Home Assistant Raspberry Pi 4 SSD Installation and Migration
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- Installing Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 with an SSD has never been easier! In this video I will show you how to migrate your Home Assistant installation from a Raspberry Pi 4 with an SD card to a brand new install on an SSD, this video is for people who want to do a brand new install of Home Assistant, and those who also want to migrate their old installation too!
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0:00 - Intro?
0:56 - Hardware recommendations
4:12 - Taking a backup for migration users
5:26 - Installing Home Assistant to the SSD
6:14 - Changing the Bootloader to boot USB
7:45 - Booting the Pi from SSD
8:00 - WiFi Setup
8:30 - Logging into Home Assistant UI for Setup
9:44 - Restoring your backup - Наука та технологія
Who is looking forward to more speed and reliability!? NO MORE BRICKED SD CARDS! 🙏
I've been following your channel for a while now and have taken the plunge to start with smarthome setups. Thanks for the great channel! However i'm following this guide - for a fresh new install on an SSD, and Raspberry Pi Imager is not showing my m2 sata storage as an option to image to. It's plugged directly into an m2 ssd slot in my pc. What am I doing wrong??
Thank you for great videos, you helped me a lot on different topic for Home Assistant. I just did the swap for a SSD and it went flawlessly. Cheers
Thank you for your very clear and easy to follow instructions. I was able to switch over to SSD in under 20 minutes.
Nice 🙏
Little behind on this one, but followed your tutorial and it went seamlessly. Thank you. Very informative and very simple to follow. Thank you.
Wow. Let's step away from Home Assistant for a second. This is perhaps THE MOST SUCCINCT, CLEAREST tutorial/walkthrough of a setup process that I have ever seen. You hit on ALL the major and minor issues (what kind of SSD, brands, form factors, adapters, necessary items like spare SD card, https), quickly and directly, without getting bogged down, you step through everything without skipping a beat or requiring guessing/intuiting, and you expertly drop people in and out at different steps and forks (new installation, ethernet/wifi steps, etc.).
I thought this video was masterfully done. I don't even have an SSD purchased for my Pi yet, but I now know exactly what I need to do and I may not even have to watch this video again as I perform the update.
Superb job, Lewis!
Very kind, thanks very much I really appreciate it and I'm glad it was useful
What a great tutorial! Thank you so much. My install went flawlessly.
Thanks Douglas, appreciate it! Glad it worked!
You are the BEST! Your videos are nicely edited and you include great details. You have helped me accomplish so much. Thank you!
Thanks my friend, really appreciate your kind words and glad they have been useful!
Excellent tutorial. I just migrated from an sd to an M.2. Everything went flawlessy. Thanks so much!
Nice one, well done!
Great video, SSD instalation will commence as soon as my adapter arrives!
Excellent, let me know how it goes 🙌
Thanks so much for this video. I've just migrated to an SSD I had lying around. All worked just as you showed here. Thanks again.
Excellent, glad it worked! Thanks for the comment
You rock! Followed this using suggested components and step-by step. Everything worked smoothly - thanks.
Amazing, glad it worked!
Revisiting this tutorial, and it is so good! Thank you so much! Love from Norway!
Thanks for the help. I was a little worried about doing this, but it all worked like you said.
Thanks for making me considerably more comfortable in migrating from my SD card to the M.2 SATA drive I'm finally going to install in my ArgonOne case Lewis 👍🏻
Nice one Rob, let us know how it goes!
@@EverythingSmartHome if it goes badly I'll be heading your direction for help 🤣
An excellent video, my previous SSD install could not be connected though WiFI which I need to do as it is for controlling a polytunnel in my field. Your instructions on how to connect to WiFi were perfect and solved the problem for me. There are quite a few UA-camrs creating content on Homeassistant but I am very impressed with your content and clarity of delivery. I am now a subscriber. THANKS!
Excellent Dave, thanks for the support and glad the videos were useful!
Man Thank You the case and ssd and instructions all worked perfectly
Thanks for the video! Worked flawlessly even without a monitor tied to the pi4. The backup and restore parts need updating but I managed through. Coffee coming.
Excellent as always. This is something I wanted to do for a while. This video gave me the incentive to finally do it. I ordered the hardware and will be on SSD soon. Thank.
Nice, let us know how it goes! 🙌
@@EverythingSmartHome so far no joy! The image went perfectly and system booted ok but I have no add on repository so I can’t load ssh. My snapshot is too large so I can’t restore through the GUI. I’m back to the SD to make a smaller snapshot to try again. .
Got it! I restored from my previous full backup and then the partials. Now up and running on SSD!
Nice one glad you got it figured out! 🥳
Really great video! Amazing recommendations.
I got the Argos case you recommended and the Kingston SSD. Did the installation and migration, and everything has worked like a charm!
THANK YOU!
🙌🙌
what did you do about the fan control?
Great guide on moving to a SSD. I have been having issues. The snapshots is now called backups but other than that very easy to follow.
Thanks!
Thanx!
In 1 hour I've manage to go from an old Pi3b to a brand new Pi4 with an old Intel SSD from my latest snapshot.
A lot snappier
Thats awesome! 🙌
Incredible timing, popped up in my feed just as I was taking a break from unboxing my SSD and adapter i ordered a week ago for my rPi upgrade! Really informative yet simple and short. I should have no issues changing from normal PiOS with Docker HA to Home Assistant OS now :P
Wow that is amazing timing haha! How did it go?!
@@EverythingSmartHome I’ve sadly run into a interesting snag, my Surface keeps crashing trying to format the SD card! I vaguely remember having issues formatting it in the past, and I think it might just take a couple more tries. But otherwise things seem to be going smooth!
@@EverythingSmartHome Sadly it is not going too well. after fixing the SD card issue, I found out thet my Pi does not see my SSD as a bootable media. It tries to boot via the USB, but says there is no bootable partition. I am a but stumped as to what or why this is.
Did you use Pi imager to flash the SSD? Perhaps your usb to data cable isn't compatible?
@@EverythingSmartHome I did use the Pi images yes, and the drive does show up in Windows. I did test with an old USB stick just to very that it works, in it did boot just fine. So the issue must be either the disk itself or the adapter. I am leaning more towards the adapter, as I have not been able to use the eject function to disconnect it in windows
Thanks! Successful migration from Pi 3 to Pi 4 and to SSD!
Awesome!
Thanks Lewis. Just started HA and (following your advice (and links)) have just installed my Pi into an Argon one unit with 120gb kingston ssd.
One thing you dont say is the word "patience" after installing your backup. I'm got so worried after my installed first reported that supervisor needed me to manually update (for me anyway) before my backup would actually work... and it seemed to take an eternity.
BUT utlimately its working and is in a sexy case (not the orginal red/white one) and seems to be a bit faster (but that might be the "patience" I was lacking earlier), Thanks!
Great walk through, thank you, i'd got the hardware so the guide was really useful.
Amazing, glad it was useful!
Great job man, excellent, congratulations!
Thanks buddy!
Thank you for your lecture.
You makes my rasberry pi to boot using SSD
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for a nice and well planned video :)
Thanks for watching!
Thank you! This was a great walk through.
Glad it was useful 🙏
Thumbs up for the Argon One M.2 case. I’ve been running HA in that case with a Samsung SSD for about 6 months. Works great.
That's excellent! Thanks for sharing your experience!
Hi you,
Thank you so much for clear, precise and structure tutorials. I watched many of them, but for clarity, I’m always returning to you. I’ll stop cheating and stay here :-)
I did many installations oh HA but there is one thing I can’t understand, they are multimedia output such as Spotify, for instance. I just can’t make it to work and I can’t recall if you made one on it, I think it would helpful (for me) :-)
Have a great day
Excellent video. Saved my day. Thanks
Glad it was useful!
I’ve been waiting for this video
Hope it's useful!
@@EverythingSmartHome when opening my HA app it just displays white.. does that mean my SD card went out?
Watched to the end for the algorithm ;)
Thanks for this, Lewis - extremely helpful. The only additional info / advice I'd offer is that the final stage, restoring from backup and rebooting, can take 10-15 minutes.
I was sitting here chewing my nails, watching the blinkinglighten, with no Plan B but just waiting for that time turned out to be the answer!
Really pleased to complete this task and your instructions and links were super-helpful - thanks!
Glad it was useful and you managed to get through that difficult period - bet the suspense was killing you!!
😁
Thank you, I'd been wanting to do this for a while and this was a breeze. I went with a cheap entry-level NVME drive and an Orico M2PV-C3 enclosure. I picked the Patriot P310 drive because it was a brand and importantly because of its low advertised power consumption (2.38W full, 0.38W idle) so I do not need a USB hub. No issues booting and updating home assistant. Will report if I run into issues.
Good video, thank you!
Thank you, appreciate it!
thanks for this, followed the directions and worked well! seems more zippy too!
Thank you. It was vey enjoyable.
Cheers David!
thanks man! Great tutorial. I faced an issue with Raspberry Pi Imager: I got always an error while writing image, so I tried with balenaetcher - failed again - and I came back to Raspberry Pi Imager and I finally got it working! :-) hope this can help
Super video. Thanks so much.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for this super tutorial
Thanks for watching!
Awesome vid. Thank you
Thanks Glenn, appreciate you!
Amazing tutorial! I have followed it carefully and I think I managed to migrate to my Samsung Evo M.2 SSD, which has been sitting around for a long time, doing nothing (I am still in the process of restoring backup while writing this, hopefully it will work). So far so good, Boot changed to USB, SSD booted successfully, new HA set up in seconds and now restoring previously created backup…. Loading….
I've been sat here for 11 months just waiting to see if the restore was successful. Your drive is sooo slow ...
The "Raspberry Pi Imager" is awesome. It didn't exist back when I was last using Pi's.
Yep it's a fairly new addition!
This is actually a really good wake though to setup home assistant
Great video!
My man Lucas 🙏
Thank you! that was easy, hard part ahead I guess :D
Thanks Peter!
Imagije having a SSD just laying around... 😆
Great video though, just what I was looking for!
Hahaha just found it 🤷♂️ thank you, appreciate it!
Great Video!
Thanks Jack!
Hi! Another great video. One suggestion, talk about how to purge old datas from the database
Thanks Manoel!
I installed it on SSD, but it wouldn't start without a microSD card. Most of the time, when I restarted, the system would not boot. I finally got it done, thank you very much.🙏
All went pretty well except HA wasn't able to load the .tar backup file. So I quickly install Samba and drop the file in the backup folder. It did work! Thanks again for the video!
Nice one, thanks!
I like the Deskpi pro. Everything is accessible outside the case and the heatsink is great especially if you overclock it.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Another great video! What about a tutorial on trim installation (sd for boot and hassos + ssd for everything else)?
Thanks Matteo! Will have a look thanks!
Great tutorial! I've just purchased a HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Mini SFF and hoping to migrate HA to this. I'm starting to find the Pi 4 SSD setup, which I've now had for over a year, lags sometimes and is becoming slow at times, especially when loading energy sensors. Looking at using Frigate and some other add-ons so I'm hoping the additional CPU power and additional RAM will make a difference!
Awesome, good luck!
Thanks for the info
Cheers Robert!
thank you brother :)
Glad it was useful!
Thanx for this clear video! My installation went flawless with this absolutely perfect set of instructions. Nowadays I have a Raspberry Pi 5 laying around waiting to take the work-load of the fine Pi 4. The only question from me is how do I go about and solve this task ?... Migrate Hass OS from a Pi 4 SSD to the Pi 5 (using the same SSD that is)
Would love to see a Magic Mirror Installation and setup video😄
One day one day 😅
@@EverythingSmartHome Waiting ✌🏼😁
Please make a node red tutorial! Thank you, you are the best!
Thanks my friend, appreciate it!
Another great video, I've learned a ton from you. Regarding SSD, I may have missed it in the video but you may want to specifically mention to use 64-bit HA. I tried unsuccessfully with multiple SSDs, cables, etc and couldn't get mine to boot from the SSD until I changed to 64-bit HA. Oddly, I *could* boot fine with Raspberry Pi OS if I flashed the SSD with that instead of HA.
Thanks Gary, glad you enjoy the videos! Hmm, I haven't had that issue with 64 bit myself so could be something else? But regardless the Pi Imager should take care of that for you!
Perhaps the Pi4 8GB?
@@thomastaberima3971 problem identified. It was my eero mesh router. Bypassed it and went directly to my ISP router and everything worked perfectly
For those who may encouter problems while booting on the SSD without the card: I've been lucky enough to purchase 2 different USB to SATA cable. I've been trying for half an hour to get the rasb booting. So I tried the other cable. It worked instantly.
thank you!!!
Came back for a refresher. Ironically this was done originally to avoid bricked SD's.. well the latest Home Assistant OS update killed my SSD lol! So here we are.
Thank you!
Thanks!
If after migration to the SSD and restoring the backup, you find that all the Add-ons are grayed out, go to Settings/System/Hardware and peroform a system reboot. That fixed it for me.
I did try a few SSD to USB 3.0 adapters and I got only errors. I bought Argon ONE M.2 and works from first time. Thank you for your support.
Awesome! Glad I could help
Thanks!!
Thanks Marcos!
@@EverythingSmartHome Hey Lewis! I got mine working here with a SSD, but only trough the 2.0 usb port. Any ideia why this might be happening? I believe it might be the Sata to USB adapter. While using the 3.0 port I can only see a black screen, no logs...
My power supply can output enough power and my adapter is labeled to support usb 3.0.
Thanks for the awesome videos. I can't help but batch watch them :-) Question if I may: I have been running HA for a year on my Synology NAS with InfluxDB and Grafana via Docker images. Seemingly though every time a HA update comes out the whole pack of cards comes tumbling down. As such I've gone for a RPi4 4GB to host HA as I feel its a more supported platform than Synology. My Question now is... Do I run InfluxDB and Grafana on the Pi or on my Synology or a mix? I'm angling toward Influx DB on the NAS but I'm be interested to know your thoughts. Assuming of course that I follow this very video and the PI is running from a SSD what are your recommendations? ;-) Thanks in Advance.
Thank you for a great video. I successfully restored a backup to a SSD. Should it be a lot quicker than a SD card? ( I am running RspPI 4 8GB).
Hey can you do a video to setup the Argon One M.2 Fan control in Home Assistant please?
Excellent video, as usual! Any chance you could do a similar video on the Odroid N2+ (same as blue) ??
Thanks! Proceedure should be very similar, all you would need to do is a straight backup and restore
@@EverythingSmartHome So I use that pi program for changing things on the odroid?
Great video. Quick question, by adding home assistant this way, does that mean the Pi is solely for Home Assistant? As in Raspberry Pi OS will not be installed? I am looking at setting up Home Assistant and a Plex server off my Pi and am wondering if I install home assistant this way I will not be able to do both. Thank you!
Excellent guide, but I did have a problem with following the install. I keep getting the error 'Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/hassos-boot', and the same for hassos-data. I have disconnected the drive from the USB3 port and moved it to USB2 and it boots fine. Any ideas what would prevent it booting specifically from the USB3 port?
Hi Lewis - it would be great to see an update for the Pi 5 😊
Same process
Setting up DHCP reservations for your Raspberry PI (And other things) will make it keep the same IP and you don't have to setup the IP addresses every time you re-flash.
In my case works from external HDD, but not from SSD :=)
I have one SSD, put in external case with USB3, write image, all ok, but boot process reports many errors and wornings, mostly "wating for sync with some process". Then I placed this SSD into another USB case, and similar errors during boot.
Lastly I put HDD drive into same external case, and it works from first try :=)
Using old HDD is probably bad idea for performance, SD card might be better option?
Question about 2.5” to usb adaptors- the first in your link, is it the USB 3.0 or 3.1 option that you recommend? There’s a lot of comments about issues with some of the startech leads with RPi… I’ll be trying this project at the weekend…
Would a USB SSD drive like the Samsung T5 work for this? Great video!
Finally getting around to migrating. Looks like HA site now recommends using Balena Etcher and entering the URL they provide. The RPi Imager wants to install an old version 6.2 and the HA link is for 6.6 (32 or 64 bit, rp3 or rp4). I know there shouldn't be any performance differences for the 2 or 4 GB RP with the 64bit OS, but maybe worthwhile for future hardware upgrade?
Either or works, it's simple to update after anyways!
It appears that the fan isn't on for the Argon one after migration. How can we verify? Thank you!
What are your thoughts about the ssd power consumption? The rpi can only provide up to 1.2amp through usb, which might not be enough for peak usage
I ordered the Argon case and an m.2 SSD, but forgot the usb cable. I’m now trying to figure out if I could use the Pi with something like Raspbian to write HA to the SSD.
I'm not sure if I should get a Raspberry Pi 4 or try and wake up an old laptop. Now I'm running HA on my main computer in a VirtualBox, but I want my computer free from 24/7 stuff. I'm installing a Unify network so I will be able to power the Pi 4 with my switch over PoE so it should be a clean installation with an Argon sitting nicely on the wall beside the router and downstairs switch. Ahh, being a geek sure creates some hard decision-making normal people don't have to experience😂
Make sure that you have a Log2ram functionality to make the sdcard last long(er)
Yes, the migration is very easy, BUT be careful: The SSD/USB3 interference with the ConBeeII, so that my Zigbee network doesn't work :( the solution is a simple USB cable to keep distance between RPi4 and the ConBeeII. Now it works fine and fast! Thanks a lot :)
Looking to start fresh, ordered new 8gb ram pi 4 and the argon case. Going to get a 128gb m.2 NVMe SSD for it and it's to be used as a home assistant hub. I can to this all fresh right? Without installing from the SD first?
The video is two years old now. I guess the process is mostly the same. But I'm new to Home Assistant and don't see the supervisor in my current installation. Is this the same as under Settings > Backups?
Hi there. Very nice tutorial! Do you know how to activate fan feature of the Argon One while running HA (installed from HA OS)?
Finally found the solution. For those who are interested: community.home-assistant.io/t/argon-one-active-cooling-addon/262598
When I plugged in SSD to win11 to flash home assistant image it resulted in error writing message. Had to right click start>disk management> then this utility asked me to select gpt or MBR before disk could be used. Pi imager worked fine after selecting MBR. Hope this helps someone. Great vid, thanks 👍👍👍
again, thanks for your channel :)
can you maybe explain how to add a internal hdd (proxmox).... i am running out of space :/ today my HA reached limit and does weird stuff... but i cant find a tuturial how to add a second hdd... i would prefer use the os on my ssd and use a hdd fpr data (frigate and influxdb) is this possible?
Excellent as always. Is this 64 bit? Will a previous 32 bit install still migrate ok?
Should be no issues in theory but like I mention just keep a hold of your SD card toll you restored! And thanks!
So if I’m using that one case that has a built-in SSD, I just do a USB to USB cord and plug it directly into the computer that way to load home assistant to SSD?
help me a lot, just a minor headache... my usb sata adaptor finally works on legacy usb port on PI, so doesnt work with 3.0 usb port, extrange... but is working thanks
Hello thank you so much for the video.
Would you also be so kind to explain or even better, create a video explaining, how we can use an SSD with ext4 (or NTFS) file format to boot and install OS on?
As far as I know the imager currently converts the main boot partition to FAT32. Is there a way to flash OS drives with in Raspberry Pi OS with and option to select file format?
I really would like to set my "first" pi on an SSD which is using ext4 (or NTFS or at least ExFat at the very least). I would like to install the OS on an ext4 drive and boot from it for the most resilient setup, before I even delve into the Pi world wormhole.
Would really appreciate any comment, help or guidance from you.
That seems to be easy, amazing :). Did you had a chance to 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?
Thanks! I have not tried those yet no! Maybe one day
do you need to do anything to configure the fan on the Argon one or does it works straight out of the box?
If I do a migration like this, will the backup/snapshot also restore the config for my Z-wave and Zigbee sticks from the HomeAssistant OS? I want to make sure I don't lose those as they were a bit of a pain to configure the first time.
Just as a matter of interest, different away from the subject matter. I would very much like to know what your home network consists of. I feel sure your HA isn't just working off/from a run of the mill ISP home hub?