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. Can you see them if you do a docker ps -a in a terminal? The above command should show you any USB devices plugged into your NAS. Your mileage may vary though. I dont have any issues with speed as its WAY faster than my RPi3 was. Hi Tried the command, and this is what I got: docker rmi homeassistant/home-assistant:latest Can you try. I was able to create the folder volume1dockerhomeassistantconfig and use that. You would ensure that you make that mapping responsibly. Configure the Scheduled Task. Thanks for your helps. Now thats interesting. it will be shown as Discovered, which you can select to set it up right I tried getting USB running. In the bottom right, click on the There are many ways to manually do things inside of Home Assistant, but the supervisor will allow you to do it in an automated way without much tinkering. If not, you might need to add that as a shared folder from the UI first. Enable & configure Rsync on Diskstation Login to your Diskstation Go to Control Panel > File Services > rsync Tab Under rsync check Enable rsync service & check Enable rsync account and click Apply. The Z-Stick is still there as it shows up ttyACM0 but I have another that the original path was /dev/ttyUSB2 and I cant find it anywhere. On the other hand, would you know how run docker and home-assistant off a usb drive on the Nas? Nothing helps. I dont know if this will help, but at least its something for you to try. sudo they will work on DSM 6. I have also tried downloading the image in the gui, and that also fails. Phil, sorry for my question, but I am begginer in this. Code owners of synology_dsm can trigger bot actions by commenting:. 716+II with DSM 6.1.4. Just replace 0.61.0 with the version you want. Also when i try to use notify.pushbullet under services nothing happens. Sort of. MySQL is a database server (I run it in its own container), so theres no overheads for Home Assistant to worry about. If that still doesnt work, then I would check did you create the Shared directory from the Synology UI? This tutorial looked at how to set up Home Assistant Supervised on a Synology NAS. This time well want to do the following. You may need to prefix the command with sudo, so. Disabling the OpenVPN connection, then starting Docker should fix this. If you want to add cameras from Surveillance Station, the user needs application permission for Surveillance Station. Youre now logged into your NAS using the super user account. docker_mosquitto_1 exited with code 3, When I try to run with using compose with the following: For whatever reason it was just unusable. Then its just a matter of adjusting the run command above to the path where your USB files are. A70252DY) as my z Wave stick. Now that Advanced Mode is enabled, we can install the Terminal & SSH application. My workaround has been to just stop the docker container, run Domoticz app on Synology for a few moments, turn off Domoticz, and then restart the docker container. Balance-TCP 2. The apps can also be used to send your location home to use presence detection as part of your automations. From your SSH window, run the following command. Ah yes of course! 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. devices : /dev/ttyACM0, < my z-wave USB After going through the update process, it appears the new container is whats not showing up. Thanks for the quick responses though. Now I cant see all of my USB devices. Ive installed docker and HA in the same directory you have suggested : volume1/Shared/docker/homeassistant/config Inside the docker folder, create one new folder and name it homeassistant. Did I mention I am a newbie at this.? This will tell Docker to keep trying to re-start Home Assistant if it crashes. I am not using this configurator unfortunately. I originally thought it was faulty, so I did a hard reset of the z-stick. No reproduction without permission. Fantastic! Its all working without fail now. Did you have any issue with high memory usage on the Synology NAS docker container? Copy and pasted the commands exactly. Ive seen references to it being a logging issue, but Ive followed the recommendations for that (I think) and it hasnt gone away. Suggestions? If I try the SSH command-line as you outlined above will I be able to see it in the Synology NAS Docker manager (start/stop it)? Please Support My work by Making a Donation. When the Home Assistant machine/container boots up, it will have a USB device available at /dev/ttyUSB0. Of course, wed also need to enable the Bluetooth tracker in Home Assistant, so wed add the following to our Home Assistant configuration. STEP 2 Install Docker via Synology " Package Center ". Step: see USB using PUTTY and cpmmand: ls /dev/tty* 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). Any ideas? Ive tried your suggestions, but without success. With that comes more responsibility to keep things updates. What really stumps me is that the hardware report is showing that path. Thanks! Although I havent heard of it happening, you could potentially brick your NAS if you do something wrong. Note: Be careful to enter only lowercase, not uppercase letters. 2. It seems like whenever an invalid key is tried, the lock will refuse to work again with the controller for security reasons? Well need to enable this option, as it will enable us to access more areas of the Synology from the file manager. I would first try and mount the volume with a -v. See if that does something for it? I dont think so. Im a moron. Im stuck, however, because I dont run a docker command to start Hass.io. brilliant blog nice tutorials and inspiration thanks for sharing! After navigating to the Home Assistant URL, Home Assistant will be preparing, which can take 10-20 minutes in total. "PathOnHost": "/dev/ttyACM0" } 3. Note: How to Free Disk Space on Your NAS if You Run Docker. Home Assistant running in a Docker container only has access to what you give it access to. Once Docker runs the container, our SSH session is returned to us. Disable any OpenVPN Connections when starting Docker So, if I turn on a desk lamp in an automation, if 20 seconds later the desk lamp is off, then Home Assistant assumed z-wave is doiwn. It seems the USB path is not persistent after stopping and starting HA, after a restart of the container, HA cannot find the Config path. When this happened, the lock stopped working. In my shared folder, I do have a Docker subdirectory with a homeassistant folder. I have uncommented http in configuration.yaml So, to setup a scheduled task in Synology go to Control Panel -> Task Scheduler -> Create -> User Defined Script, Once in there, you can enter in any command you would normally execute via SSH. Oh excellent! Uncheck the Enabled option. Any idea how to get it working on the rear USBs as I dont really want it stuck in the front? [ 74.629569] usb 1-2: Endpoint 1 MaxPacketSize 64 Note:This guide works perfectly with the latest Homeassistant 2023.2.5release. This will make our lives much easier. Thanks for checking out the tutorial on how to set up Home Assistant Supervised on a Synology NAS. The first container that I set up usinfg the CLI worked as expected and showed up in the Docker GUI. I also tried with and without -p 8123:8123. Home Assistant is a free, open source program for Home Automation. These report the total CPU load for the entire NAS. 16 @andrvanstijn:disqus Id love to use your method too and Ive just renewed my LetsEncrypt certificate on my RS814+. I cant see why a USB hub wouldnt work though, Might be a good solution. 2) Do you perform backups of your installations and, if so, how? Let me know how you go. When it comes time to upgrade your version of Home Assistant, we need to login via SSH again. So, if you want to enable Z-wave and Bluetooth in Home Assistant, your new Docker run command looks like. Code owner commands. 7. Im thinking I can do a manual backup of my config separately to avoid the container missing from my GUI. My solution was to move off the NAS to an old nettop PC I had around. You seem to be quite knowledgeable about this so Im hoping you can help me figure it out. I also have a Synology NAS that I would like to be able to . Once you have Docker running, you can re-connect the OpenVPN connection to encrypt your traffic again. Using your guide, I was able to set up Home Assistant on my Synology 918+ without a lot of trouble really cool. The help says run commands: Great job! However, I would suggest trying to install that Netifaces dependency inside the container. As a result of the Insteon shutdown, I would like to install Home Assistant so that I can use my existing Insteon hub and devices. Hmm. The worst part was even after correcting the config.xml path in Docker, the lock STILL didnt work. This should allow the UI to see the files. Enter your email address below to receive my latest blog posts and videos about Home Automation in your Inbox. While we do our best to provide accurate, useful information, we make no guarantee that our readers will achieve the same level of success. I ended up buying a second-hand vera lite on eBay, and use that as a network hub to communicate with the z-wave network. So, if the issue is making the USB port accessible to the Docker container via a command line adjustment, I dont know where that would go. It is a management UI you can run from within Docker to manage other docker containers. Select Import from OVA files, then select Next. However I dont have a dialout group. }, Once youve installed the Docker package, start it. Im probably trying to jump in with too high a setup initially as I have a domain and HTTPS running and web apps hosted already on the NAS Im trying to get this working on Docker on a sub domain using an SSL cert (because my NAS was set already to convert port 80 to 443, force HSTS and all those fun things that just wont work when its not all set up right) Ive ended up using reverse proxying 443 on the ha.subdomain to the to the docker container on port 8123 but Im not sure how those are bridged or accessed really and Im not sure where Im going wrong I guess I need to go back to the inital setup again and do it in baby steps. This might be an explanation on your high memory use. If that doesnt work, you might be able to replace the IDs with this command instead: After that, the files should be owned by the admin user, and the users group should have access to the files. Do you use a script (if yes, please share) or shut down the docker service entirely? 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