Installing Home Assistant on older Raspberry Pi (2) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by iMike@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I’m running 5.13 on RPi 2 and I think it’s time to finally update, I only use it for lightbulbs and motion sensors really and it’s running fine aparto from not being able to make a backup and update via the GUI. I think it’s best to just make a fresh install, I’m going through the setup and I can only choose Home Assistant OS 10.3 (RPi 3) - can I choose this to install on my RPi 2?

Update: I think I found a proper release for RPi 2 here: https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases haos_rpi2-10.4.img.xz

Do I just install it using RPi Imager and then selecting custom img?

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[-] n0xew@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~I'm guessing you were in a Home Assistant core installation?~~ EDIT: Just saw that it's supervised as well. I'm not sure why you can't update it from the web ui?

I've been using a RPI 2B in a Home Assistant Supervised installation for the past two years with absolutely no problem. I can update it from the Web UI properly. The only things I noticed:

you sometime get a "unsupported hardware" notification that you can dismiss. Just keep in mind that since this isn't a "supported" platform, you shouldn't bother the devs with hardware related problems should you have any. As I said, I never had any problem and I'm running many addons/integrations.
I wonder if sometimes zigbee2mqtt may be slow due to the hardware. Nothing too problematic, but I might upgrade hardware in the future to check that

[-] iMike@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've been running that for about two years as well and it's been fine, but from some time it won't update and won't create a backup anymore... It says: "You are running an unsupported installation" and "Your installation is unhealthy". I think I looked into that a few months ago and it turned out there was some change and I'd have to update docker first, but then I've been reading that all your devices disappear, so I really don't have time to add all the light bulbs and motion sensors and switches and create blueprints from scratch... So I bought a new SD card and I'm planning to run a fresh install and then I copied the config folder via WinSCP and I'm hoping I can restore that as a backup.

[-] thatguy_ie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The Pi 2 only supports 32 bit operating systems while the Pi 3 and newer support 64 bit (aarch64) operating systems which is likely why they've separated the images.

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