks like. Along with a new power supply. I keep getting yelled at in the HA logs about my pi power status
@@MarkWattTech so got all my parts in and set up. everything goes well until i try installing file editor and fail. heres the log, any ideas? 21-02-14 23:41:15 ERROR (SyncWorker_5) [supervisor.docker.interface] Can't install homeassistant/aarch64-hassio-supervisor:2021.02.9 -> 404 Client Error for http+docker://localhost/v1.40/images/homeassistant/aarch64-hassio-supervisor:2021.02.9/json: Not Found ("no such image: homeassistant/aarch64-hassio-supervisor:2021.02.9: No such image: homeassistant/aarch64-hassio-supervisor:2021.02.9"). 21-02-14 23:41:15 ERROR (MainThread) [supervisor.supervisor] Update of Supervisor failed! 21-02-14 23:44:42 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.jobs] 'AddonManager.install' blocked from execution, system is not healthy
I followed this guide, but just to make sure my USB3 to SATA adapter is compatible I am using 2.5inch hdd to boot up hassio. It went perfect! After few days of use, and has no issues running it I decided to purchase 256GB SSD, and this time Im having issues booting to it. Same USB to sata enclosure, only swapping the HDD to SSD my rpi4 having hard time booting up from SSD. What did I do wrong? Swapping back to HDD then I can boot hassio fine. I re downloading the hassio install image twice, reinstalling balena etcher, reflashing the image to SSD multiple times, all no luck. What did I missed? hmmm
@@MarkWattTech thanks for replying :) it turns out it seems my usb3 to sata adapter is not compatible when connected to ssd drive. Something related with UASP or something. When I connect to the USB2 port, the RPI4 can boot it fine, it seems UASP only enabled when connected using USB3. Perhaps UASP also not enabled when connected to HDD even connected to USB3 port. I ordered another USB enclosure and hopefully it will be fully compatible :)
Good tutorial and very easy to follow step by step. But I‘m wondering why you do all the raspberry OS configuration stuff when you‘re only interested in setting it to boot from USB and use HassIO from this point on?
Thanks Alex. In order for the USB stuff to work, we need to make sure the EEPROM is up to date on the Pi (in order to be able to boot into HA). There are several ways of doing this, I just chose this method for the video.
Great tutorials. I have been following along. Got a 8GB Rpi 4 running on my SSD with the StarTech usb connection etc.. However.. It crashes multiple times a day requiring me to turn the pi off and on again. Any ideas?
I walked every step, but can`t open HA. If i unplug the SD and plugin the SSD the green led is constantly flickering really fast. What does that mean? Try to run the Pi4 8GB with a Samsung 860 EVO SSD. Can`t reach the PI too after only the SSD plugged.
Is there a way to install home assistant on the raspberry pi and still use it. As I've bought a pi4 and would like to use it for projects aswell amd to learn coding and so forth. I've heard of hasbien but as far as I'm aware this is no longer any good. I've also heard of installing with dockers but I'm new and I don't have a clue what dockers are
Hey Peter. You can yes, to do this you would need to use a different home assistant installation method. In his video I use the Home Assistant OS install. You could use the Home Assistant Supervised method which would allow you to say run Pi OS and do all your normal desktopy bits and have HA run in the background. I currently don’t have a video out for this install but it is on my todo list. Have a look into the Supervised method :)
Question, versus installing an image of HomeAssistant to the SSD, what happens if I install an image of my current HA configuration to the SSD? Or is it better to install a fresh version of HA and restore via sanpshot?
Thank you for a terrific video. Question - once you are running on Home Assistant, is it possible to get back to the raspberrypi configuration? I do not seem to be able to do so.
Hey Stephen. I don’t think you can from the Home Assistant OS. If your booting into Home Assistant OS like in this video from an SSD you wont be able to. If you unplug the SSD and put in the SD card you will be able to access the config again. Then make any changes and switch back to your SSD.
Hi Mark I did al those steps have the same hardware but its not booting op from SSD i have used a USB power supply but still not booting up i have wait for more than 10 minuts but no boot up, if i put the SD-card back it boots up and HA is running What im doing wrong here.
@@MarkWattTech I have a sper 5 Amp and just that and its running the backup now so its the power supply from 3 Amp that was giving me a hardtime, Thanx for the support!!!!
Thank you for your useful video, it helped me a lot to migrate my Home Assistant from a Raspberry Pi Model 3B+ to a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB. I ran into a couple of problems though: using the CMD.exe to create a blank ssh file would not work unless I ran it in administrator mode. Also, trying to restore a snapshot from the Home Assistant setup screen wouldn’t work so I configured a minimum Home Assistant install then used the Snapshot section of the Supervisor to restore the system. That worked great. By the way, I used an Inland 2.5” case containing an Intel 240GB SSD with a USB 3.0 interface and it worked without any hassle at all.
Hi, Thanks for this video! I did make the transfer yesterday. I worked well, just one issue. I have some Xiaomi and Aqara devices that are not reconnecting. Even when I try adding new devices on my conbee 2 (ZHA), impossible to find devices. Even a new device, not yet installed before is not found. Any idee? Thanks
Hey Dirk. Did you manage to solve your issue? How is your Conbee connected? A common issue is that the conbee can suffer from interference from sata and ssd connection. Using a usb extension cable is recommended and will resolve this issue. Cheers
@@MarkWattTech Hi Mark, after 2 days i did reboot and after rebooting, it took several hours before it finds all devices, but everything works fine now ! Thanks !
Hi, thanks for sharing your knowledge and congratulations on the video. I have a question: is the procedure exactly the same for installing the H.A. on a pendrive or is there something else to consider? Thank you very much
I’m assuming by pendrive you’re also referring to a flash drive as one in the same. They have similar characteristics to the SD card in terms of reliability and longevity. I’d go with a legit SSD if you can as it’ll be better. Answering your question though, it should be the same process.
Hi Mark, Thanks for the tutorial, but unfortunately I've a problem. I can't connect to the pi via SSH. It always says the password is incorrect! What can it be? Thank you
when you load the image with raspberry pi imager you need to click on the settings button (looks like a gear) and select enable ssh and enter the password you want to log in with.
Hey Derek. Glad it worked for you. If you open the supervisor tab there is a section there for host. In that section you will see your IP address. Press change me and it will open your network settings. You can then switch from ETH0 to WLAN0. When you choose WLAN0 you will get the option to scan for an access point and connect to your WiFi. Give me a shout if you need anything :)
I'm buying a Raspberry Pi4b 8gb second hand tomorrow which comes in a case, with Micro SD and a 128 SSD - I'm hoping to follow this video to get started - however I don't have Windows. Can this be achieved on a Chromebook?
@@MarkWattTech Thanks Mark. Do you have a guide for this? Or can anyone kindly point me in the right direction? The Raspberry Pi Imager doesnt seem to have a version for Chrome OS and the nearest option is Ubuntu.
Hey Chris, sorry I should have given a little more detail. With Chrome OS you will need to use something like Chrome Recovery tools or Linux tools. It is a bit of a faf with Chrome OS being restrictive. I'm sure there was a version of balaena etcher being created for Chrome OS (or a way to run it) which is a similar imaging tool.
Thanks for your help Mark. Great channel and very informative. Ok, I'm getting there with this. If anyone is interested in installing using a Chromebook: 1. Download the Raspberry Pi image. 2. Download Wicked Good Archiver Chrome extension. Try to unpack the download with this. 3. Download Zarchive - unpack the image file with this. 4. Use Zarchive to repackage as a Zip file 5. Use Chrome recovery tool to write the Zip to the sd card. 6. Doesn't seem to work, borrow a Windows laptop and burn using Balena Etcher and follow the steps in one of Mark's videos instead. :)
I am using a Netac Z Slim 250GB SSD. And HomeAssistant won't turn on - just a black screen, even if you wait an hour, Raspberry pinges from the Windows console. At the same time, Raspberry OS is launched from the SSD and works stable. Loader on Raspberry from January 2021, HASSIO 5.10. What can be wrong? HASSIO is recorded through both ways - Raspberry Imager and balenaEtcher. I also tried USB 2.0 & USB 3.0 (
Hey! Sorry for the super late reply. Your comment was held in "held for review" but didn't actually show up. So only just seen it. Glad you sorted your issue though :)
When I flash the sd card using the PI imager and it all finishes nicely I cannot see the "Boot" drive. I have pulled out the SD card and re-inserted it but only to see a few files. I used teh 64K version to flash the SD card. Hence I cannot add the SSH file. I tried the SD card anyway in the Pi 4B and it installed. If I try a SSH connection it refuses my attempt. What could be wrong.
Hi Neil! Sorry for the super late reply. Sometimes my comments are held "for review" but don't actually show up so only just seen this. I imagine you have resolved your issue by now. In the newest version of the Pi Imager theres an option to create the SSH file and WPA_Supplicant file which will make things super easy when setting up Pi's. Cheers! And sorry again
Great video Mark. I did notice that you are installing the 32-bit OS, but the 64-bit HA image. Have you been running this way successfully or was this an oversight? I I recall, not that long ago the 32-bit version of HA was recommended because some addons has issues under the 64-bit.... has that been resolved? Also, can you provide some deals on setting up a static IP? I have no issue getting this working on the SD card, but I have not been successful with the version on the SSD.
So we use the 32bit Pi OS just to make changes to the Pi before we load on the 64bit HA image. There are a few different ways to make changes to the Pi’s epRom but this is just the method I chose for the video. The Pi image is only used for this step (you could use any). Since the big 1.0 update HA now recommend the 64bit image. There is details about this on the image installation page :) Are you struggling to connect to your Pi on your network?
@@MarkWattTech No, I have it up and running thanks to your instructions. I did have a lot of problems flashing my sd card, it kept telling me that my card was corrupt. I ended up using balenaEtcher in the end. I am still struggling to understand one thing though. We flash the SD card with the Rp OS, then we flash the SSD drive with HA plus the OS. However, we then go through all the trouble of updating the OS on the SD card only to stop using it. I suspect at some point I will need to update the OS on the SSD card. Is there a separate procedure for updating the OS on the SSD or does that happen with HA updates? Also. I am having a problem with my Nortek z-wave USB stick and maybe you know the answer to this..... why do people talk about doing a factory reset on their z-wave USB sticks? Is the z-wave database or other information actually stored on the sticks or is it to bring better support for z-wave devices? Lastly, my main concern right now is that my HA instance is using DHCP. I am going to want to set up a static IP, but I just haven't got that far yet. Maybe this is something you could consider walking through in future videos? Cheers! Kevin
Hai Mark, thanks for you great vids! I have 1 question. I install on the sd card the raspberry software. Then you go to explorer and there you see your card with the 2 parts. But what i do i don't see nothing in my explorer in Win 10. Can you help me please. Thanks Frank
Hey Frank. Have you tried simply removing an reinserting the card? (Should just make it reappear) Windows may see it then. If not you will need to access the card via Disk Management in Windows 10. Cheers.
@@MarkWattTech Hi Mark, you are fast.... Thanks. I won't work for me, i see a lot of questions on the internet..... my search will go on. Cheers! Is it al ready your time? Thanks
@@directhouses838 I have created a new version of this video. Not sure if it will be of much help: th-cam.com/video/HA1C1wgyJfI/w-d-xo.html The new version of the Pi Imager allows you to auto generate the SSH file now (if thats the part your stuck on). Saves a few steps. I’ve not used it yet as it’s a new feature. www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-imager-update-to-v1-6/
@@MarkWattTech Hi Mark. Man you are fast. I find finally the solution. You have to go to disc Management and there you have to give the section "boot" a drive letter. Click right on "boot" and there you can do that. I hope it helps others. Many thanks. I will buy a coffee or beer. Frank
@@directhouses838 Hey Frank, awesome thank you. This is what I meant in my first suggestion. Sorry should have elaborated more! I will be sure to go into more detail on any issues like this etc in future videos 👍🏻. Glad you got it working. Happy Home Assistant-ing 😁
Hey, thanks for the guide. Everything worked fine until I unplugged my monitor... For some reasons my Raspberry won't start up anymore. I double checked by using the SD card and it worked perfectly. Any idea what could cause this issue? When I plug in the monitor after trying to boot from SSD I only see the Raspberry PI boot screen with a lot of errors.
@@MarkWattTech Well, I think I found a solution by adjusting the /boot/config.txt (which in Home Assistant OS is located in /mnt/boot/config.txt). This was actually a lot of trial and error and it seems that a combination of specifying a framebuffer width and height, use hdmi_force_hotplug=1 and enable_uart=1 did the job. Important thing to note is, that this only works when you can ssh into the home assistant command line. It seems to be a known problem with Raspbian, and I found a lot of useful stuff in Raspberry forums. However as Homeassistant OS is quite different, there's not too much info out there. I really wonder, why it worked for you out of the box...
I am new to both raspberry pi and home assistant and I am having a hard time keeping the raspberry pi with home assistant connected to my network. All the ssh-commands is brand new for me. No other installation on TH-cam or the official installation of home assistant mention this. Could that be the reason that i just can't keep home assistant alive on the network for more than hours after the installation? Raspberry pi OS seems like it is stable and remains connected.
@@jonasnystrom2707 hmm strange. I would have thought maybe it was a power issue but that should be fine for a Pi. Does the Pi stay on and its just losing it’s connection?
@@MarkWattTech Yes. The power is on and it just disapears from the network. I can not see the device when i scan my network for device and I can not access the ip adress home assistant had when it was connected.
I have now installed home assistant on a usb instead. I had a hard time booting from usb aswell. The problem was that i tried the 32 bit version. When i flashed the 64 bit version i could boot from usb and when it booted up it has been online without problems over night. Much longer than ever before. 👍
Probably is a dumb question, but I'm not getting the Pi to boot from the SSD yet. So when I flash the Hassos to the SSD, it reduces the 250GB drive to a mere 32MB. Is that normal, what happened to the other 249GB?
Hey Larry. When you flash the drive you should have a couple of partitions. When you boot into HA you will be able to see your current and available disk size and it should be the full amount.
Hi, I have followed your guide but used a Samsung 970 Plus NVMe - instead of running faster than the SD card, it is painfully slow with Home Assistant. Just opening the account took nearly an hour and adding each integration was around 40 min. What am I doing wrong? Im using a raspberry PI 4 8GB. I have the NVMe plugged into the top blue USB. Also the NVMe is running really hot in this case M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure, Aluminum USB C 3.1 Gen 2 to M-Key M&B-Key NVMe PCIe 10Gbps External Enclosure, Fits 2230/2242/2260/2280 NVMe PCIe SSD, Tool-Fr any help is much appreciated. Thank you in anticipation.
@@MarkWattTech Hello and thanks for asking. Upon adding an external power supply it now works. However, I’m now trying to configure a Deconz Raspbee II in HA. It’s just not recognising the device. A video on setting that up would be fantastic.
Hey Lewis. There seems to be only specific cables / adapters that are currently compatible with Home Assistant on SSD using the Pi. There's some information on this available here : community.home-assistant.io/t/installing-home-assistant-on-a-rpi-4b-8gb-with-ssd-boot/230948 One of the main issues people seem to be having are the cables and the power supplied to the Pi. If there's not enough power you may experience things like the slow booting.
@@MarkWattTech yeah...! I will, but try not! lol... I’m adding the adapter to cart right now. Hope I can get it up ASAP. At the moment just run it on my sad card. Thanks for your speedy reply.
@@LEWISTAI In case it helps, I had a similar situation. I was using the Sabrent cable. It got a lot better after I ran the firmware update utility for the Sabrent cable, but I also grabbed a StarTech cable and haven't had an issue whatsoever since. Note that the first-time boot up does take quite a while.
Thank you - it’s working with an old laptop SSD in an eBay caddy. A heads up for others - my caddy only works (boots from) the rpi usb2 port not the blue usb3 one! If you try this install and it fails try the usb2 port. Regardless it is much faster than the micro SD 👍
Hello! Can you help me? When I put the rasp os in the sd card and init rasp pi appear this error "end kernel panic not syncing attempted to kill init exitcode=0x00000000b" what can i do?
@@MarkWattTech now i have a new raspberry. In MobaXterm i have a problem, when i connect to raspberry pi appear an error: "Network error: Connection refused"
Hi, great video. I am new in raspberry pi world. I got issue, after update raspberry, after last reboot my pi not working, I can't connect with it through MobaXterm(host does not exist). Do you know what is wrong?. Thanks
@@MarkWattTech I tried both, I see pi in my network but can't connect to it. I changed Port which is least number of ip address with success. Pi made a lot of updates, it took about 25min.
Hi Mark, I did everything like in your Video und everything has worked, but i cant get into Homeassistant. Have fix IP, the Pi is flashing the green LED every 2 Seconds, my SSD is blinking but Homeassistant did not start. I have done everything with your Video, USB Boot, eeprom update, i got same Version as you, everythings the same... any Idea how to fix that ? Thank You.
Hey there. do you manage to access your home assistant instance at all (Does the Home Assistant page appear) when you visit your Pi's local address or homeassistant.local:8123 Do you get any error page back?
@@MarkWattTech For now I tried more times. I opened my Router and the IP was xxx.2 but on my last pi 3 Installation it was xxx.100, maybe this was a Problem after I opened my Backup again. So I did flash the SSD again to reset everything and gave the Pi4 the old IP xxx.100 at my Router Menu. This Time the Pi4 iss prepairing HA on SD, after this is finished I will try again from SSD... I dont know. My feeling iss that the SSD iss slower. But it can do 300-500MB/s, so maybe only a feeling... i try again after HA has finished on SD and be back in time...
@@MarkWattTech After restoring my FULL Backup from my Pi3 i get something like "Onboarding fault", so i will try it again... should i uncheck something from the old backup maybe ?!
@@MarkWattTech After some hours of trying, maybe you have an Idea Mark. I tried to boot from SSD and one Time it worked, but after restoring my Backup some Add-Ons wont work and it runs unstable. Now I restored my Backup at the same new installation on SD without Problems. So for now I run it on Pi 4 8GB, with 32gb microSD Card. I cant get it running on SSD and also booting on SSD takes 10 times longer then on SD, I dont know why. Its a bit confusing for me now...
@@mrkus21 hey! If you do a fresh install on the SSD does that work okay or is it taking a long time still? The SSD should be really quick. Which image of Home Assistant are you using?
@@MuhammadUmarMeo in mac you can just create a new file and call it .ssh. If you use the new version of Pi imager there is actually an option to generate and ssh file via pi imager :)
Merci pour le tuto, quelques problème lors du login & passeword non reconnu via la connection ssh ma fait refaire la manip plusieurs fois, mais maintenant j'utilise mon Msata en usb, pour eviter de cramer de la carte SD, au top
Hiiii... you did an excellent tutorial ... Congratulations. But I was unable to turn the Home Assistant in my Raspberry PI4 running 4Gb 128Gb SSD M.2 by USB3.0. Help me
@@MarkWattTech Hi Mark... I have reviewed all the steps and discovered that I was not betting on ip port :8123. I am a noob :( :(. Now is working perfectly. Thanks for your tutorial and your willingness to help
Really appreciated this detailed video. Great for a HA newbie. Followed your instructions and get everything going on an SSD without any issues at all. Great!
Great video, to bad it took me 2 days to get it working ;) Bought 2 different usb to sata adapters, no solution. My rasperry pi adapter has 5A power supply, but to be sure i also used a usb hub with external power supply for the SSD, still no result. Finally disassembled my portable hard drive with external power supply (0.8A) and mounted the ssd in it and voila, eureka.
Hey Tom. I haven't tried this yet. I'm waiting for an M.2 case to arrive and will give it a go when I get a sec. I'll be sure to post a video when I do. Cheers.
@@MarkWattTech Thanks ! and Good Luck when you do, let us know if you can! The Pi4's have been able to boot to the NVMe's for a few months now... But HASSio seems to need a SATA drive.. so frustrating.
@@tomjones2860 I can confirm also from my side. I lose several hours to understand why HASSIO don't want boot from USB... at the end I tried to install Raspian OS on USB and it worked one first attempt. I hope that will be a solution with M.2 drive
@@scann73 There is a guy over at the HA forum that noted that HASSIO needs a certain level of firmware on the NVMe -> USB adapter. If the Firmware is above 2.00.09 then some (most?) drives and adapters seem to work... below that no luck. Pi OS does not have this limitation (again who knows why)
Hi Mark, Great tutorial! I'm a beginner and it was perfect. I followed all the steps but when I get to the part where I take out the sd card and plug in the ssd and head to the browser - nothing. The pi looks likes its booted up, all indicators look good but when I enter the IP address (or, homeassistant.local:8123), I get a 'can't reach, etc' message. I had look down the comments and is sounds a bit like the problem mrk had back a month ago. But I'm getting nothing at all. I when back and repeated the commands - I took particular care with the Advances Option items need the end and all looked good. Also afreshassos_rpi4-64-5.12.img.xz) and everything worked per the tutorial. I have a Pi 4 Model B 2GB RAM; Pi oficial USB-c power supply, WD Green 240GB SSD, Startech SATA to USB cable | SATA III 6Gbps | 2.5" SSD or HDD | USB 3.0. Grateful for any suggestions, I can't help thinking it must be something simple. Sean
@@SeanSligo Hey Sean. I’m free this morning if you want to drop me a message on my Facebook page? I can try and assist you with troubleshooting if you want?
Robert, depending on the Linux version you install on the RPi you will end up with two partitions on the SSD. So typically you may have: - boot partition: VFAT. contains the boo-related config files and firmware (.ELF) - root partition: EXT4. contains the data directories you are familiar with, like /home/pi
Hopefully you will see the improvements in my newer videos. I have been experimenting and moved away from that old 720p webcam. Thanks for the feedback.
Mark, have you done a crypto miner on Rpi yet? I would love to do one using ssh, Rpi4, ssd, etc. I don’t expect to make money with it to retire on…. I just want to do one. Thx.
I wonder if this method is officially supported. I think because of stability it's advisable to only move the data partition to the SSD using the dataclt command, while leaving the OS and boot patition on the SD card. www.home-assistant.io/hassio/hassos_faq/
The devs for Home Assistant do recommend the dataclt version. A big issue with this ssd setup is that only particular sata to usb cables work. I may do a video on the dataclt version as one of my install videos.
Sorry mate when I am looking for "HOW TO DO SOMETHING" it really gets irritating when the tutorial starts 3 minutes into the video. SO many videos looking for how to do something x 3 minutes it adds up.I hope you take this in the way it was intended.
hi. I went through your way in mobaxtreme followed all the steps except (i didnt have sd card so i used a USB for raspberry image and flashed it) and then i powered up Rasberry pi and inserted the USB connected the ethernet to my router to Pi, but in mobaxtreme it says connection refused when i start an ssh client. Please help
For the Pi you will first need to enable USB booting else it wont work. If you check out some of my newer videos I show you how to do this is a simpler way. You will need an SD card to update the Pi’s boot loader order though.
This is the best guide I have found. I saw some people complaining about the depth of your explanations, but I love it. That's why I'm here on the EASY (idiot's) guide. If anyone is upset at the effort and time you have put into this one, they should be directed to the QUICK video, which you have also provided.
Thank you for the support and feedback! Glad to have helped :)
Mark, This is a great video. There is a big demand out there for step by step tutorials like this. Many like myself have just a basic understanding of Raspberry Pi's, Arduino's, ESP32's etc. We want to do more with the hobby but require simple to follow Tutorials like this. I have many simple projects at home nearly all accomplished by following video tutorials and copying other 'wiser' individuals sketches and components.
Thank you.
Thanks for the feedback Andrew! Glad the video was helpful. I have plenty more beginner guide type videos coming out for the Pi, Home Assistant, ESP boards and 1 or 2 Arduino ones. Its just a case of finding the time :)
works with Raspberry Pi 3b+ - intel ssd 600p series 256gb and LC-M2-C-NVME-2X2 (External USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 aluminium enclosure for a NVMe M.2 SSD)
you just need to make Imag with "Raspberry Pi Images" ,restart windows to see it on ssd,pik it in Raspberry Pi 3b+ wait for 10 min. and it works
Great step-by-step tutorial. I'd been holding off attempting the SD to SSD for an existing HA installation, now it's running on SSD and so much faster. I lost History as well.
Hey Mark. Just wanted to say that this is a great video. I've been wanting to start a smart house for a while now, and your tutorials are helping quite a lot. I just wanted to note that recently raspberry changed the way you log into pi. The user/password is no longer "pi/raspberry". Now you have to change it when installing it with pi imager. There's a config button on the bottom right corner (there's even an option to allow ssh now). Hope it helps :)
Heya! Thanks for sharing. I was aware I just haven't updated this tutorial in a while. Some of the newer versions I did of this feature the new Pi imager, but not the new admin password. I will pin your comment for others incase anyone gets stuck :)
Well done Sir! I've watched numerous iterations and your production provided the best coverage. My system is now functional with a new M.2 and room to grow. And I did subscribe. Best wishes... from Orlando!
Glad you got it working. Thank you for the feedback! :)
maybe im just overthinking stuff, but since i did all the changes to the config etc, and THEN removed the sd-card, how is everything carried over to the raspberry setup i have on my ssd?
Thanks, I got HA within 2 hours UAR again with the latest snapshot, followed your tutorial. ( didn't lost my history)
Glad to have helped :)
Hi, very good tutorial, but i would like to ask if somebody face problem with sleeping SSD. HA working while like 2-6 hours and then i am not able to connect to HA and need hard reset.
Hi, followed your steps but have an issue with booting from SSD error2, any inputs ?
The HA download page no longer exists, it now prompts you to enter a url directly into etcher.
Thanks for the update :) I will be updating this guide soon and will be sure to make use of the new links.
@John Doudar the URL provided for Etcher is the link to the download. Copy that into your browser and your download will start. :-)
Got my database destroyed after upgrading which you also show in the video!
Does this usually happen? After deletion, everything works again but historical value is gone. Is there a bug in the snapshot recovery.
Why does the lsblk command not work in HA, is there any other way to check the partitions via SSH and terminal?
Thanks for a great video.
same problem here, no history anymore
just updated the " core' to core-2021.3.0 and now it's oke.
great vid btw
Probably a stupid question but do you have to unzip three HA image first? Or does Pi Imager do that as well?
Pi imager can do it. You can download the file and point at it 👍🏻
@@MarkWattTech thanks for the quick reply. I'm going to be ordering some stuff this afternoon it looks like. Along with a new power supply. I keep getting yelled at in the HA logs about my pi power status
@@oldcrazyeye6482 Awesome :) I would recommend the official Pi power supply, but there are plenty of other ones available :)
@@MarkWattTech so got all my parts in and set up. everything goes well until i try installing file editor and fail. heres the log, any ideas?
21-02-14 23:41:15 ERROR (SyncWorker_5) [supervisor.docker.interface] Can't install homeassistant/aarch64-hassio-supervisor:2021.02.9 -> 404 Client Error for http+docker://localhost/v1.40/images/homeassistant/aarch64-hassio-supervisor:2021.02.9/json: Not Found ("no such image: homeassistant/aarch64-hassio-supervisor:2021.02.9: No such image: homeassistant/aarch64-hassio-supervisor:2021.02.9").
21-02-14 23:41:15 ERROR (MainThread) [supervisor.supervisor] Update of Supervisor failed!
21-02-14 23:44:42 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.jobs] 'AddonManager.install' blocked from execution, system is not healthy
@@oldcrazyeye6482 have you managed to get it installed now?
Subscribed! Thanks for the video mate. Very well put together and easy to follow :)
Welcome aboard! 😁. Plenty more to come.
I followed this guide, but just to make sure my USB3 to SATA adapter is compatible I am using 2.5inch hdd to boot up hassio. It went perfect!
After few days of use, and has no issues running it I decided to purchase 256GB SSD, and this time Im having issues booting to it.
Same USB to sata enclosure, only swapping the HDD to SSD my rpi4 having hard time booting up from SSD. What did I do wrong? Swapping back to HDD then I can boot hassio fine. I re downloading the hassio install image twice, reinstalling balena etcher, reflashing the image to SSD multiple times, all no luck.
What did I missed? hmmm
Hey! Also check that your SSD is in the compatible list. There have been a few SSDs that the Pi has been funny with.
@@MarkWattTech thanks for replying :) it turns out it seems my usb3 to sata adapter is not compatible when connected to ssd drive. Something related with UASP or something. When I connect to the USB2 port, the RPI4 can boot it fine, it seems UASP only enabled when connected using USB3. Perhaps UASP also not enabled when connected to HDD even connected to USB3 port.
I ordered another USB enclosure and hopefully it will be fully compatible :)
@@chocoicecream cheers for the update. Hopefully you have more luck with your mew enclosure.
@@MarkWattTech just an update. the new enclosure just arrived and works without any issues :)
@@chocoicecream awesome! Thanks for the follow up. Good for anyone else having similar issue to see.
Good tutorial and very easy to follow step by step. But I‘m wondering why you do all the raspberry OS configuration stuff when you‘re only interested in setting it to boot from USB and use HassIO from this point on?
Thanks Alex. In order for the USB stuff to work, we need to make sure the EEPROM is up to date on the Pi (in order to be able to boot into HA). There are several ways of doing this, I just chose this method for the video.
Oh! I see.. thx for the quick explanation!
Great tutorials. I have been following along. Got a 8GB Rpi 4 running on my SSD with the StarTech usb connection etc.. However.. It crashes multiple times a day requiring me to turn the pi off and on again. Any ideas?
Just got round to the comments sorry Alex. I think I have replied via my Facebook group, unless you have a twin ;)
cheers.
I walked every step, but can`t open HA. If i unplug the SD and plugin the SSD the green led is constantly flickering really fast. What does that mean? Try to run the Pi4 8GB with a Samsung 860 EVO SSD. Can`t reach the PI too after only the SSD plugged.
Found it, had an usb hub with his own power supply to make it work. So The Evo is an energy hungry one.
I would have asked you what PSU you where using, but glad you figured it out :D Thanks for sharing.
@@MarkWattTech it is a 2A one
Is there a way to install home assistant on the raspberry pi and still use it. As I've bought a pi4 and would like to use it for projects aswell amd to learn coding and so forth. I've heard of hasbien but as far as I'm aware this is no longer any good. I've also heard of installing with dockers but I'm new and I don't have a clue what dockers are
Hey Peter. You can yes, to do this you would need to use a different home assistant installation method. In his video I use the Home Assistant OS install. You could use the Home Assistant Supervised method which would allow you to say run Pi OS and do all your normal desktopy bits and have HA run in the background.
I currently don’t have a video out for this install but it is on my todo list.
Have a look into the Supervised method :)
@@MarkWattTech thanks a tonne I'll look into this first chance I get
@@MarkWattTech I’d be interested in this too!
@@Den-iw7jg it’s on the list 😁
Question, versus installing an image of HomeAssistant to the SSD, what happens if I install an image of my current HA configuration to the SSD? Or is it better to install a fresh version of HA and restore via sanpshot?
I always like to do a clean install then pull the snapshot through :) I have a video on this if your interested.
@@MarkWattTech I'll check out the video, assuming it is on your channel. Have a M2. SSD sata drive coming later in the week. Thanks for the reply.
Thank you for a terrific video. Question - once you are running on Home Assistant, is it possible to get back to the raspberrypi configuration? I do not seem to be able to do so.
Hey Stephen.
I don’t think you can from the Home Assistant OS. If your booting into Home Assistant OS like in this video from an SSD you wont be able to. If you unplug the SSD and put in the SD card you will be able to access the config again. Then make any changes and switch back to your SSD.
@@MarkWattTech Thank you. That is what I was thinking.
Hi Mark
I did al those steps have the same hardware but its not booting op from SSD i have used a USB power supply but still not booting up i have wait for more than 10 minuts but no boot up, if i put the SD-card back it boots up and HA is running What im doing wrong here.
What power supply are you using? If the Pi needs more power with an SSD.
Cheers,
Mark
@@MarkWattTech The originale power supply but i orderd a 5 Amp to be sure that`s not the problem.
Have you used the new one or still waiting on it?
@@MarkWattTech still waiting it will come on 2 juni with the postman i hope.
@@MarkWattTech I have a sper 5 Amp and just that and its running the backup now so its the power supply from 3 Amp that was giving me a hardtime, Thanx for the support!!!!
Thank you for your useful video, it helped me a lot to migrate my Home Assistant from a Raspberry Pi Model 3B+ to a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB. I ran into a couple of problems though: using the CMD.exe to create a blank ssh file would not work unless I ran it in administrator mode. Also, trying to restore a snapshot from the Home Assistant setup screen wouldn’t work so I configured a minimum Home Assistant install then used the Snapshot section of the Supervisor to restore the system. That worked great. By the way, I used an Inland 2.5” case containing an Intel 240GB SSD with a USB 3.0 interface and it worked without any hassle at all.
So clear and informative and helpful. Do we able to boot from sd card if we want to revert !
Yes, absolutely!
Hi, Thanks for this video! I did make the transfer yesterday. I worked well, just one issue. I have some Xiaomi and Aqara devices that are not reconnecting. Even when I try adding new devices on my conbee 2 (ZHA), impossible to find devices. Even a new device, not yet installed before is not found. Any idee? Thanks
Hey Dirk. Did you manage to solve your issue? How is your Conbee connected? A common issue is that the conbee can suffer from interference from sata and ssd connection. Using a usb extension cable is recommended and will resolve this issue. Cheers
@@MarkWattTech Hi Mark, after 2 days i did reboot and after rebooting, it took several hours before it finds all devices, but everything works fine now ! Thanks !
Hey Dirk. Glad to hear it all worked out in the end (sorry for the delay in getting back to you!)
Maybe a silly question, but, is it safe to do this on a Raspberry Pi that just came right out of the box? Or do i first have to setup the pi?
As long as the Pi4 has the eeprom updated you should be good to go. The eeprom update is needed to allow for USB booting.
Hi, thanks for sharing your knowledge and congratulations on the video.
I have a question: is the procedure exactly the same for installing the H.A. on a pendrive or is there something else to consider? Thank you very much
I’m assuming by pendrive you’re also referring to a flash drive as one in the same. They have similar characteristics to the SD card in terms of reliability and longevity. I’d go with a legit SSD if you can as it’ll be better. Answering your question though, it should be the same process.
Hi Mark,
Thanks for the tutorial, but unfortunately I've a problem. I can't connect to the pi via SSH. It always says the password is incorrect!
What can it be?
Thank you
when you load the image with raspberry pi imager you need to click on the settings button (looks like a gear) and select enable ssh and enter the password you want to log in with.
Thanks for this guide. It worked for me! Now, how to get the PI4 off the wired ethernet connection and onto wifi?
Hey Derek.
Glad it worked for you. If you open the supervisor tab there is a section there for host. In that section you will see your IP address. Press change me and it will open your network settings. You can then switch from ETH0 to WLAN0. When you choose WLAN0 you will get the option to scan for an access point and connect to your WiFi.
Give me a shout if you need anything :)
@@MarkWattTech Thanks, I found that after trying a few dated search results.
I'm buying a Raspberry Pi4b 8gb second hand tomorrow which comes in a case, with Micro SD and a 128 SSD - I'm hoping to follow this video to get started - however I don't have Windows. Can this be achieved on a Chromebook?
It can yes :)
@@MarkWattTech Thanks Mark. Do you have a guide for this? Or can anyone kindly point me in the right direction? The Raspberry Pi Imager doesnt seem to have a version for Chrome OS and the nearest option is Ubuntu.
Hey Chris, sorry I should have given a little more detail. With Chrome OS you will need to use something like Chrome Recovery tools or Linux tools. It is a bit of a faf with Chrome OS being restrictive. I'm sure there was a version of balaena etcher being created for Chrome OS (or a way to run it) which is a similar imaging tool.
Thanks for your help Mark. Great channel and very informative.
Ok, I'm getting there with this. If anyone is interested in installing using a Chromebook:
1. Download the Raspberry Pi image.
2. Download Wicked Good Archiver Chrome extension. Try to unpack the download with this.
3. Download Zarchive - unpack the image file with this.
4. Use Zarchive to repackage as a Zip file
5. Use Chrome recovery tool to write the Zip to the sd card.
6. Doesn't seem to work, borrow a Windows laptop and burn using Balena Etcher and follow the steps in one of Mark's videos instead. :)
@@chrissimpson1695 thanks Chris, and thanks for taking the time to share your process 👌🏻
I am using a Netac Z Slim 250GB SSD. And HomeAssistant won't turn on - just a black screen, even if you wait an hour, Raspberry pinges from the Windows console. At the same time, Raspberry OS is launched from the SSD and works stable. Loader on Raspberry from January 2021, HASSIO 5.10. What can be wrong? HASSIO is recorded through both ways - Raspberry Imager and balenaEtcher. I also tried USB 2.0 & USB 3.0 (
Works, but ONLY with 64 bit version
@@IceIceJuice I had the exact same problem! Thanks for the solution :)
Hey! Sorry for the super late reply. Your comment was held in "held for review" but didn't actually show up. So only just seen it. Glad you sorted your issue though :)
To create a blank file you can also run:- touch ssh
In the newest version of Pi Imager theres an option to create the SSH and Wpa_Supplicant files 😁. Be a huge time saver.
When I flash the sd card using the PI imager and it all finishes nicely I cannot see the "Boot" drive. I have pulled out the SD card and re-inserted it but only to see a few files. I used teh 64K version to flash the SD card.
Hence I cannot add the SSH file.
I tried the SD card anyway in the Pi 4B and it installed. If I try a SSH connection it refuses my attempt.
What could be wrong.
If you're doing it wireless, need to write the configuration to the ssh file. Can find out more at raspberry or UTube search.
Had the same issue. Use windows "disk managment" to assign the boot partition a drive letter. It will then show.
Hi Neil! Sorry for the super late reply. Sometimes my comments are held "for review" but don't actually show up so only just seen this. I imagine you have resolved your issue by now.
In the newest version of the Pi Imager theres an option to create the SSH file and WPA_Supplicant file which will make things super easy when setting up Pi's.
Cheers! And sorry again
Great video Mark. I did notice that you are installing the 32-bit OS, but the 64-bit HA image. Have you been running this way successfully or was this an oversight? I I recall, not that long ago the 32-bit version of HA was recommended because some addons has issues under the 64-bit.... has that been resolved?
Also, can you provide some deals on setting up a static IP? I have no issue getting this working on the SD card, but I have not been successful with the version on the SSD.
So we use the 32bit Pi OS just to make changes to the Pi before we load on the 64bit HA image. There are a few different ways to make changes to the Pi’s epRom but this is just the method I chose for the video. The Pi image is only used for this step (you could use any).
Since the big 1.0 update HA now recommend the 64bit image. There is details about this on the image installation page :)
Are you struggling to connect to your Pi on your network?
@@MarkWattTech No, I have it up and running thanks to your instructions. I did have a lot of problems flashing my sd card, it kept telling me that my card was corrupt. I ended up using balenaEtcher in the end. I am still struggling to understand one thing though. We flash the SD card with the Rp OS, then we flash the SSD drive with HA plus the OS. However, we then go through all the trouble of updating the OS on the SD card only to stop using it. I suspect at some point I will need to update the OS on the SSD card. Is there a separate procedure for updating the OS on the SSD or does that happen with HA updates?
Also. I am having a problem with my Nortek z-wave USB stick and maybe you know the answer to this..... why do people talk about doing a factory reset on their z-wave USB sticks? Is the z-wave database or other information actually stored on the sticks or is it to bring better support for z-wave devices?
Lastly, my main concern right now is that my HA instance is using DHCP. I am going to want to set up a static IP, but I just haven't got that far yet. Maybe this is something you could consider walking through in future videos?
Cheers!
Kevin
Hai Mark, thanks for you great vids! I have 1 question. I install on the sd card the raspberry software. Then you go to explorer and there you see your card with the 2 parts. But what i do i don't see nothing in my explorer in Win 10. Can you help me please. Thanks Frank
Hey Frank. Have you tried simply removing an reinserting the card? (Should just make it reappear) Windows may see it then. If not you will need to access the card via Disk Management in Windows 10. Cheers.
@@MarkWattTech Hi Mark, you are fast.... Thanks. I won't work for me, i see a lot of questions on the internet..... my search will go on. Cheers! Is it al ready your time? Thanks
@@directhouses838 I have created a new version of this video. Not sure if it will be of much help:
th-cam.com/video/HA1C1wgyJfI/w-d-xo.html
The new version of the Pi Imager allows you to auto generate the SSH file now (if thats the part your stuck on). Saves a few steps. I’ve not used it yet as it’s a new feature.
www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-imager-update-to-v1-6/
@@MarkWattTech Hi Mark. Man you are fast. I find finally the solution. You have to go to disc Management and there you have to give the section "boot" a drive letter. Click right on "boot" and there you can do that. I hope it helps others. Many thanks. I will buy a coffee or beer. Frank
@@directhouses838 Hey Frank, awesome thank you.
This is what I meant in my first suggestion. Sorry should have elaborated more! I will be sure to go into more detail on any issues like this etc in future videos 👍🏻. Glad you got it working. Happy Home Assistant-ing 😁
Hey, thanks for the guide. Everything worked fine until I unplugged my monitor... For some reasons my Raspberry won't start up anymore. I double checked by using the SD card and it worked perfectly. Any idea what could cause this issue? When I plug in the monitor after trying to boot from SSD I only see the Raspberry PI boot screen with a lot of errors.
Hey Christian. Have you managed to resolve your issue?
@@MarkWattTech Well, I think I found a solution by adjusting the /boot/config.txt (which in Home Assistant OS is located in /mnt/boot/config.txt). This was actually a lot of trial and error and it seems that a combination of specifying a framebuffer width and height, use hdmi_force_hotplug=1 and enable_uart=1 did the job. Important thing to note is, that this only works when you can ssh into the home assistant command line. It seems to be a known problem with Raspbian, and I found a lot of useful stuff in Raspberry forums. However as Homeassistant OS is quite different, there's not too much info out there. I really wonder, why it worked for you out of the box...
I am new to both raspberry pi and home assistant and I am having a hard time keeping the raspberry pi with home assistant connected to my network. All the ssh-commands is brand new for me. No other installation on TH-cam or the official installation of home assistant mention this. Could that be the reason that i just can't keep home assistant alive on the network for more than hours after the installation? Raspberry pi OS seems like it is stable and remains connected.
Hey Jonas. What power supply are you using for your Pi? And how have you got it connected up? (Wired / wireless).
@@MarkWattTech wired connection and a 5.1V 3A powersupply
@@jonasnystrom2707 hmm strange. I would have thought maybe it was a power issue but that should be fine for a Pi. Does the Pi stay on and its just losing it’s connection?
@@MarkWattTech Yes. The power is on and it just disapears from the network. I can not see the device when i scan my network for device and I can not access the ip adress home assistant had when it was connected.
I have now installed home assistant on a usb instead. I had a hard time booting from usb aswell. The problem was that i tried the 32 bit version. When i flashed the 64 bit version i could boot from usb and when it booted up it has been online without problems over night. Much longer than ever before. 👍
Probably is a dumb question, but I'm not getting the Pi to boot from the SSD yet. So when I flash the Hassos to the SSD, it reduces the 250GB drive to a mere 32MB. Is that normal, what happened to the other 249GB?
Hey Larry. When you flash the drive you should have a couple of partitions. When you boot into HA you will be able to see your current and available disk size and it should be the full amount.
@@MarkWattTech Thanks Matt. This helps me understand. And for the record I like it when you provide greater detail.
@doronazl its normal. Once you load HA it will take up the full available space.
Hi, I have followed your guide but used a Samsung 970 Plus NVMe - instead of running faster than the SD card, it is painfully slow with Home Assistant. Just opening the account took nearly an hour and adding each integration was around 40 min. What am I doing wrong? Im using a raspberry PI 4 8GB. I have the NVMe plugged into the top blue USB. Also the NVMe is running really hot in this case
M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure, Aluminum USB C 3.1 Gen 2 to M-Key M&B-Key NVMe PCIe 10Gbps External Enclosure, Fits 2230/2242/2260/2280 NVMe PCIe SSD, Tool-Fr
any help is much appreciated. Thank you in anticipation.
Hey Jonathan. Did you have any luck with your setup? What power supply are you using?
@@MarkWattTech Hello and thanks for asking. Upon adding an external power supply it now works. However, I’m now trying to configure a Deconz Raspbee II in HA. It’s just not recognising the device. A video on setting that up would be fantastic.
@@jonathanturner6819 Excellent :) glad to have helped. I have Conbee II and the Raspbee video on my todo pile 👍🏻
hi mark, i had follow your setup. i had found that the booting take a long time. what i had miss? defective cables, incompatible ssd?
Hey Lewis.
There seems to be only specific cables / adapters that are currently compatible with Home Assistant on SSD using the Pi. There's some information on this available here : community.home-assistant.io/t/installing-home-assistant-on-a-rpi-4b-8gb-with-ssd-boot/230948
One of the main issues people seem to be having are the cables and the power supplied to the Pi. If there's not enough power you may experience things like the slow booting.
@@MarkWattTech thanks buddy. I’ll try..
@@LEWISTAI give me a shout if your still stuck. And I will see if there's anything I can do to help :)
@@MarkWattTech yeah...! I will, but try not! lol... I’m adding the adapter to cart right now. Hope I can get it up ASAP. At the moment just run it on my sad card. Thanks for your speedy reply.
@@LEWISTAI In case it helps, I had a similar situation. I was using the Sabrent cable. It got a lot better after I ran the firmware update utility for the Sabrent cable, but I also grabbed a StarTech cable and haven't had an issue whatsoever since.
Note that the first-time boot up does take quite a while.
Great Video. Helped me a lot. Got a subscription. Thanks from Germany
Glad you found it useful 😁
Thank you - it’s working with an old laptop SSD in an eBay caddy. A heads up for others - my caddy only works (boots from) the rpi usb2 port not the blue usb3 one! If you try this install and it fails try the usb2 port. Regardless it is much faster than the micro SD 👍
I think this depends on which sata to USB 3 cable you are using. I have this working with USB3 on the Pi4.
Glad you got it working :)
Hello! Can you help me? When I put the rasp os in the sd card and init rasp pi appear this error "end kernel panic not syncing attempted to kill init exitcode=0x00000000b" what can i do?
Hey Hugo. Have you managed to resolve your issue?
@@MarkWattTech i think that is a problem in my raspberry. I talk with assistance, and probably it will be replaced
@@huguitosilva1 ah thats a shame. At least they are sorting it for you. Hopefully you can get further when you get a new board :)
@@MarkWattTech now i have a new raspberry. In MobaXterm i have a problem, when i connect to raspberry pi appear an error: "Network error: Connection refused"
@@huguitosilva1 hey Hugo. Is this when you have entered the username and password? Or on initial connection? Cheers
Thanks for the perfect guide! You are the man!
Cheers Casper 👊🏻😁
Hi, great video. I am new in raspberry pi world. I got issue, after update raspberry, after last reboot my pi not working, I can't connect with it through MobaXterm(host does not exist). Do you know what is wrong?. Thanks
Are you connecting to it via host name or iP address? :)
@@MarkWattTech I tried both, I see pi in my network but can't connect to it. I changed Port which is least number of ip address with success. Pi made a lot of updates, it took about 25min.
Sorry, with out success.
pi is listed in my network but isn't active. Hopfully is not fried.
@@arturja2553 are you able to plug in a monitor? Are you trying to connect to Home Assistant or just SSH to the Pi?
Hi Mark, I did everything like in your Video und everything has worked, but i cant get into Homeassistant. Have fix IP, the Pi is flashing the green LED every 2 Seconds, my SSD is blinking but Homeassistant did not start. I have done everything with your Video, USB Boot, eeprom update, i got same Version as you, everythings the same... any Idea how to fix that ? Thank You.
Hey there.
do you manage to access your home assistant instance at all (Does the Home Assistant page appear) when you visit your Pi's local address or homeassistant.local:8123
Do you get any error page back?
@@MarkWattTech For now I tried more times. I opened my Router and the IP was xxx.2 but on my last pi 3 Installation it was xxx.100, maybe this was a Problem after I opened my Backup again. So I did flash the SSD again to reset everything and gave the Pi4 the old IP xxx.100 at my Router Menu. This Time the Pi4 iss prepairing HA on SD, after this is finished I will try again from SSD... I dont know. My feeling iss that the SSD iss slower. But it can do 300-500MB/s, so maybe only a feeling... i try again after HA has finished on SD and be back in time...
@@MarkWattTech After restoring my FULL Backup from my Pi3 i get something like "Onboarding fault", so i will try it again... should i uncheck something from the old backup maybe ?!
@@MarkWattTech After some hours of trying, maybe you have an Idea Mark. I tried to boot from SSD and one Time it worked, but after restoring my Backup some Add-Ons wont work and it runs unstable. Now I restored my Backup at the same new installation on SD without Problems. So for now I run it on Pi 4 8GB, with 32gb microSD Card. I cant get it running on SSD and also booting on SSD takes 10 times longer then on SD, I dont know why. Its a bit confusing for me now...
@@mrkus21 hey! If you do a fresh install on the SSD does that work okay or is it taking a long time still? The SSD should be really quick. Which image of Home Assistant are you using?
Great video. Are the steps the same if using a Mac?
Pretty much yeah :) with the newer versions of Pi Imager you can actually generate the ssh files and do those other bits :)
@@MarkWattTech how to generate ssh file from Mac? Same command or the file already exist in raspberry pi new versions?
@@MuhammadUmarMeo in mac you can just create a new file and call it .ssh.
If you use the new version of Pi imager there is actually an option to generate and ssh file via pi imager :)
Is it possible to install Raspberry pi 8GB supervised Home Assistant with SSD?
Hey you can do this yes. The Supervised installs are on my video todo list.
Merci pour le tuto, quelques problème lors du login & passeword non reconnu via la connection ssh ma fait refaire la manip plusieurs fois, mais maintenant j'utilise mon Msata en usb, pour eviter de cramer de la carte SD, au top
Hiiii... you did an excellent tutorial ... Congratulations. But I was unable to turn the Home Assistant in my Raspberry PI4 running 4Gb 128Gb SSD M.2 by USB3.0. Help me
Hey Leandro. Which part are you stuck on? I created a newer video of this vid which you may find helpful as it is a little more detailed.
@@MarkWattTech Hi Mark... I have reviewed all the steps and discovered that I was not betting on ip port :8123. I am a noob :( :(. Now is working perfectly. Thanks for your tutorial and your willingness to help
Really appreciated this detailed video. Great for a HA newbie. Followed your instructions and get everything going on an SSD without any issues at all. Great!
Glad it helped you David :) there will be more content to come!
@@MarkWattTech Looking forward to it!
Great video, to bad it took me 2 days to get it working ;)
Bought 2 different usb to sata adapters, no solution.
My rasperry pi adapter has 5A power supply, but to be sure i also used a usb hub with external power supply for the SSD, still no result.
Finally disassembled my portable hard drive with external power supply (0.8A) and mounted the ssd in it and voila, eureka.
Thanks. Great video and tutorial.
Thank you for your support :)
Any luck getting this to work with an NVMe drive?
Hey Tom. I haven't tried this yet. I'm waiting for an M.2 case to arrive and will give it a go when I get a sec. I'll be sure to post a video when I do. Cheers.
@@MarkWattTech Thanks ! and Good Luck when you do, let us know if you can!
The Pi4's have been able to boot to the NVMe's for a few months now... But HASSio seems to need a SATA drive.. so frustrating.
@@tomjones2860 I can confirm also from my side. I lose several hours to understand why HASSIO don't want boot from USB... at the end I tried to install Raspian OS on USB and it worked one first attempt. I hope that will be a solution with M.2 drive
@@scann73 There is a guy over at the HA forum that noted that HASSIO needs a certain level of firmware on the NVMe -> USB adapter. If the Firmware is above 2.00.09 then some (most?) drives and adapters seem to work... below that no luck. Pi OS does not have this limitation (again who knows why)
Hi Mark,
Great tutorial! I'm a beginner and it was perfect.
I followed all the steps but when I get to the part where I take out the sd card and plug in the ssd and head to the browser - nothing. The pi looks likes its booted up, all indicators look good but when I enter the IP address (or, homeassistant.local:8123), I get a 'can't reach, etc' message.
I had look down the comments and is sounds a bit like the problem mrk had back a month ago. But I'm getting nothing at all.
I when back and repeated the commands - I took particular care with the Advances Option items need the end and all looked good. Also afreshassos_rpi4-64-5.12.img.xz) and everything worked per the tutorial.
I have a Pi 4 Model B 2GB RAM; Pi oficial USB-c power supply, WD Green 240GB SSD, Startech SATA to USB cable | SATA III 6Gbps | 2.5" SSD or HDD | USB 3.0.
Grateful for any suggestions, I can't help thinking it must be something simple.
Sean
Hey Sean. So are you stuck trying to actually get HA to show up when your using the SSD?
@@MarkWattTech yes that’s it. Haven’t tried today - weekend project!
Hi Mark or any viewer, any thoughts on this problem? Thanks.
@@SeanSligo Hey Sean. I’m free this morning if you want to drop me a message on my Facebook page? I can try and assist you with troubleshooting if you want?
What format should the ssd be?
If you use the Pi imager it will do the formatting for you :)
@@MarkWattTech so it doesn’t matter if the ssd is formatted as NTSF, EXT3, etc?
@@BrummBilt no. The Pi imager should handle this when you flash the SSD.
Robert, depending on the Linux version you install on the RPi you will end up with two partitions on the SSD. So typically you may have:
- boot partition: VFAT. contains the boo-related config files and firmware (.ELF)
- root partition: EXT4. contains the data directories you are familiar with, like /home/pi
Great tutorial!!!
Thanks Kieran :)
Sensacional meu amigo ! Ótimo trabalho, obrigado por compartilhar seu conhecimento. Abraço
Excellent, thanks
Great content, but video quality sucks on first run, don't know why.
Hopefully you will see the improvements in my newer videos. I have been experimenting and moved away from that old 720p webcam. Thanks for the feedback.
Mark, have you done a crypto miner on Rpi yet? I would love to do one using ssh, Rpi4, ssd, etc. I don’t expect to make money with it to retire on…. I just want to do one. Thx.
I haven't yet. But a few people asked about creating one and tracking it in HA. I will add it to the projects list :P
I wonder if this method is officially supported. I think because of stability it's advisable to only move the data partition to the SSD using the dataclt command, while leaving the OS and boot patition on the SD card.
www.home-assistant.io/hassio/hassos_faq/
The devs for Home Assistant do recommend the dataclt version. A big issue with this ssd setup is that only particular sata to usb cables work. I may do a video on the dataclt version as one of my install videos.
I just use powershell for ssh.
Nice and simple 👌🏻😁
thank you :)
I have joined your channel please speak a bit slower but everything else is very good and no music thanks Bob in the UK
Sorry mate when I am looking for "HOW TO DO SOMETHING" it really gets irritating when the tutorial starts 3 minutes into the video. SO many videos looking for how to do something x 3 minutes it adds up.I hope you take this in the way it was intended.
Fair point. Ill be sure to move the rambles to the end :P
tried to follow it but to confusing for me sorry
Any particular part I can help you with? :)
@@MarkWattTech I have the Argon M.2 case with a SATA M.2 SSD in there. Can't I just clone the SD Card to the SSD and it should work?
@@JayzBeerz Heya! Didn’t see your reply sorry. Have you managed to resolve your issue?
@@MarkWattTech no i'll try again soon.
*inStall
Great vid nonetheless
It's literally been like that for months. Didn't even spot it :P
hi. I went through your way in mobaxtreme followed all the steps except (i didnt have sd card so i used a USB for raspberry image and flashed it) and then i powered up Rasberry pi and inserted the USB connected the ethernet to my router to Pi, but in mobaxtreme it says connection refused when i start an ssh client. Please help
For the Pi you will first need to enable USB booting else it wont work. If you check out some of my newer videos I show you how to do this is a simpler way. You will need an SD card to update the Pi’s boot loader order though.