Home assistant only supports linux osx and windows using wsl

Thanks for the reply! How much longer — like half an hour or more? If so, I will let it sit all afternoon.

Option 2:

homeassistant is running as pid 48438.
http://172.16.1.108:8123

Nothing exciting in the logfile. It appears to have started up successfully at least once after upgrading because it was griping about a Volumio device loading slowly. Every subsequent restart of the service or reboot of the jail, nothing happens.

The log file was >300 MB so I renamed it and created a new logfile «home-assistant.log» and ensured it had the right permissions and owner. When I restart the home assistant service, the logfile stays at filesize zero.

As a sanity-check I searched the jail for other instances of «home-assistant.log» (found none) and double-checked the mount point mapping (appears unchanged).

I tried running the upgrader again from the console, all requirements are already satisfied, and it signs off with these lines again:

Testing configuration at /home/homeassistant/homeassistant
INFO:homeassistant.helpers.storage:Migrating core.device_registry storage from 1.1 to 1.2
INFO:homeassistant.helpers.storage:Migrating core.entity_registry storage from 1.1 to 1.4

… and logfile remains empty.

Running service -e in the console, I also see «/usr/local/etc/rc.d/homeassistant» running.

Any thoughts are appreciated. The empty logfile is strange. And sorry if this is not the right place to troubleshoot (please advise if not), but it seemed relevant.

EDIT: Before anyone wastes any time on my reply… I think I have found a workaround. I shut down the old jail, built a new jail from scratch, and pointed it at my config directory (which I’d externalized per the documentation). Everything has been booting up for 20 minutes — verrrry slowly as adorobis said — but at least it all seems to be working. Glad I read the original instructions and set that up!! I have to run a cat to the vet right now but you can assume that if I don’t update this post again, it’s all working. Not sure where I went wrong. Thanks again all. Love this integration.

FINAL UPDATE: All appears to be well. HA is back and my cat’s shots are up to date. Not sure what the issue was, but as a colleague used to say I’m going to «back away slowly». Thanks to all the contributors!

Using pip to install homeassistant encountered the following problems, and could not successfully install ciso8601

Building wheels for collected packages: ciso8601
  Building wheel for ciso8601 (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Building wheel for ciso8601 (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [11 lines of output]
      running bdist_wheel
      running build
      running build_py
      creating build
      creating build\lib.win32-cpython-39
      creating build\lib.win32-cpython-39\ciso8601
      copying ciso8601\__init__.pyi -> build\lib.win32-cpython-39\ciso8601
      copying ciso8601\py.typed -> build\lib.win32-cpython-39\ciso8601
      running build_ext
      building 'ciso8601' extension
      error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for ciso8601
Failed to build ciso8601
ERROR: Could not build wheels for ciso8601, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

Let me talk about the solution first:

The C++ compilation tool is not installed in the system, causing pip to fail to compile the relevant code, which is the prompt in the above error message

error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

Try flow:

1. Update the versions of pip and python

2. Install the corresponding whl file, but I searched for the corresponding link, and there is no ciso8601 whl file at all

To install the Microsoft C++ Build Tools tool, refer to this link:

Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with «Microsoft C++ Build Tools» solution — Zhihu.com

After installing the compilation tool, reinstall ciso8610, the installation is successful

C:\Users\Administrator>pip3 install ciso8601
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple
Collecting ciso8601
  Using cached https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/packages/db/50/ed16ee9a645196a29d2b7222d77e7d266f63f7a6042f2ac6cbb18a2b98e4/ciso8601-2.2.0.tar.gz (18 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: ciso8601
  Building wheel for ciso8601 (pyproject.toml) ... done
  Created wheel for ciso8601: filename=ciso8601-2.2.0-cp39-cp39-win32.whl size=14159 sha256=8589c0945876044d6824c0618f794c8f18be2f01024a090defbf986d7262e870
  Stored in directory: c:\users\administrator\appdata\local\pip\cache\wheels\67\1f\93\f5d692f0e81d6c353cf764e0e98af724f5b6b8b7a7e587ad31
Successfully built ciso8601
Installing collected packages: ciso8601
Successfully installed ciso8601-2.2.0

It is recommended to use WIN+ virtual machine to install home assistant, because even if there is a compatibility problem with win, even if the installation is complete, it will prompt at runtime: Home Assistant only supports Linux, OSX and Windows using WSL