Hello @imassig,
Thank you for your patience and for providing feedback on the issue. We have created this topic specifically to address your concerns. Please keep us updated on your progress here.
hi i tried to run home assistant,i flash different TF card,but blue light keeps flashing i tried waiting even more than two hours and no success,i tried to restart ihos and nothing
i am on last version of ihost firmware
Thank you very much for your interest and sorry for the inconvenience.
We have seen a similar case that has been resolved on HA over iHost github repo. Here is the link: Connection refused · Issue #8 · iHost-Open-Source-Project/ha-operating-system · GitHub . Please take a look first.
Basically, use a high-quality TF card, follow the instructions step by step, and make sure you download HA over iHost image from this url https://github.com/iHost-Open-Source-Project/ha-operating-system/releases/download/15.2/haos_ihost-15.2.img.xz, not from Home Assistant Official Website.
Please let us know if you still have issues.
hi thanks for replying, yes i follow instructions step by step and use all TF card A2 V30 classes by nothing and yes i downloaded image from url from instructions
I am sorry to hear that. Here are ways I could think of to debug this issue:
- Revert back to eWeLink CUBE OS to verify the ethernet and TF card do work.
Reboot iHost and repeatedly single-press the mute button (♪) until the side LED stripe turns into Marquee Red. Wait a few minutes and then you should be able to access the eWeLink CUBE dashboard.
If iHost is connected to your LAN through ethernet, then this means iHost’s ethernet port is working.
You can then try to install add-on on eWeLink CUBE OS through the buildin Add-on feature (You need to insert TF card into the card slot first). If it works, it means TF card is working.
- Flashing Linux OS onto the same TF card, and try to boot it on iHost.
We have just released a Linux OS which has docker buildin on GitHub. Please refer to GitHub - iHost-Open-Source-Project/operating-system: Linux Distro Operating System and download image from https://github.com/iHost-Open-Source-Project/operating-system/releases/download/v1.0.0/ihost-linux-distro-20250516.img.xz
You can flash this image onto TF card just like how you flashed haos image onto the same TF card. You can then insert the TF card into TF card slot, reboot iHost, and repeatedly single-press the mute button (♪) until the side LED stripe turns into Breathing Blue if needed. If iHost already boots into TF card, then you don’t need to single-press the mute button.
Wait a few minutes and then you should be able to access the Linux OS through SSH (with username root and password root). You will need to find out the IP address of the iHost from your router’s admin page.
Please take your time and let me know the results of above methods.
ok thanks i will try it, but i know that my card is ok because i had installed unofficial HAOS, before you release you upgrade with official method to run HA, and all worked fine, I also managed to start an unofficial operating system after updating cube with the official ihost method, but I wanted to install operation system off HA one designed by you that also maintain updates. Thanks
You have been using darkxst’s HAOS for Sonoff iHost? Which network interface that the eWeLink CUBE OS was using to update to the latest version (2.5.1)? Ethernet or Wi-Fi?
Yes exactly i used this HAOS image and I was on 2.4.2 on Cube OS. Network used both lan and wifi
Thanks
Cube OS version must be 2.5.1 or the latest 2.5.2 to support running Home Assistant. You need to upgrade Cube OS to 2.5.1 or the latest 2.5.2.
yes i know
Could you please tell us:
- Which operating system you were using to flash HA over iHost image to TF card? Windows? macOS? Ubuntu Linux?
- Which imaging tool you were using? Raspberry Pi Imager? Balena Etcher?
Hi i am on Windows 11, i tried both balena and rp imager and different TF.
However now I tried to install with the unofficial method and it doesn’t work with this either, so I don’t know where the problem is
Would it possible for you to try out our newly released Linux OS? If the Linux OS over iHost works, but HA over iHost doesn’t, then we can be sure that the issue is only related to software, not hardware.
how i can do this
but still there are people who have managed to install HA on ihost with the official method from you, I even saw videos
the same way like to flash HA?
Here is the instruction to run Linux OS over iHost (the post above).
We are definitely dedicated to support HA over iHost. We just need your help to get more information in order to debug the issue you met.
Yes, we have seen hundreds of users already successfully run HA over iHost. We also get several reports that the LED stripe turns into Breathing Blue, but no HA Web Dashboard after waiting for a long time, just like what you met. Some of them have solved the issue by:
- Using another TF card;
- Replacing the iHost device because the ethernet is in fact broken.
By the way, when you run HA over iHost and can’t see the HA dashboard after waiting for a few minutes, do you know the IP address of iHost? Can you successfully ping that IP address? If you can ping that IP, can you visit that IP address with port 4357? For my HA over iHost installation, the url is http://192.168.4.207:4357/, you can replace 192.168.4.207 with the IP of your iHost.
The url is the HA observer which shows the basic status of the system, like:
ok i try that and let you know
no because my router does not assign ip to iHost, because i can’t I find ihost ip through the list of my devices ip