How to Upgrade Home Assistant Created Using the Home Assistant Core Script

[gcortes]

I need to upgrade my instance of Home Assistant that I created using the Core script. From reading the script and other research, it looks like I just need to do the following:

cd /srv/homeassistant
source bin/activate
pip3 install --upgrade homeassistant

Just pip was used in the script so I'm not sure pip3 is needed. Is this the correct procedure for the script install?

[tteck]

I'm not sure what you're asking.
If you want to update Home Assistant only, type the command update in the LXC console.

If you're wanting to update Python to 3.12 follow #2458

[tteck]

Home Assistant is created/run with user root

[tteck]

To execute any of the supplemental scripts, including the update command, would need to be user root

[tteck]

In my opinion, File Browser is the most convenient way to edit the config files in Home Assistant.

[gcortes]

I'm a long time Sublime user and also use ssh with the JetBrains IDE's. I watched a video on File Browser and see that you have a script for it so I may give it a try.

I did a chown on root/.homeassistant and can now access it via sftp. I'm failing to see why I would need a symlink to the directory when I can just access it directly. Is it a best practice type of thing?

[gcortes]

I tried copying the home assistant data back to /root/.homeassistant and changing the homeassistant.service. I then did deamon refresh and restarted home assistant. It came up without complaint, but then hung. I changed the service back and it ran normally again.

Rather than trying to fix it, I want to move on to creating a new ha core LXC to address the Python version issue. From looking at your copy script for core to core, it looks like I just need to change "CORE_PATH=/root/.homeassistant" to point to where I have the ha data. Does that sound right? I could just try it, but I'm in no hurry so I thought I would check first.

[tteck]