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InternetLuddite said:
Too scared to even update MQTT to 6.0.1 or whatever that version was that broke PAI. I have a full VM so perhaps should just give it a go for the sake of the community
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I'm on 6.0.1 of the Mosquito broker. Been running without issues since they released it

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No issues here
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I did the update yesterday. I checked the PAI wiki to see if there was any issues reported.
 
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Confirm that everything is working on the latest everything

MQTT 6.0.1
OS 6
Release : 2021.06.4
PAI 2.5.3
 
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I'm running Home Assistant OS 6.0 in VirtualBox on Windows 10. All of a sudden I have run out of space on the VM - it has consistently been under 70% now it's at 90% and I cannot update or add integrations. I cannot find any particular reason for this so I guess I need to increase size of the VM - the problem is that the videos I can find on this are somewhat outdated and I don't want to lose/break this install.

Can someone point me in the direction of a good resource?
 
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riscbroker said:
I'm running Home Assistant OS 6.0 in VirtualBox on Windows 10. All of a sudden I have run out of space on the VM - it has consistently been under 70% now it's at 90% and I cannot update or add integrations. I cannot find any particular reason for this so I guess I need to increase size of the VM - the problem is that the videos I can find on this are somewhat outdated and I don't want to lose/break this install.

Can someone point me in the direction of a good resource?
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You have a VM, so make a copy of it and try to follow those guides and see if it works? At least if it fails, you can then just replace the VM with the bauckup?

How big did you make your VM disk? I made mines 32GB and i think it's fully utilised

I added the recorder directive to my configuration.yaml two weeks ago and hoping it's doing what it's supposed to do. I used their default configuration but set purge interval for 180 days. I am using the default Hass SQL .

www.home-assistant.io

Recorder

Instructions on how to configure the data recorder for Home Assistant.
www.home-assistant.io www.home-assistant.io

Anyone else using this? Thinking I should add alarm zones to it. The alarm integration must add loads of records daily. Only need the info for maybe 8 days. Maybe keeping everything for 180 days is too much but thinking there could be value in it for power utilisation stars etc.
 
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HA reports that the VM disk size is only 5.2GB, with 4.7GB in use, so hardly surprising that it's complaining.

I've used the virtual media manager in VirtualBox to increase the virtual disk size, but it seems I have to also do a physical disk partition and merge, which is doing my head in.

Is it perhaps easier/practical/possible to make a copy of the VM, bin the original and then set up a new VM with a suitably sized disk?
 
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riscbroker said:
HA reports that the VM disk size is only 5.2GB, with 4.7GB in use, so hardly surprising that it's complaining.

I've used the virtual media manager in VirtualBox to increase the virtual disk size, but it seems I have to also do a physical disk partition and merge, which is doing my head in.

Is it perhaps easier/practical/possible to make a copy of the VM, bin the original and then set up a new VM with a suitably sized disk?
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Have you considered simply migrating to a docker?
 
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riscbroker said:
I have no idea what that would entail but will do some homework quickly
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I'm speaking hesitantly here, but I believe you can simply make a snapshot of your current setup, install HA supervised in docker (there's a great online guide on the HA website) and then upload your snapshot. Maybe give that a test and only delete the original VM once you've confirmed that it works.
 
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Speedster said:
I'm speaking hesitantly here, but I believe you can simply make a snapshot of your current setup, install HA supervised in docker (there's a great online guide on the HA website) and then upload your snapshot. Maybe give that a test and only delete the original VM once you've confirmed that it works.
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I'd prefer to keep HA on this Windows machine, I don't have a full understanding of a Docker install but it doesn't seem to be possible on Windows.
 
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Speedster said:
I'm speaking hesitantly here, but I believe you can simply make a snapshot of your current setup, install HA supervised in docker (there's a great online guide on the HA website) and then upload your snapshot. Maybe give that a test and only delete the original VM once you've confirmed that it works.
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I'd prefer to keep HA on this Windows machine, I don't have a full understanding of a Docker install but it doesn't seem to be possible on Windows.
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I think you can follow the same approach
  1. Make a snapshot of your existing HA VM
  2. Copy that file so you can use it
  3. Turn off HA VM
  4. Build a new HA VM with bigger disk
  5. Install HA and then restore snapshot - everything should be back. If it works. Then all you do is delete the old HA VM. If it doesn't work and, turn on the old one again.

Points to look out for:-
1. IP address could be managed by your router for HA (if you did not set a static one) so ensure that you cater for that eventuality
 
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riscbroker said:
I'd prefer to keep HA on this Windows machine, I don't have a full understanding of a Docker install but it doesn't seem to be possible on Windows.
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I am also running in a VM. Wanted to do the docker install but my old PC is still on Win7. Docker works on Win10.
 
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riscbroker said:
HA reports that the VM disk size is only 5.2GB, with 4.7GB in use, so hardly surprising that it's complaining.

I've used the virtual media manager in VirtualBox to increase the virtual disk size, but it seems I have to also do a physical disk partition and merge, which is doing my head in.

Is it perhaps easier/practical/possible to make a copy of the VM, bin the original and then set up a new VM with a suitably sized disk?
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Depending on the vm software you using, it should be straightforward in just increasing the vm disk size and the resize the partition.
 
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w1tw0lf said:
Depending on the vm software you using, it should be straightforward in just increasing the vm disk size and the resize the partition.
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I've tried the tutorial as outlined here but I get an error when using GParted to resize the disk so I'm stumped:

derekmolloy.ie

How to resize a virtualbox VDI disk under windows | derekmolloy.ie

Describes how to resize a linux virtualbox vdi drive under windows host
derekmolloy.ie derekmolloy.ie

(yes I know the link looks dodgy but it's okay.....)

Edit: The error that I get is non-informative so it may well be that I have made a fundamental error in the whole process.
 
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Finished my proof of concept automation switch. It triggers a HA automation, in this case, turns on my cinema circuit, then the receiver, projector, lamps and drops the screen.

(Turning it off does the reverse)
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xrapidx said:
Finished my proof of concept automation switch. It triggers a HA automation, in this case, turns on my cinema circuit, then the receiver, projector, lamps and drops the screen.

(Turning it off does the reverse)
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Very cool. But why not simply use an off the shelf switch?
 
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