Hi guys my HA has crashed twice today and then been unresponsive after I power it down/restart - i've restored from my backup which fixes the issue but it then crashes again an hour or so later. Its been running fine for a few weeks now so not sure whats causing it? Have uploaded logs ty.
#HA Suddenly Crashing today - Pi 5
fast kelp
golden smelt
Hi @fast kelp,
Are you using an SD card? All SD cards go bad, some sooner than others.
fast kelp
Ya I am.. this SD card is about a week old. Reckon its still that based on the logs ?
golden smelt
I can't be sure, but chances are good. I didn't look at the log file you sent.
fast kelp
If possible to have a look at log file please? This SD is basically new so don't want to swap and then the issue is caused by an integration malfunctioning and not the SD
golden smelt
Well you have something called zimi that is causing thousands of uneeded database writes...
light.deck_leds (<class 'custom_components.zimi.light.ZimiLight'>) does not report a color mode, this will stop working in Home Assistant Core 2025.3, please report it to the author of the 'zimi' custom integration get rid of that or update it.
many log lines about that one.
This is crashing: /hunterdouglas_powerview/cover.py"
Failed to communicate with PowerView Hub
I don't know how to read that stuff. It's amess...
fast kelp
Hmm I need the zimi integration unfortunately anyway to stop those useless writes? Its up to date
golden smelt
You could look at that, but if I were running an SDcard I would have 2 spares at all times and a daily backup so I could fix it. Or install somethng that's intended to live under the number of writes a database like HA uses to tun itself, like an external SSD powered by an externaly powered USB hub.
fast kelp
Im trying to restore a backup to ssd atm.
golden smelt
I thought you said you are using an SD card for HA, not an SSD...
fast kelp
I was - i have an external ssd here so trying that to see as I couldn't even restore the latest backup to my sd card to get it going agaim
golden smelt
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fast kelp
Anyway to lower the writes of that zimi integration?
golden smelt
It has a lot of errors, track them down. It might be config problems too.
just get it running for now then look into the errors.
fast kelp
latest backup taking ages to restore - could restore from a backup a few days ago quite quickly - possible the backup is also destroyed because of the crashing or should I just wait?
backup is only 5mb
fast kelp
Hi @golden smelt I have managed to restore an older backup to an SSD now - what can I do to reduce the chances of another crash 🙂 Thanks for your time so far