Where Is Home Assistant Snapshot?

Home Assistant OS Snapshots Snapshots are easily made in Home Assistant OS and are a service that can be automated. These can be made from the UI or the CLI (see below). They are stored in the /backup directory. Having snapshots handy will make it much easier on yourself.

Where are home assistant backups stored?

compressed archive file
Backup of your Home Assistant and add-on data and configuration. They are stored in a compressed archive file (. tar). Backups are made from the Supervisor Backups panel.

How do I restore my home assistant backup?

What’s the easiest way to restore a backup?

1. Install latest hass.io to sd card.
2. Boot raspberry pi.
3. It will take up to 20 minutes to initialize hass.io.
4. Create a tmp account.
5. power off.
6. copy backup to sd card ( /hassos-data/supervisor/backup )
7. Restart raspberry pi.

How long does it take to restore home assistant?

This should take about 10 minutes, but can be depending on the amount of data. After a final restart it will then be finally restored. All the entities, devices, automations and more is now back and you can use your Home Assistant again as before.

How do I find my home assistant IP address?

You can find the IP address by logging into your router (typically by typing 192.168. 1.1 into the address bar of your browser), finding your Pi (should be named hassio).

How do I connect to Homeassistant?

Configuration

1. Browse to your Home Assistant instance.
2. In the sidebar click on Configuration.
3. From the configuration menu select: Integrations.
4. In the bottom right, click on the Add Integration button.
5. From the list, search and select “Home Connect”.
6. Follow the instruction on screen to complete the set up.

How do I upload home assistant snapshot?

Basically the steps are:

1. Make a snapshot using the Google Drive add-on.
2. Load up a fresh copy of HA on something.
3. Turn off the old one.
4. Steal it’s static IP on my LAN for the new one.
5. Install the Google Drive add-on in the new one as first step.
6. Tell the add-on to go get the image and pull it local.

What port is home assistant on?

port 8123
Just within your home network you might know that your Home Assistant is on an IP like 192.168. 1.4 and listening on port 8123. If you use Home Assistant OS and haven’t changed any of the defaults, Home Assistant will also be reachable at http://homeassistant.local:8123.

How do I restore Homeassistant snapshot?

You can also restore from the Snapshot page in Home Assistant.

1. Go to “Supervisor”.
2. Go to the “Snapshot” tab.
3. Select the Snapshot you wish to restore.
4. Deselect anything you don’t wish to restore.
5. Select “restore”.
6. Wait several minutes while Home Assistant restores your configuration.

How do I backup my Lovelace?

Recorder

1. Install HomeAssistantOS.
2. Login to HA.
3. Setup Samba Addon.
4. Browse to HA/Backup folder.
5. Drop in tar file.
6. Go to restore page in HA.
7. Click the Refresh button inside the UI (Not on the browser)
8. Your tar file will appear.

How do I turn on Advanced Mode home assistant?

Activate Advanced Mode
Go to the Profile tab in Home Assistant and scroll down to turn on Advanced Mode. Advanced mode will give you the ability to use the Check Configuration tool.

How long does a snapshot restore take?

Restoring from the Snapshot takes 25 minutes! 25 minutes for the restore is too long considering users are forced to stay in read only mode for all this period and that our DB size is less than 10 mb at the moment.

What is Home Assistant local?

Home Assistant keeps your data local, no need for a cloud. Home Assistant communicates with your devices locally, and will fallback to pulling in data from the cloud if there is no other option.Data is sent directly to your home, no access by third-parties.

How do I find my MAC address Linux?

UNIX or Linux devices

1. Open a terminal.
2. Type ifconfig -a and press Enter. -> HWaddr or ether or lladdr is the device’s MAC address. If this does not work or if you are not able to find the MAC address, please consult the vendor’s documentation or man pages for assistance.

Is it safe to expose Home Assistant to the internet?

A problem with making a port accessible is that some Internet Service Providers only offer dynamic IPs.Just putting a port up is not secure. You should definitely consider encrypting your traffic if you are accessing your Home Assistant installation remotely.

How do I find my Home Assistant?

A View is a tab inside a Lovelace dashboard. To display cards on the UI you have to define them in views. You can add a view to your user interface, by clicking the Lovelace menu (three dots at the top right of the screen) and then Edit Dashboard.

How do I port forward Nat?

How to Port Forward

1. Open a web browser.
2. Then type your router’s IP address into the address bar.
3. Next, enter your router’s username and password.
4. Then go to the port forwarding settings on your router.
5. Next, create a new port forwarding rule.
6. Then enter a name for the service or application.

What is home assistant Hacs?

HACS is an abbreviation of “Home Assistant Community Store”. Although “Store” is not “technically” correct since nothing is sold, it’s more like a marketplace? but “HACM” didn’t have the same ring to it. HACS is a component that gives the user a powerful UI to handle downloads of custom needs.

How do I move home assistant to new Raspberry Pi?

Here is what I did.

1. Download the Hass.io image for Rpi4.
2. Image the new microSD card.
3. Let the the Rpi4 boot and sit and download everything.
4. Make a snapshot on the Rpi3 and download it.
5. On the Rpi4 install Samba Share and copy the snapshot into the backup folder.
6. Reboot the Rpi4.
7. Restore the snapshot on the Rpi4.