Schedule: Select Run on the following date then select "Do not repeat". Can i give the container access to /dev/zwaveusbstick ? Make sure youre using sudo in your command. Tried to reset the tokens and create new ones, no success. I cant see any problems, except maybe the network not coming across. STEP 3 Go to File Station and open the docker folder. Im trying to set up ssl encryption but Im running into a wall. That is rather interesting. Switching it to host, fixed the problem. While we do our best to provide accurate, useful information, we make no guarantee that our viewers will achieve the same level of success. I actually managed to fix this myself. Wonder if theres a cache issue? I made dir manually, but I do not find configuration.yaml If youre running a newer version of DSM, you may not be able to login using the root username as described above. A70252DY) as my z Wave stick. Using my admin username will not work for what we want to do. volume_bindings : [ Ive tried starting a docker image with the commands that you mention above, but I keep getting an error ( https://gist.github.com/soccerob/8d8ba635c09f8e94e5a0d8db609ac4e6 ). From the list, search and select Synology DSM. Sort of. 3. "PathInContainer": "/zwaveusbstick", Entities reporting status, total size (TB), used size (TB), % of volume used, average disk temperature and maximum disk temperature for each volume inside the NAS. Would also suggest moving to MySQL/MariaDB instead of SQL lite (if you havent already). Type in the IP Address of your NAS, and the port number specified when you enabled SSH above (default is 22). @home-assistant close Closes the issue. If there wasnt any discovered automatically, dont worry! One of the great things about Home Assistant is their rapid development time. I didnt think the z-wave USB would come over with that, but glad to hear it does indeed work. This is a more powerful Docker UI than Synology, but I havent used it myself. It is a file database which has to be loaded into memory. and to check what groups the account running home assistant belong to. Select root User. Adding Synology DSM to your Home Assistant instance can be done via the user While we do our best to provide accurate, useful information, we make no guarantee that our readers will achieve the same level of success. Nothing helps. Thank you 1883:1883 I think you mean the Home Assistant Supervised in a package which then itself manages all of the add-ons which are just Docker containers. Home Assistant is a free and open-source home automation software written in Python with a focus on local-control and privacy. Thank for your quick reply, my syno worked until I rebooted twice and now it is dead again. We will install Home Assistant using Virtual Machine Manager. However, it doesnt come up using the command above. Well be using SSH to connect to our Diskstation to run commands on the Linux command line. Go to Config to switch on Open vSwitch automatically. I tried getting USB running. Note: How to Free Disk Space on Your NAS if You Run Docker. Im having some trouble following how this is the supervised version of Home Assistant. Im using an Aeotec Z-stick. Entities reporting the current network transfer rates of the NAS. If youd like this script let me know and Ill share it. 2. Then just setup when you would like the restart to take place in the schedule tab. I searched for days for someone with a sollution, this might be the one thnx for this reference. Just plugging in the files to the home assistant config directory isnt enough in this case. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/setting-up-mysql-on-a-synology-nas-docker-container/16253. I can access to this path by ssh. Also, the Docker container runs as a specific NAS user which is also used to ensure that it has limited access. By default the 1min load sensor is disabled. I must stress though this instance doesnt do much at all. Sorry for the late reply, I am on a business trip in China with a very poor internet connectioc. Note:This guide works perfectly with the latest Homeassistant 2023.2.5release. Might be Saturday or Sunday though. 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. Yes. Manual configuration steps. Note: Convert Docker Run Into Docker Compose. Select Settings in the bottom left. Only problem i have is with pushbullet. Ive logged in with both Putty and WinSCP but I cant access the folder /certificate/_archive to see what the folders are inside. You will be asked to run Install Home Assistant click Yes. Seems to hover around 2.5GB. However, in the meantime, I have sadly ascertained that the Fibaro Roller Shutter 2, which triggered the need for installing Home Assistant, will not work where I intended. After following your instructions, I was If you dont see any folders like Shared etc, then you might want to create a new Shared folder from the Synology UI. Thanks Andre. I then set up my second container following this guide and renamed the old one (originally created via GUI) to home-assistant-old. 2 days later, theres another update, so I renamed the one made two days ago to home-assistant-old2. Now my GUI only shows home-assistant-old2 and home-assistant-old, but it does not show the latest one I just setup today with the latest build. Has anyone else seen this and/or knows how to get them to show correctly in the Docker GUI? 500 API push https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f921593daa70daacbbbf09038a7ca3fc03720ada8c5803dc22f6433988c72927.jpg sounds unbelievable, my guess is that i have received maybe 20 but anyway: Yeah Pushbullet recently announced they were limiting the amount of API calls people could make, which sucks! Disabling the OpenVPN connection, then starting Docker should fix this. Should these groups be visible when logged in to the NAS or are they set up within the Docker container somehow? Yeah, I found I needed to perform the rm commands in the article, before unplugging the radio and plugging it back in. You could have a Home Assistant automation, which starts the Domoticz container. Ah yes of course! That sounds pretty irritating. On DSM 6 (or greater), su - root does not work. Howd you navigate to _archive? It offers the advantages of HA OS (see above) but you get full liberty in managing the OS. Also import is the t, which tells Docker to tag the container for future use. Your tutorial seems very clear. So my only suspicion then, is that the Synology Docker UI doesnt support all of the features for a Docker container, which leaves you with either using the command line, or the UI (which will limit what you can set against the container). I'll take you through the process step . What is the advantage of MySQL/Maria over the built in database? Any ideas? I personally thought the udev mapping was a bit overkill. BR, I of course used your command, with sudo, but modified volume path and USB device (for zwave) to match my world. Navigate to the first IP address in the list and port 8123 to access Home Assistant! Did you have any issue with high memory usage on the Synology NAS docker container? However, I would suggest trying to install that Netifaces dependency inside the container. There are sensors the report the current CPU load, separated by User, System and others. Open Virtual Machine Manager, select Virtual Machine, then Create, and finally, Import. Mental not, NOTHING important goes there, Hello, This will be your z-wave USB Radio. After doing this, Home Assistant appears to have updated successfully, maintained my config, and kept my USB z-wave device attached. Response times are pretty good, if not the same as the z-stick. So, I just put the command as, https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/70ab5f4cca789f41528703831b396f7dfffa643db9c226e0d6ff4c55c4c3e09f.png. I prefer to use a free tool like Putty to do this. Strange. sudo chmod g+rw /dev/ttyACM0. If youd like to share anonymous information, feel free to do so and then select Next. Any other compelling reasons for proceeding with Home Assistant and Z-Wave when everything else is handled through HomeKit? The synology NAS hit its CPU limit first as they don't have 'that' powerful processors in the home consumer versions, where as you can throw an i7 in the PC. Someone else had the same question yesterday on YouTube , Youve done everything right. Thanks! My home assistant log is being written out to a volume but I know theres another log somewhere as I had access to it briefly through the docker interface. Regardless, Ill certainly be referencing this as I do an install on my DS214play. WunderTech is a trade name of WunderTech, LLC. We need to make sure Home Assistant has full access to our local network. As long as you specify a name in your docker run command, you shouldnt really run into multiple instances, as the name must be unique. This sensor will wake up your Synology NAS if its in hibernation mode. If you denied access to all locations and applications it is normal to receive a message indicating you do not have access to DSM when trying to login with this separate user. Reading this one in particular helped me to move my HA from a Pi 3 to my xpenology (a Dell T20 running Synology Is). The Dockerfile from Home Assistant will automatically install the Z-wave libraries for us. Well be logging into the NAS using SSH, so we can perform some Linux commands. The worst part was even after correcting the config.xml path in Docker, the lock STILL didnt work. Although now on the 13th try or so, it worked. 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. When Home Assistant 0.61 comes out, you cant just do docker pull to update your container. 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. From your DSM control panel, theres a scheduled tasks option. Did you set it up? Hmm. Check the docker run command you used, and take a look at the -v flags. Not that Im aware of. Select Upload a file from PC and Browse to the .ova file we downloaded, then select Next. 2. 3. Note: How to Add Access Control Profile on Your NAS. some sort of HA automation sequence that starts the other service and stops it? Yep! Cant open HCI socket. Once you have Docker running, you can re-connect the OpenVPN connection to encrypt your traffic again. Glad you got it sorted! This at least is true for DSM5. I get the same error message, if I run hciconfig from inside the container. -itd This is actually three commands in the one. I wanted to know if and how the Supervisor can be installed as I have to subsequently install several applications via repositary. You can change the scan interval within the configuration options (default is 15 min). If you have the Enforce 2-step verification for the following users option checked under Control Panel > User > Advanced > 2-Step Verification, youll need to configure the 2-step verification/one-time password (OTP) for the user you just created before the credentials for this user will work with Home Assistant. Interesting. A UPS for the NAS might be a good investment in the future. In a nutshell, well be using Docker to create a virtual machine (called a container). 3. If youve used a flag like net=host or something (which isnt supported by the UI) then DSM may hide it from the UI so you dont break the container. Thank you for your guide, it works perfect! The Synology DSM integration was introduced in Home Assistant 0.32, and it's used by, If you utilize 2-Step Verification or Two Factor Authentication (2FA) with your Synology NAS. Note: How to Clean Docker Automatically. I think Option 2 is where I will go, cause when I restart Hass out of a trigger, It will not come up (err_connection_refused) until I restart the docker container. Note: Best Practices When Using Docker and DDNS. Just tried them on DS I had to use a manual configuration yaml to get all of my devices populate. You can also use Dark Mode theme for your Home Assistant Dashboard! 4. Where are you trying to use the USB stick? Are you looking at the images, or containers? Copy Current Container Container > select container > Settings > Duplicate Settings > Rename (e.g. Interestingly, no matter which port I used, it always came up to the same /dev/tty address. Uncheck the Enabled option. devices : /dev/ttyACM0, < my z-wave USB sudo they will work on DSM 6. https://philhawthorne.com/ha-dockermon-use-home-assistant-to-monitor-start-or-stop-docker-containers/. Ive edited the configuration.yaml file and specified zwave: Hi Phil, If i restart hass it wont come up and if i then restart the docker Container, all is good again for 24h. Great to hear you were able to make a startup script and get everything working. Home Assistant is a free, open source program for Home Automation. 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. Now if your MySQL container is down for whatever reason, Home Assistant will still boot, but it will complain about the recorder components being misconfigured because MySQL is down. 13. My Home Assistant config isnt hosted on GitHub yet. Whatever you choose to use, the folder must exist before you will be able to start Home Assistant. ssl_key: /certificate/_archive/fyjQFl/privkey.pem. All I see is docker directly under the server name and homes. But didnt get that far at all. --restart=always This is a powerful and handy flag to set, especially for Home Assistant. thanks for your promt reply and good to see that Im not alone (means Im not totally dumb ) General: The information on this blog has been self-taught through years of technical tinkering. ]. Just opened mine up and can see them all. I could also see below kernal message (using dmesg). I am wondering if the Synology is looking for container name home-assistant with abc123, but when you update it via the CLI the ID changes, so home-assistant is now xyz987 and it has no idea what to do about it. Ive connected a (known-working) BT device to the Syno, and fired up the container. Interesting. as above drivers are not loaded by default, I had to write a startup Once logged in, use the following command to switch to the root user using the command 4. Navigate to the Developer Tools section of Home Assistant. Theres usually a new release of Home Assistant out every 2 weeks. cpu_priority : 50, got HA up and running within docker , it has found a number of devices on the network all good. This should allow the UI to see the files. To resolve this I loaded usbserial and ftdi drivers using below commands. Its just a REST API allowing you to start stop and restart containers. 7. I have tried disabling the firewall, and also tried making a any allow rule.. none worked.. 6. Yep MQTT on the NAS I highly recommend. Select your Virtual Machine Manager storage, then select Next. } You may need to run mkdir -p /homes/[user]/homeassistant/config first. Using any other account (even the admin account) just wont work. For HASS configuration, I have copies on my computer, which I use as my master then copy over to the NAS. All other commands are then just simple docker commands, which havent changed since I posted this. For example, my NAS is at 192.168.1.3, so I can access Home Assistant by going to http://192.168.1.3:8123. I guess you might be able to answer one more question for me though: Entities reporting the current and combined memory and swap utilization of the NAS. Click OK. After you click OK onSTEP 6, select your Install Home Assistant Task then click the Run tab. }, Im super new to docker and linux, so figuring this out as I go. Note: How to Schedule Start & Stop For Docker Containers. Then its a simple Settings->Import on Container screen. Change the settings to match the information below and then select Next: 11. If youre having issues getting the Docker package to start, check your network settings. 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. This is a big issue because I dont know how to edit configuration.yaml as no text editor is available in Synology ssh. So if you run Domoticz, it will fix the Z-wave issues without needing to pull the USB out? How to setup rsync on a Synology Diskstation and use it to backup data from Home Assistant to the NAS. but how do i edit the yaml files ??? and further down I could add a new section to the volume bindings like this for the USB? 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. 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