You can set up Home Assistant on a Synology NAS relatively easily in Docker, however, there are a bunch of benefits to installing the supervised version. Hi Tried the command, and this is what I got: docker rmi homeassistant/home-assistant:latest Ohh, wait I would first close down all of your docker containers with docker stop. The light on the Z-Stick is blinking and changing colour each time. Note: How to Clean Docker Automatically. What is the advantage of MySQL/Maria over the built in database? Nevertheless, su - root. HACS works perfectly fine in a Synology Docker container. 9587b90d423ce13daf5a25f7beb2154cb8b71b7d5d33ddfb59043fec2f27ba49 Ugh no that sucks! Inside the docker folder, create one new folder and name it homeassistant. This tutorial looks at how to install Home Assistant (Supervised) on a Synology NAS! Home Assistant Download: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/alternative Written Instructions: https://www.wundertech.net/how-to-set-up-home-assistant-supervised-on-a-synology-nas Subscribe for more tech related tutorials and overviews: https://link.wundertech.net/ssYt Product Recommendations: https://link.wundertech.net/rmYt Check out our website: https://link.wundertech.net/wtYtDISCLAIMER: The information in this video has been self-taught through years of technical tinkering. Adding Synology DSM to your Home Assistant instance can be done via the user as above drivers are not loaded by default, I had to write a startup /volume1/docker/mosquitto/config:/mosquitto/config At the end of the script, the start command is a systemctl command that fires up something called hassio-supervisor.service. It should work now that youve renamed the folder. FATA[0000] Error: failed to remove one or more images, Damn, so I guess its not a cache issue then. Thanks! I havent currently got a proper offsite automated backup in place. When creating the user, it is possible to deny access to all locations and applications. When this happened, the lock stopped working. The file will now upload to your Synology NAS. me), its helpful to have this ability. Firstly sorry for posting to such an old post but this is linked to from the Home Assistent/Synology installer so others will likely see this here also. Can I use Lovelace as a GUI for home assistant running on my Synology. 3) Nope, still no clue on that one. And while it might have been true in the beginning that Home and Siri did not allow much more than turning single devices on or off, that has certainly changed. Note: Find outhow to update Home Assistant container with the latest image. Phil, sorry for my question, but I am begginer in this. Everything z-wave related just stops working. Now I cant see all of my USB devices. Navigate to the Developer Tools section of Home Assistant. Still didnt help. In the bottom right, click on the Am I looking in the wrong place? This post was updated on Tuesday / February 21st, 2023 at 3:27 PM, Support my work Marius Bogdan Lixandru mariushosting Is the Ideal Resource for Sysadmins & NAS Geeks Copyright 2019 2023 All Rights Reserved. STEP 3 Go to File Station and open the docker folder. Entities reporting the current network transfer rates of the NAS. Note: How to Clean Docker. Where are you trying to use the USB stick? So, if you want to enable Z-wave and Bluetooth in Home Assistant, your new Docker run command looks like. It should show all containers, but maybe it removes the old versions of images by default or something. Once Docker runs the container, our SSH session is returned to us. Heres what I did, so please let me know if you or anyone else here believes this process would/could cause any issues down the road: 1. Add-ons for Home Assistant are freely available in the add-on store. The Z-Wave component was detected by HA in the Docker and initialized successfully. Home Assistant has an official Dockerfile. Home Assistant for Synology Configuration leonardo.tajariol (Leonardo) May 18, 2022, 5:37pm #1 Good evening , I installed Home Assistant on a NAs Synology via Docker. STEP 2 Install Docker via Synology " Package Center ". I tried a png and a jpg file neighter one of them are showing up. Follow the instructions in the image below. Home Assistant (HA) is a free, open-source home automation software that helps you build a localized smart home with complete privacy. Would be interested to hear if running it from a USB does indeed allow your harddrives to hibernate. Open Virtual Machine Manager, select Virtual Machine, then Create, and finally, Import. You can create a scheduled task to restart the Home Assistant container every day at 3am if you wish. Here you can validate the latest version you currently have deployed. Follow the instructions below: General: In the Task field type in Install Home Assistant.Uncheck "Enabled" option. Note: If you want to run the Home Assistant container over HTTPS check How to Run Docker Containers Over HTTPS. Modify it however youd like! Thanks for sharing this! Youre now logged into your NAS using the super user account. Follow the instructions below: Note: Before you paste the code above in the Run command area below, change the value for TZ(Select your current Time Zone from this list). Maybe i need to restart docker from synology every 24h? Entities reporting the internal temperature and the uptime of the NAS. Select root User. Considering how rare it is for my NAS to reboot, I havent delved into it deeper, and just hope it keeps working. Also, it will be nice to note that the user needs to ensure that the path /volume1/Shared/docker/homeassistant/config exists before running the command (I had to manually create the directory). 5. These sensors report if a drive has exceeded the maximum threshold for detected bad sectors and if a drive has dropped below the threshold for its remaining life. It may not be /usbshare1, so take a look around the file system to see what the file path might be. Click OK. After you click OK onSTEP 6, select your Install Home Assistant Task then click the Run tab. Would you be able to advise how to solve this please? In this case, it is recommended to use NIC bonding instead or to deactivate SSDP. Yes. Does the Trdfri Gateway require a USB port? Please Support My work by Making a Donation. docker run tells Docker to run a container with the parameters were parsing. This is a frustrating issue Im yet to solve. User @patflest on the Home Assistant forums has tested these commands with DSM 6, and found that by prefixing the commands with 13. Search for Terminal & SSH, then select the Official add-on. Hopefully its still the same in the latest versions. After the virtual machine fully powers on, youll see that an IP address will be assigned to it. 1883:1883 The last part of the address tells the browser to connect to port 8123, which Home Assistant listens to. Hey Phil, quick question. [emailprotected]:~$ mkdir -p /volume1/Shared/docker/homeassistant/config, mkdir: cannot create directory /volume1/Shared: Permission denied. e.g. So replace /volume1/Shared/docker with /homes/[user]/homeassistant/config. If youre having issues getting the Docker package to start, check your network settings. For a more accurate location, move your location point on the MAP. This at least is true for DSM5. Click NEXT. So, enter your username as root and the password to your admin account. The file will now upload to your Synology NAS. image969 (James Scialdone) May 6, 2022, 3:01pm #6 I moved away from a z-wave USB to a Vera hub. I originally thought it was faulty, so I did a hard reset of the z-stick. Its just a REST API allowing you to start stop and restart containers. I dont know if this will help, but at least its something for you to try. Youll need to create a new container to run on 0.61. I get the error Start container home-assistant failed: {message:Bind mount failed: /volume1/Shared/docker/homeassistant/config does not exists}. Use the default VM network (your network name may be different if you customized it) and then select the gear icon. Anything would be helpful . 14. I think this still wont allow for hibernation to happen because the container itself is still running on Volume1. It is always something as simple as that! I found it so limiting, I just went straight to the command line. On my version, I need to enter the username root. I discovered that those path are valid temporarily, the path in the default directory is the right path where the certificates are stored every time. By default, your Synology allows basic access to the filesystem. Copy Current Container Container > select container > Settings > Duplicate Settings > Rename (e.g. cap_add : null, This will create a shared folder NetBackup. Ah interesting. In my automations, whenever I call turn_on or turn_off on a z-wave device, I also have a script. sudo insmod /lib/modules/usbserial.ko Home Assistant Container is still very much supported on Docker and Synology. Whatever you choose to use, the folder must exist before you will be able to start Home Assistant. I get this error message, and I have checked the Shared Folder permissions, which seem OK. Any idea why this wont work? Home Assistant with Z-wave Radio wont start after NAS Reboot Install Docker via Synology Package Center. Should work in 5.2, 6.0, and 6.1. And I can Stop this container and Start the old one without issue, all from the DSM Docker GUI. One of the great things about Home Assistant is their rapid development time. manual integration entry: From the configuration menu select: Devices & Services. The file goes in the openzwave config_path not the HA config path. Before we begin, we first need to plug in our Z-wave USB radio into the NAS. However, changing ports is worth a try! By the way, you should ad the udev rule mapping to your tutorial to make it easier for newer users . Just tried them on DS Thanks for your quick response. 2. Any ideas? ;). hass:/config homeassistant/home-assistant command, i get: FATA[0030] Tag latest not found in repository homeassistant/home-assistant. volume_bindings : [ I installed HASS.io on my Ubuntu box using a script by Frenck. I can start and stop Home assistant from terminal., Well thats interesting. I am not sure what Domoticz does differently to Home Assistant, that makes the USB work. You can easily edit the file to update your HASS config path/USB/Timezone. When you create a container, you create it against a version of an image. I get the same error message, if I run hciconfig from inside the container. I have created a udev rule for my aeotec zstick: Think of it as the GUI you can see from DSM, but much more powerful. Strange. But didnt get that far at all. Note: Check out my new guide on how to Install Home Assistant Supervisor. To fix this, I usually have to do the following steps. I must say, I find it strange that a piece of software like Home Assistant is so troublesome.. Dear Phil, In my experience, when the z-wave issue would occur, I had no trouble still accessing the Z-wave USB by its path. Thank you for this clear tutorial, did you make any progress on Home Assistant with Z-wave Radio wont start after NAS Reboot? [ 74.620877] usb 1-2: Detected FT232RL :) in what part of the world are you? Lets slightly change our docker run command from above, to include some more parameters. When it comes time to upgrade your version of Home Assistant, we need to login via SSH again. Make sure youre using sudo in your command. If theres a particular component that youre interested in which I havent covered off in a post, please let me know so I can make a note to do a post on it! Remember, as weve only included the config directory in the -v flag, the Home Assistant container wont be able to access anything outside of that directory on the NAS. This will make our lives much easier. sudo they will work on DSM 6. Ill look into converting to the MySQL database in its own container. @andrvanstijn:disqus Id love to use your method too and Ive just renewed my LetsEncrypt certificate on my RS814+. But I need to instal Docker first. } All is well now! Hi Phil, truly appreciate your effort in providing these instructions! Note: How to Use Docker Containers With VPN. This is one of the flags you cant set when using the Docker DSM UI. Active/back-upmodus After debugging I All I did was add in the settings from the Pushbullet docs on Home Assistant. Couple of issues 1. "enable_restart_policy" : true, I guess I can run the rpi version inside docker.. but is that any better or worse? All reviews and suggestions are solely the authors opinion and not of any other entity. So in terminal, it shows 3 containers, but in the Synology Docker GUI, it shows only 2. 3. 3. Like everyones, my config changes so often that it is a mess and unorganized. Entities reporting the current and combined CPU utilization of the NAS. I cant understand what is correct If not, you might need to add that as a shared folder from the UI first. If youre running a newer version of DSM, you may not be able to login using the root username as described above. In this guide, Im going to show you how to install it using Docker on a Synology NAS, with full compatibility with z-wave and network discovery. 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