HomeAssistant freezes after 24-48hrs of uptime - Pi4

[19_blackie_73]

Hello everyone,

I'm currently trying to get HomeAssitant running. I'm using a 4GB Pi4 in a argus neo case with a Sonoff Zigbee Dongle, original Pi USB C Power Supply and an Intenso 120GB SSD. I've set it up on Wednesday, and since then two times my sensors (atm only 2 aquara thermostats) first were unavailable and then the whole gui didn't do anything - you could go to the various pages, but he didn't react to anything pressed that triggers an action. Zigbee stick shows up as initializing, but can't complete that.

After removing power for a while, it will restart and you need to press reconfigure on the aquaras to work again.

I'm new to this whole stuff and a bit lost, googling didn't bring much to the table atm that sounds about right.

Probably worth mentioning, I had to retry 2 times to get homeassistant finally to boot after installation (had to do the whole Pi imager thing 3 times).
Are any components faulty, are there things to look out for, maybe misconfigured?

Things I'm currently investigating:

- integrated the Pi cpu temperature sensor, so far only 1-2°C difference between start of logging in the morning and now.

- maybe backup and reinstallation on an sd card for testing?

- other usb extension for the sonoff dongle

 

Thanks for any hints and tricks and tips.

 

 

EDIT: for reference, here's the temperature graph of the CPU - small creep:

[Kilrah]

26 minutes ago, 19_blackie_73 said:

Probably worth mentioning, I had to retry 2 times to get homeassistant finally to boot after installation (had to do the whole Pi imager thing 3 times).

Would try another SD card.

[19_blackie_73]

5 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Would try another SD card.

currently using an ssd, but yeah, will try it with an sd card as a next step

[Kilrah]

Oh missed that.

 

And you're using Home Assistant OS, right?

 

I've been using it on an official HA Yellow box with an SSD and I believe there was some trick required for SSD install, but don't remember...

[19_blackie_73]

13 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Oh missed that.

 

And you're using Home Assistant OS, right?

 

I've been using it on an official HA Yellow box with an SSD and I believe there was some trick required for SSD install, but don't remember...

yes, from the official Pi Imager.

 

AFAIK and I'Ve found out, you just have to insert a SD Card first with an image that tells the pi to boot from the usb / SSD. That's what I've done for now.
Using also an USB to SSD that was recommended by several HA / Pi Forums.

[Kilrah]

Yeah USB/SSD boot needs the RPi's EEPROM to be up to date, installing another basic Pi OS on a card then using that to update the EEPROM might help.

[19_blackie_73]

On 12/10/2023 at 5:03 PM, Kilrah said:

Yeah USB/SSD boot needs the RPi's EEPROM to be up to date, installing another basic Pi OS on a card then using that to update the EEPROM might help.

today it happened again early in the morning. I was able to grab some screenshots of the log, but wasn't able to download it:

 

 

 

in the log.1 file was only one entry:

 

2023-12-11 07:27:56.072 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection] [547463421120] Error handling message: length of value must be at least 1 for dictionary value @ data['statistic_ids']. Got [] (invalid_format) <me>  from 192.168.178.20 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Home Assistant/2023.7 (io.robbie.HomeAssistant; build:2023.471; iPadOS 16.6.0) Mobile/HomeAssistant, like Safari)
2023-12-11 07:29:18.409 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection] [547463421120] Error handling message: length of value must be at least 1 for dictionary value @ data['statistic_ids']. Got [] (invalid_format) <me>  from 192.168.178.20 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Home Assistant/2023.7 (io.robbie.HomeAssistant; build:2023.471; iPadOS 16.6.0) Mobile/HomeAssistant, like Safari)

everything else seems to be lost to time. I first unplugged the power, plugged it back in, nothing, then again unplug and back in and then it worked.