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Login to the Raspberry Pi
To login to your Raspberry Pi running Hassbian you're going to be using a ssh client. Depending on your platform there are several alternatives for doing this. Linux and Mac OS generally have a ssh client installed. Windows users are recommended to download and install the ssh client Putty.
Connect to the Raspberry Pi over ssh. Default user name is pi and password is raspberry.
Linux and Mac OS users execute the following command in a terminal.
ssh pi@ip-address-of-pi
Windows users start Putty, enter the IP address of the Raspberry Pi in the Host name field and port 22 in the Port field. Then click Open and a terminal window will open. Enter the credentials. Default user name is pi and password is raspberry.
Optionally, starting with Windows 10 anniversary update, you can use the built-in 'Bash on Windows' to use SSH if you have enabled Developer mode and have installed the "Windows Subsystem for Linux (beta)" feature.
Start/Stop/Restart Home Assistant
Log in as the pi account and execute the following commands:
sudo systemctl stop home-assistant@homeassistant.service
Replace stop with start or restart to get the desired functionality.
To get the current state of the homeassistant.service replace stop with status.
Update Home Assistant
You can use hassbian-config to automate the process by running sudo hassbian-config upgrade homeassistant
Log in as the pi account and execute the following commands:
sudo systemctl stop home-assistant@homeassistant.service
sudo -u homeassistant -H -s
source /srv/homeassistant/bin/activate
pip3 install --upgrade homeassistant
exit
sudo systemctl start home-assistant@homeassistant.service
This will in order do the following:
- Stop the Home Assistant service running on Hassbian
- Open a shell as the
homeassistantuser running the Homeassistant service and that has ownership over the Home Assistant installation. - Change into the virtual Python environment at
/srv/homeassistant/containing the Home Assistant installation. - Upgrade the Home Assistant installation to the latest release.
- Exit the shell and return to the
piuser. - Start the Home Assistant service.
Manually launch Home Assistant
Log in as the pi account and execute the following commands:
sudo -u homeassistant -H -s
source /srv/homeassistant/bin/activate
hass
This will start Home Assistant in your shell and output anything that ends up in the log and more into the console. This will fail if the Home Assistant service is already running so don't forget to stop it first. If you want the log output to be colored, execute hass --script check_config first. This will install the colorlog module.
Check your configuration
Log in as the pi account and execute the following commands:
sudo -u homeassistant -H -s
source /srv/homeassistant/bin/activate
hass --script check_config
This will output any errors in your configuration files to console.
Read the Home Assistant log file
Log in as the pi account and execute the following commands:
sudo -u homeassistant -H -s
cd /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant
nano home-assistant.log
This will in order do the following:
- Open a shell as the
homeassistantuser. - Change directory to the Home Assistant configuration directory.
- Open the log file in the nano editor.
Optionally, you can also view the log with journalctl.
Log in as the pi account and execute the following commands:
sudo journalctl -fu home-assistant@homeassistant.service
Edit the Home Assistant configuration
Log in as the pi account and execute the following commands:
sudo -u homeassistant -H -s
cd /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant
nano configuration.yaml
This will in order do the following:
- Open a shell as the
homeassistantuser. - Change directory to the Home Assistant configuration directory.
- Open the configuration file in the nano editor.
It's generally recommended that you read the Getting started guide for how to configure Home Assistant.
Change locale, timezone and keyboard layout
sudo raspi-config