Guide: Home Assistant Upgrade System Not Healthy Fix (Works!)

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I run Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi to manage my IoT devices. It’s a great way to have a single dashboard and app to manage everything all in one place, especially if you use multiple IoT systems (HomeKit, Google, etc.)

If you get an error during an upgrade “home assistant not healthy” which stops you from upgrading to a new version of Home Assistant, it’s an easy 1-minute fix. Fixing this error means you will be able to upgrade to the new Core, etc.

You just need to run this command on your Home Assistant:

ha supervisor restart

This needs to be run in the core Home Assistant console. If you’re running Home Assistant headless, this means either

plugging your Home Assistant device into your TV/monitor to access the terminal; or
running the Terminal app within the web console.

You can only do 1. if you have the Terminal App installed. If you don’t, you will need to do 2. and I recommend installing the Home Assistant Terminal & SSH Add On app after you fix everything. As there’s no VNC available for Home Assistant and the Terminal Add On will mean you can run this command in the WebUI.

Unfortunately, I do not provide any other general support for Home Assistant, but it worked for me!

Hope this helps someone else.