Upgrading Home Assistant

1. Stop Home Assistant (sudo systemctl stop homeassistant.service)
2. Open the directory where the virtual environment is located: (cd /srv/homeassistant/)
3. login as homeassistant…. sudo -u homeassistant -H -s
4. Activate the virtual environment: source bin/activate
5. Upgrade Home Assistant: ‘python3 -m pip install –upgrade homeassistant’
6. Start Home Assistant (sudo systemctl start homeassistant.service)
7. Check status (sudo systemctl status homeassistant.service)
8. You can now reach the web interface on http://ipaddress:8123/ – the first start may take up to 20 minutes before the web interface is available

Update

• If python needs updating….
  • As pyenv is installed a download of python and
    • a ./configure – -enable-optimisations followed by a make -j2 does not work as a module called encodings is not found.
    • there is another way ……
  • Create a new venv using the pyenv version of python
    1. get the latest version of python from pyenv needed.  
       • pyenv list
       • pyenv install <version>
       • pyenv global <version>
    2. stop homeassistant. sudo systemctl stop homeassistant
    3. login as homeassistant
    4. Go to /srv …. cd /srv
    5. sudo mv homeassistant homeassistant_old_<yymmdd>
    6. sudo mkdir homeassistant
    7. change ownership. sudo crown homeassistant:users homeassistant
    8. now install virtual environment.
       • cd /homeassistant
       • python13 -m venv .
       • source bin/activate
    9. Install homeassistant.  python3 -m pip install homeassistant
    10. system runs mysql database and this needs to be installed as well python3 -m pip install mysql
    11. check has installed.  file ‘hass’ should be in /srv/homeassistant/bin
    12. restart.  sudo systemctl restart homeassistant