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fallen lichen
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It is

knotty dune
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@fallen lichen how do you recommend I fix my config?

fallen lichen
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What's the output of the curl command, the full output

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err wget

knotty dune
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@fallen lichen I am not sure what you mean by curl command. Can you please explain further?

fallen lichen
knotty dune
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wget returns try wget —help for more options.

fallen lichen
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wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hacs/get/main/get

knotty dune
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@fallen lichen wget: invalid option — ‘0’ usage: wget [option]… [url]…

fallen lichen
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That's a letter O

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It's literally the same command on the HACS install page

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Just asking for the copy/paste output

knotty dune
fallen lichen
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That is not the command I provided

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I feel like the root of your problems may be not having an SSH session where you can copy and paste commands to

latent thistle
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I have HAOS installed on a ADATA 256GB SU750 attached to RPI4b using a StarTech.com USB 3.0 to 2.5" SATA III Hard Drive Adapter Cable w/UASP via a powered USB 3 hub. RPI4 is powered via a CanaKit 3.5A adapter.

I lose connection to the HAOS, during which times I can ping the rpi4 but can’t access the HAOS homepage. Even add-ons are inaccessible
If I restart just the rpi4 HAOS starts normally and remains accessible for a few hours.

which logs I should look at to find the cause of this?

queen dagger
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hi,
I've just upgraded my truenas core server to truenas scale and have to reinstall all my app/plugins including home-assistant
I have a dataset with my previous homeassistant installation (following these instructions: https://github.com/tprelog/iocage-homeassistant/wiki/external_dataset)
How can I mount the dataset in my new homeassistant app (using the truecharts app installation)
EDIT: alternatively, I could settle for overwriting the current default homeassistant configuration and database file from my recent home-assistant installation from my backup in the dataset. Then I would create a cron job to backup the configuration files

rough falcon
bronze arch
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Currently on docker (core-2022.7.7) and saw that there is a newer release (https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/11/02/release-202211/) how do i update to it?

Going to Settings -> System -> Updates, says that there are no updates available, in the 3 dot menu for the updates page it has on option to leave beta channel, so should i do that?

manic bane
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Which hopefully you have a docker compose file to make it easy

bronze arch
manic bane
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That's a docker pull command yes

queen dagger
# rough falcon You should be able to just add your existing dataset as external storage to the ...

I can add the dataset as external storage (a simple mount point).
The question is given the base directory tree of home assistant, what should be overwritten from the dataset.
I currently have two PVCs:

  1. db: with a data directory containing a postgresql database (a bunch of files with a pg_ prefix)
  2. config: with the rest of the installation, namely the .storage directory, a bunch of yaml files and init, tts, deps, custom_components and blueprints directories
    I don't know how to override the base config directory such that it is replaced with the dataset (anyone know how to do that?), but I guess I could replace the files with symbolic links to the dataset files in a mounted directory.
    which of the files must I replace such that my previous installation is restored?
humble mirage
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Ultimately all of them, everything in your config folder

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You can skip deps/ and tts/

queen dagger
humble mirage
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No idea, I don't use PG, but I'd assume that you have to point your new PG server at that folder

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This is a good opportunity to think about how you backed all this up before, and how you were planning on restoring it

queen dagger
# humble mirage No idea, I don't use PG, but I'd assume that you have to point your new PG serv...

on 2nd thought I don't think my plan is a good idea, since truecharts manages the configuration directory by overwriting the files.
so the next time the app is updated or some system configuration is changed, the symbolic links would be overwritten by a new file
the way I see it, I have two options:

  1. copy the files from my backup to the new app, and make a periodic job that copies the files to the bkp dataset
  2. find a way to point the PVC to the dataset
    the 2nd option is more robust (and cleaner), but requires PVC/K8S knowledge that I don't have. Any advice on how to do that?
humble mirage
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I've no idea what PVC is

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(other than the plastic)

rough falcon
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PVC is persistent volume claim... True charts app runs in kubernetes

queen dagger
humble mirage
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Yeah, I don't know anything about TrueCharts/TrueNAS at that level - and I doubt there's a lot of folks here that really do (other than Troy)

rough falcon
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And Im still using a hack to run just native docker without all the kubernetes complication.

queen dagger
humble mirage
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automations.yaml

rough falcon
queen dagger
# humble mirage `automations.yaml`

it (automations.yaml) has been copied, and has the sctipts.
The script in question triggers an action on a Tuya device when a Shelly relay is pushed. both tuya and shelly devices are recognized by homeassistant and can be operated manually.
Any clue why the automation script does not work?
How would you debug it?

humble mirage
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I'd start by checking to see if the automations are found and loaded by HA

queen dagger
rough falcon
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Yes sorry. It's intended as all or nothing.

queen dagger
humble scaffoldBOT
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@queen dagger When using Discord's Reply feature it defaults to pinging the person you reply to, which can get frustrating for the target. Use Shift + click on the Reply option, or click @ ON to @ OFF to stop this - on the right side of the compose bar.

You have to change this every time (thank the Discord devs for that).

humble mirage
queen dagger
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I'll have a look
and sorry about the pings (I don't see the @keen rose/@off option)

humble mirage
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It's right there when you hit Reply - on the right side

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Exactly where the image shows

keen rose
humble mirage
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You have the most unfortunate Discord handle

keen rose
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That's my name 🤷‍♂️

humble mirage
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(except for the other Tinkerer, who gets random pings...)

humble mirage
keen rose
grand pivot
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@keen roseYesThatsMyName

keen rose
paper oyster
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That was it btw 😄 Though I had planned on opening up the machine and cleaning it out prior to putting it in its permanent home and configuring HA, and in the process of disassembly completely biffed it. C'est la guerre.

grand pivot
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the corollary to "don't release the magic smoke" is "don't remove the magic dust"

inland acorn
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Anyone know where to get more info on installing onto VMware? It seems like there should be a VMX file and I cannot get the VMDK file to boot

fallen lichen
paper oyster
wintry nexus
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I am on core, is it possible to edit the configuration file from inside the homeassistant browser page?

copper steppe
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without addons? you need file editor/browser addon

brisk willow
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or just another web-based editor with an iframe button in the sidebar

copper steppe
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I think he's running core with no addons?

brisk willow
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yes, that doesn't change what i said though 😄

copper steppe
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google for your case; there's probably instructions. what kind of pc/case?

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I had to google how to open my lenovo tiny pc thing yesterday 🙂

manic bane
copper steppe
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I thought you said you had problems opening the case? Couldn't find the magic screw?

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or rather, theoreticalsandwiches

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Was replyiing to
[8:25 AM]TheoreticalSandwiches: I didn't even get to that point, I couldn't get it open to clean it, there was a magic screw that I just could not find.

manic bane
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Yeah you didn't reply to anyone so it was very confusing order

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Since you can do reply but not ping if that's your concern

copper steppe
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Sorry 🙂

humble scaffoldBOT
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@still hedge I converted your message into a file since it's above 15 lines :+1:

📎 message.txt
still hedge
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Surely something simple, any help would be appreciated. Thanks 🙏

viral cairn
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Hi there,
After Upgrading my new Yellow to 2022.11.2 the following 3 repair warnings showed up and I wanted to know, what I can do about those. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Unsupported system - Systemd issues
Unsupported system - CGroup version
Unsupported system - Operating System
humble mirage
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Surely something simple any help would

candid loom
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Hey guys does anyone maybe know how I screwed up duckdns for my server? It doesn't send information to smart things or aws

humble mirage
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DuckDNS doesn't send any information to anybody

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DuckDNS resolves your hostname to your public IP address - the one from your ISP - and nothing more

candid loom
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But I can fully access with my phone or pc

humble mirage
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Can you access with your phone when you're not connected to your WiFi

candid loom
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Yes

humble mirage
candid loom
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It does say the port is open going to check ssl labs quickly

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Ssl labs doesn't support port usage like :8123

humble mirage
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Then Google around and find one that does shrug

candid loom
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Ok

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Ssl shoppers ssl checker said my ssl is working %

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100

humble mirage
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Then you know the problem isn't at your end

candid loom
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But it isn't working for smart things or aws

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To set up alexa

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But when I used nginx' http port with aws it worked kind of but it kept saying unauthorized in logs

humble mirage
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Maybe those both require you to be using port 443?

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And unauthorized could mean many things, without seeing the actual logs we'd be guessing

candid loom
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I used the correct tokens for alexa it was supposed to be working and ai did exactly the same before my hassio died

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it worked before my hassio died

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And when I used nginx I couldn't access my server on my wifi but could access using mobile data

humble mirage
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That shouldn't have caused more problems, if anything it should have simplified things since you can go direct (no SSL) locally if you want

candid loom
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Exactly what I'm breaking my mind about

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Or I think I found a problem I 'll put this in pastebin this time

humble mirage
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That's coming from something trying to set up the same webhook ID as already exists

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Typically that's from an automation in my experience

copper steppe
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looks like smartthings

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I think I had exactly that error with exactly that integration

candid loom
copper steppe
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iirc I uninstalled the untegration and restarted HA before reinstalling it

candid loom
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I'll check if can find something of iirc

candid loom
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I couldn't find something with iirc but I'm rebooting to see if the addons and integrations I uninstalled fixed it

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Could it be the fact I had nginx stopped but not running?

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It still doesn't seem like its working let me try updating hassio

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Still not fixed

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And I unlinked the cloud because it said something of webhooks amd I don't want to pay every month

manic bane
candid loom
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Probably with port forwarding I can try

candid loom
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8123 is also enabled

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When I go to the webhooks page smart things is trying to access it says method not allowed so it is trying to access it but something is breaking my head

manic bane
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Hmm unsure then

candid loom
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Yeah and I also have set the internal and external urls in the config file

humble mirage
candid loom
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But it must be something with lets encrypt

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On duckdns

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Is there something I should add to the aliases?

humble mirage
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LetsEncrypt just gives you a cert, it isn't involved int he connection either

candid loom
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Then I really don't know what to do I'm so damn confused

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I actually want to let someone on to my server and let them see for themselves because I'm clueless

candid loom
humble mirage
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You already appear to have working remote access, since you say you can access HA remotely with your phone

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If you have valid SSL certificates and can access HA remotely then the bits I can help with are working

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I'm not even sure what you're doing any more, whether you're using a proxy or going direct to HA, or ...

candid loom
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I'm going direct no proxy

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I think something is up with my servers api because alexa wont work either but google assistant does work

jaunty viper
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hi to all, i have an installation running on a PI4, i'ts not an HAOS, how can i check if it's a doker installation or a core installation? i don't remember it

humble scaffoldBOT
humble mirage
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Heh, it's not there any more

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configuration -> Repairs -> dotsvertical

humble scaffoldBOT
jaunty viper
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in settings i show repairs as a list, not as a submenu

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ok, i foud it!

manic bane
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To confirm it is public, can you confirm it does not begin with 192, 10, or 172?

jaunty viper
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ok, I'm running a supervised installation on raspbian, and from the last 2 updates I've already noticed pending repairs (journal, OS and AppArmor). I only need to run a few things on the same machine alongside HASS, so I can't use a dedicated PI for HAOS, and I can't use a second board just to have an OpenVpn client and some iptables routes. Do you think a new installation with the Containered version can solve these problems?

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manic bane
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Okay so that's a super unsupported system

jaunty viper
manic bane
jaunty viper
manic bane
jaunty viper
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why Super Unsupported?

manic bane
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Supervised means you have to dedicate your machine to HA

humble mirage
manic bane
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Raspbian is not debian 11 either

humble mirage
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Switching to Container from Supervised is the only sensible solution

manic bane
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^^

jaunty viper
manic bane
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Yes

humble mirage
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Well, "issue" ... not really

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Just follow the docs

jaunty viper
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no no, not issue, just it's how contaniners works

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a full backup will work also restoring to different install method?

humble mirage
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You'll have to manually restore it

jaunty viper
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of course, after fresh install i'll upload backup and start a restore

humble mirage
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You'll have to restore it manually

jaunty viper
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question is if after upload and restore, all works again or if due to different intall method, somethink must be manually restored

humble mirage
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There's no UI support for restoring backups in Container

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None of your add-ons will come across

jaunty viper
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oh.... nice..... seems will be some differences in this kind of install. i need to find something more to read about it

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so, supported os to run supervised, actually are only HAOS and debian 11. Raspbian, is not debian, but i'm reading i can install debian 11 on raspberry pi 4, so i can next rebuild my actual environment: hass supervised and my other stuff on same machine, with a fully supported os

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is it right?

humble mirage
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Yes, but did you read the rest of the ADR?

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You can't install any other software, none, zero, zilch

jaunty viper
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sorry, probably i'm missing something: supervised means i install hass in my OS, not in HAOS, right?=

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so i have full access to system, why i can't install something?

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and as i sayed, something stand for vpn client a some iptables stuff

humble mirage
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You can't, because that's what the requirements say

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If you install other software then at some point it's going to flag as Unsupported and/or Unhealthy and either it'll stop allowing updates, or worst case it'll simply stop working

jaunty viper
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ok, i understanded it now

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so, at this point, what is the advantage to use my own os if i can't use it for other purposes but i still have to manage it?

humble mirage
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None

jaunty viper
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as i thinked!

humble mirage
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Supervised only makes sense when you feel that you really need add-ons, have a computer that HAOS won't run on, and have strong Linux and Docker skills

jaunty viper
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ok, it's clear now

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my only chanche, before to dedicate the bord to hass, will be to try to install in supervised and assure openvpn will be recognized as an unwanted software from hass. if recognized..... i have to find where configure my vpn

manic bane
jaunty viper
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wireguard will be a good alternative, but iptables rules can't be solved

manic bane
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What do you need iptables rules for

jaunty viper
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lan to lan access

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gateway has routes pointing to PI's ip

manic bane
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If wireguard can't do what you need then you'll want another machine or deal with container

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Because you haven't read the requirements and things will break

jaunty viper
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tanks to all for explains mates

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just last thing: actual install on raspbian as supervised, will have issue on short times?

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or i'll just have alerts?

humble mirage
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You'll likely have issues

jaunty viper
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ok, thanks

humble mirage
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By all means, ignore us and the ADR and do what you want, but don't expect much help if you do

manic bane
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Either do HAOS or Container. Avoid supervised

jaunty viper
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haos will be my choice and i'll use an old PI3 just for vpn

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thanks to all

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need to find how to boot from SD and move os to ssd

candid loom
little swift
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is everyone runnin OS 9.3 already, just noticed its a release, and no longer in beta?

zenith lodge
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Hi all, completely new to HA and after 4 days of struggling (tried to instal a VM on nuc without succes) managed to instal HAOS ! How long does the prep in browser usually take? (Max 20 mins but its been 25+ already 😅)

humble mirage
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Depends on the speed of the computer, the storage device, and your Internet connection

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Click on the blue circle to find out what's going on

zenith lodge
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Thanks! I can see it’s been stuck on something for the past 10 mins but I’ll give it some more time. Already happy I can see more happening than before!

fallen coral
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I'm not sure what I did wrong but I clearly did something wrong.

I neglected my HA for a while and tonight I decided to get back to it. I did all the steps for remote access, DuckDNS, Lets Encrypt, DNSmasq (my router doesn't support NAT loopback) and I had everything working fine, except I couldn't get access on the app on my iPhone when connected to my home network, only when using cellular data, though my laptop worked on my home network.

But now I have an even worse problem. My HA IP was 192.168.1.69 but now it seems to be 192.168.1.73 according to my router and when I go to https://192.168.1.73 it wants to me setup HA as new. I know very very little about networking but I assume this may have something to do with a DHCP lease. How do I force my HA IP back to .69 so I can access it again because right now I have no access to it at all it seems. And once I do get it back, how do I make sure that HA stays with the same IP without changing again?

Thanks!

humble mirage
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Are you sure you don't have a second HA install?

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IP allocation is handled by your router though, make sure it's allocating a static lease

fallen coral
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I only have 1. I was working on it as .69 then all of a sudden I tried to login and couldn’t. Logged into my router and it was now .73. How do I ensure static lease is allocated?

humble mirage
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That's handled on the router, whatever it is

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Click around the DHCP settings and see if it offers static leases

fallen coral
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There was something about assigning an IP to a MAC. I tried that and assigning .69 to the MAC for HA but HA still shows as .73

brisk willow
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It won't take effect until after the DHCP lease is renewed. You could potentially force that to happen on the host depending on the host OS

brazen herald
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If it's macOS: System Settings > Network > Click on your connection > Details > TCP/IP > Renew DHCP lease.

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Substitute "System Settings" for "System Preferences" on pre-Ventura releases

fallen coral
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Alright I’ll give that a shot, thanks all!

fossil pine
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Hey Guys, I am trying to update a 2021.2.2 build, but I am having problems accessing the supervisor dashboard... I also don't have the ssh addon installed, though I cannot update or maintain it through the cli. Is there anybody that can help?

candid glen
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Hey all. I'm trying to update home assistant core on a Raspberry Pi 3 from 2022.10.5 to 2022.11.2. The update fails with the error "image doesn't exist" when trying to pull the docker image for rpi3 2022.11.2. I went to the github page where the docker image is hosted and it does indeed exist. I'm stuck and unsure how to proceed. 😦

zenith lodge
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Can someone help me by answering a few novice questions? I bought a nuc with with windows pre installed for HA (new to this, i thought it would be easy) tried installing vmware (bootdisk) but didn’t recognize my network drivers. People on reddit recommended HAOS given that I’m new to this “would be easy” they said. Should I uninstall windows from my primary drive as it starts up windows by default or should I always reuse the bootdisk? (What do you have?) next issue, earlier i thought I had managed, nuc actually gave me the URL however… on my phone it took more than an hour to set-up so I cancelled wanting to try this again. Is this common or am I really the black sheep (self pitty)?

nova acorn
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Hey everyone, I installed a new router today and got assigned a new external IP address. The internal IP of Home Assistant has been set to a static IP. I am using the Nginx Reverse Proxy addon to access my DuckDNS configured Home Assistant instance. The weird thing is, is that I only can access my instance externally via the DuckDNS domain. Trying to access my instance via DuckDNS internally doesn't seem to work. My http config is listed below:

http: server_port: 8123 use_x_forwarded_for: true trusted_proxies: - 127.0.0.1 - 172.16.0.0/12 - ::1 - 172.30.33.0/24 ip_ban_enabled: true login_attempts_threshold: 3

humble mirage
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Trying to access my instance via DuckDNS internally doesn't seem to work
That requires your router to support NAT Reflection or Loopback NAT

fallen lichen
zenith lodge
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Right now I only want to use HA, get familiar and comftable with it etc. in 3 to 4 months we're moving and I can consider doing other apps/things alongside it. Initially I tried installing a VM (VMWare) but I got a message my networkcards were not found. Making a custom bootdisk for this was impossible both from a lack of experience (never used powershell) and I tried 2 videos, kept running into problems.

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From what I read it's a very common problem with NUCS and there's community drivers etc but the powershell part is what I got stuck on and why I decided to try HAOS. - edit- my second question is, after the initial set-up on my NUC I get a link that I can visit (i did it through the app on my phone)in which it's setting up what I assume to be the interface. there's a lot of lines processing the set-up and a message saying it can take up to 20 mins. but for me it got stuck.

copper steppe
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I nuked my sff pc windows 11 and put proxmox (a hypervisor) on it, and installed a few VMs/containers, including HAOS. Love it!

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You can run HAOS in virtualbox if you want, then it's completely isolated from the host OS. That works pretty well too.

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Did you click the little circle thing to see the logs, see what it was stuck on?

fallen lichen
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But I'm also not clear.... you're not booting HA OS from a flash drive, right?

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(cause you shouldn't)

copper steppe
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HAOS on vmware should be pretty straightforward, and not depend on your physical hardware at all

fallen lichen
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Guess it depends if it was Workstation or ESXi, kinda assuming it might've been ESXi if there were driver issues and a bootdisk was mentioned

copper steppe
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ESXi is it's own OS, the OP mentioned he was running on windows?

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So I'm assuming workstation

fallen lichen
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Lots of questions 🙂

brittle sail
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He’s an obvious candidate for haos no need to complicate it

copper steppe
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Yeah, if he doesn't mind nuking windows, and doesn't need anything else on the box, go HAOS

grand pivot
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why not just follow the docs?

manic bane
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If you installed container then you don't have the supervisor so no add ons

grand pivot
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and that, too

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mistakes have been made

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That could be clearer

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You still won't get addons, though

manic bane
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You can use zigbee with ZHA without needing add ons

grand pivot
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You can install whatever you like alongside your HA container

manic bane
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Or run Zigbee2Mqtt in another container

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Do not need add ons for that

fallen coral
fallen lichen
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Did something else grab it?

fallen coral
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Nope

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Everything kept the same IP when I renewed.

fallen lichen
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Did you try just rebooting the box

fallen coral
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The router?

fallen lichen
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No the box w/ HA

fallen coral
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Oh, no. Should I?

fallen lichen
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Wouldn't hurt just to rule that out.

fallen coral
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Okay doing it now

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Okay so I did that and it came back online now as .69. But I still can't login using duckdns link or IP...

fallen lichen
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"or IP"?

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As in your 192.168.1.69:8123 doesn't work?

fallen coral
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correct

fallen lichen
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What's the error? Timed out?

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Can you ping it

fallen coral
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https://192.168.1.69:8123/ gives This site can’t provide a secure connection192.168.1.69 sent an invalid response.
ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

fallen lichen
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use http

fallen coral
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That brings me to the HA onboarding page, not my HA setup that I had

fallen lichen
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What is it installed on

fallen coral
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Proxmox

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DuckDNS link brings me to the HA loading page but just spins forever then errors out.

fallen lichen
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What happened between it working and it restarting onboarding

fallen coral
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So yesterday it was working on .69 then all of a sudden it logged me out and I saw in my router is was .73

fallen lichen
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You don't happen to have >1 HA VM?

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The only way I know of to restart onboarding is to nuke a bunch of stuff in .storage

fallen coral
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No I don't have more than 1

fallen lichen
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Not sure then if you're saying you did nothing at all between the 2 events, seems like something may have gotten corrupt.

fallen coral
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Yeah I didn't do anything abnormal I was just logging in, redid the steps for making duckdns work, I ran some updates, and tested a few devices. All was good

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I did have a problem in the past where I would get the duckdns link to work and then a few minutes later it would stop working and I'd have to access it via the https and IP instead of duckdns URL

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And that same problem happened again yesterday too

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Is my old HA gone now? Do i have to upload a backup and start that way?

fallen lichen
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Possibly? I mean in Proxmox you can try typing
login
ha core logs | more

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and see if there's anything exciting there

still schooner
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Morning all. Just starting out got a Raspberry Pi 4, 8GB SD card & fresh install of Home Assistant thanks to the Raspberry Pi imager. At the screen telling me 'Preparing Home Assistant'. So while I wait is there anything a noob like me needs to know?

fallen lichen
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SD cards aren't recommended 🙂 But if you must, update the recorder config and severely limit what you log and the commit interval

still schooner
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64GB USB3 stick any good & how would I move over to it?

fallen lichen
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That's basically going to be the same as your SD card

fallen coral
manic bane
manic bane
fallen coral
fallen coral
manic bane
manic bane
fallen coral
manic bane
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So HAOS

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I hope you have backups though?

fallen coral
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I have backups set to my google drive

brisk willow
manic bane
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So I would say best thing is restore your backup then

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Since something in your storage has gone wrong

fallen coral
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Okay thanks, i'll do that. Is there any way to ensure this doesn't happen again besides assigning that IP to HA?

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Just got a new backup in my Drive from my old HA so it's still running...

fallen coral
manic bane
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If it's doing backups then you're on a secondary instance

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Also wait, you're accessing your instance at [ip]:8123 right?

fallen coral
manic bane
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Question for you. Why did you install it through proxmox

fallen coral
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By restart host do you mean just restart the computer it's installed on?

manic bane
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If you don't know how to use proxmox

fallen coral
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Because that seemed to be the most recommended option and after following a few tutorials I felt like I had the hang of proxmox well enough that it seemed like a good option

manic bane
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You don't have the hang of proxmox if you didnt even know how to access it.

Are you running any other VMs on this computer

fallen coral
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I did know how to access it, like I said I haven't had to deal with proxmox since I initally set it up. At the time, I could work my way around it pretty easily. But ti's been a while.

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No

copper steppe
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@fallen coral when you do a restore, it looks like it's not working, with no progress bar, for like 20 mins. Then you might even need to reboot.

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If you have question about proxmox + haos, then I can probably help (that's what I have).

fallen coral
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Yeah it would just reload the page and bring me back to onboarding

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Can I just create a new account and upload my backup in there somehow?

manic bane
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Honestly if you don't have anything else running and don't have a plan to, then just install HAOS directly on your hardware

copper steppe
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it takes long time. looks like it did nothing. but it's working in the background

manic bane
fallen coral
# manic bane Yes

Where within HA do I go or how do I do this? I did google it but didn't see a conrete answer

manic bane
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Under backups

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But seriously would recommend nuking your install and just running HAOS directly on the hardware instead of proxmox if you don't plan to run other things on the hardware

copper steppe
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If your proxmox is working fine, then it's really no hassle.

manic bane
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Except for unnecessary overhead and complication

copper steppe
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shrug

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overhead is small, and it's flexible. plus you can do a one-line haos install
bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/main/vm/haos-vm-v4.sh)"

manic bane
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Which they didn't do anyway

copper steppe
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nah they didn't 🙂

manic bane
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And I'm just not a fan of saying virtualize when a) we don't know the hardware being used, and b) when it's only HAOS there's no advantage to proxmox

copper steppe
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but if he's asking how to create an account, he doesn't know HA either 🙂

manic bane
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No, that's not the issue. His issue is he has a working install somewhere except now it's asking for onboarding steps

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Whilst also working

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@fallen coral just to sanity check, are you using the latest backup or a backup from before everything started to go wrong

copper steppe
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hasn't he clicked the "restore" and uploaded a backup? Just need to wait a while. It's sucky UI for restore.

manic bane
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That's also what he's tried

fallen coral
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I tried both.

manic bane
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I would say a reinstall of HAOS at this point

fallen coral
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And basically start everything over from scratch?

manic bane
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No? You still restore from backup

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Just seems like something is heavily broken with your install

fallen coral
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Except trying to restore from backup did nothing. There are only 2 backups in there and I tried both

manic bane
copper steppe
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Are you sure you gave it long enough to do the restore? It's pretty slow, and has no feedback

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And you may need to browser-clear cache etc

manic bane
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I find creating an account, then restoring from the backup to work better

fallen coral
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Is there anywhere I'd be able to see if the backup is uploading? Anything in Supervisor?

manic bane
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Nope

copper steppe
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It's crappy UI

fallen coral
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It asks for a backup password, is there any way to know if I'm inputting the correct password? Or do I even have to put one in?

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I also get this in Supervisor:
22-11-11 20:50:24 ERROR (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.module] Can't read tarfile <securetar.SecureTarFile object at 0x7fc526d8e8f0>: not a gzip file
22-11-11 20:50:24 ERROR (MainThread) [supervisor.backups.manager] Restore 1dc66eca error

manic bane
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Well that's not your backup file then

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Or are you unzipping it first

copper steppe
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Sounds like a problem 🙂

manic bane
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Can you send a screenshot of what your backup files look like in Google drive? Just the file name and extension is what we need

humble scaffoldBOT
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Please use imgur or other image sharing web sites, and share the link here.

Image posting is blocked in most channels to discourage people from sharing text as images. Sharing text as images assumes that everybody sees the world as you do, which isn't the case. Some people are colour blind, or have visual impairment that means they can't make sense of an image of text.

copper steppe
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In my google drive they're just .tar files

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❯ ls -l ~/Google\ Drive/Home\ Assistant\ Backups
total 2619104
-rw-------  1 simonroberts  staff  312954880  4 Nov 08:06 4 November 2022.tar
-rw-------  1 simonroberts  staff  261068800  2 Nov 14:25 Full Backup 2022-11-02 14:25:02.tar
-rw-------  1 simonroberts  staff  373534720  7 Nov 08:06 Full Backup 2022-11-07 08:06:39.tar
-rw-------  1 simonroberts  staff  393420800 11 Nov 08:35 Full Backup 2022-11-11 08:35:21.tar
manic bane
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Yeah and I'm guessing these aren't otherwise that error wouldn't be there

fallen coral
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Full Backup 2022-11-10 06:00:00.tar

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Is the last one from before this issue started

copper steppe
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It might be talking about one of the gz that are inside the tar...

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❯ tar tvfz ~/Google\ Drive/Home\ Assistant\ Backups/Full\ Backup\ 2022-11-02\ 14:25:02.tar
drwx------  0 root   root        0  2 Nov 14:26 ./
-rw-r--r--  0 root   root     1276  2 Nov 14:25 ./a0d7b954_sqlite-web.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  0 root   root     5026  2 Nov 14:25 ./a0d7b954_ssh.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  0 root   root      189  2 Nov 14:26 ./addons_local.tar.gz
-rw-------  0 root   root     1251  2 Nov 14:26 ./backup.json
-rw-r--r--  0 root   root     3744  2 Nov 14:25 ./cebe7a76_hassio_google_drive_backup.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  0 root   root     1667  2 Nov 14:25 ./core_configurator.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  0 root   root 261027251  2 Nov 14:26 ./homeassistant.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  0 root   root       182  2 Nov 14:26 ./media.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  0 root   root       182  2 Nov 14:26 ./share.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  0 root   root       180  2 Nov 14:26 ./ssl.tar.gz
manic bane
fallen coral
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And when i unzip it, I can see all my add ons that I had in there like duckdns, etc

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Yes

manic bane
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Don't unzip it to install

fallen coral
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I'm not unzipping to install. I unzipped to see what was in it if it was from before the issue or from after

copper steppe
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I've successfully restored from my google-backup tars a week or two ago. Worked OK.

manic bane
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And you're restoring the backup by creating a user account -> then going to backups and clicking upload/ restore/ whatever it's called?

fallen coral
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Yes I am in the new account, went to backups, it shows both my backups there, I select the one from 2 days ago, it asks for password and restore then I click restore then it says are yous ure and i hit restore then that window goes away, HA loses conneciton for a bit then says HA is back online after like 30s

copper steppe
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Sounds like restore worked. Did you do a hard-reload at that point?

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Maybe even restart HA too

crude inlet
#

I would reboot the host after a full restore

manic bane
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Try restarting proxmox as well

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Just to have everything running fresh

fallen coral
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I rebooted everything, no dice

copper steppe
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still asking you to enroll? sorry I have no idea man

manic bane
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Sounds like try a reinstall as your install is broken somehow

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Then restore from backup

copper steppe
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Isn't that what he's doing? Except the restore is failing?

manic bane
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No? He hasn't reinstalled anything

copper steppe
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OK I didn't read the start of the thread

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If he's in proxmox, run the script, get a new install 🙂

fallen coral
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Okay i might have found the solution. I found a note in my phone with all my HA passwords and found the proper password for my backups. This one seems to be taking longer than the rest so fingers crossed.

copper steppe
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hahah, cool. more sucky UI experience for HA though

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Fixed?

fallen coral
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Nope. Can't even get the page to load now. And can't even see it connected to my router. It's showing homeassistant with 2 different IPs but neither of them work

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To do a clean install I need a keyboard and monitor for my pc right?

crude inlet
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Did you restore a duckdns SSL config? You're using https:// if so?

fallen coral
#

And thank you to @copper steppe and @manic bane for your patience with me. Very much appreciated!!

copper steppe
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Wahoo.

zenith lodge
zenith lodge
zenith lodge
zenith lodge
copper steppe
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You probably need to change your bios so it boots from usb, rather than disk first.

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The write proxmox to a usb, and boot/install it

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Nuking the entire disk (including windows) is pretty much the default install. Get it booting, we'll walk you through it

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TLDR download the iso, write to a usb, do basic config (network in particular). After that, I tend to use the proxmox helper scripts to do haos install - https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/

copper steppe
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Install is super easy. Takes 5 mins once you have usb written

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I did it last week

zenith lodge
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It does boot from usb but on restart if it boots from c its windows again. Should i keep booting from usb? ( genuine question)

copper steppe
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No, you didn't install it correctly I guess. It should have nuked the C: completely, should be no windows left.

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I'm currently running HA, pfsense (firewall), heimdall (dashboard), kuma uptime (uptime monitor), node-red (uh, decision engine), and an ubuntu container. All works nicely.

zenith lodge
copper steppe
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"esxi as vm"?

zenith lodge
copper steppe
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Esxi is a hypervisor itself, you don't want to try and run it inside something else

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proxmox is a fairly-lightweight virtualisation manager, broadly the same as ESXi. Install both on bare metal.

zenith lodge
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I have to go in a few minutes but will you be around later today?

copper steppe
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Maybe for the next hour or so. It' s 6:20pm in my timezone

zenith lodge
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I can tell you in s chronological and better way what i tried and how it failed

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Ahh

copper steppe
zenith lodge
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I’ll give that a try.

copper steppe
manic bane
copper steppe
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Yeah, proxmox is way more easy-going than esxi

viral cairn
zenith lodge
zenith lodge
#

Hi all,
I posted last night but was in a bit of a rush and seeing how there were some questions I figured I’d write out what my struggles are and hopefully someone with more knowledge/expertise can help me fix this. To give a good context I have to start at the start. I know a bit about IT but I’m no expert, never used a VM but have always been interested in tech and eager to learn.

  • Few days ago (Last Tuesday) My nuc arrived. I ordered it from amazon.de (despite not being german) - Mini PC Intel Celeron J4005 2x2,0GHz 16GB RAM 1000GB HDD Bluetooth 5.0 HDMI RJ-45 USB 3.0 Windows 10 Professional.
  • It came with Windows (in german) pre installed, as I do not speak the language I struggled for a day trying to change language settings but eventually downloaded the iso and re-installed it in English expecting HA to simply be a program I could run in windows (What do I know?)
  • Wasn’t sure what version of HA to use and why I would need a VM but eventually was told by a friend to download ESXI (8.0) and make a bootdisk. The ISO was giving me driver issues (network) and so a dead end.
#
  • “Download the ESXI ZIP and make a default ISO” was the next step, I followed 2 YT Videos both using powershell to integrate the community drivers but in the first videos the commands weren’t being recognized and the second wouldn’t find the VM (according to the video I should have been able to see a list). Again a dead end.
  • Posted on reddit and was told I shouldn’t over complicate and install HAOS directly. Made a bootdisk for HA. Installation on the server was successful I could see the URL. Used my phone to download the app and do the set-up on “that side” however after an hour nothing happened. (tried 3 times, sorry I didn’t note down the error I eventually found)
  • Posted here, download proxmox. seemed a promising solution. Downloaded, placed on USB and made bootdevice. Installation ran for 3 second then black screen.
    With all the above what has been consistent is windows. Each of these methods should have cleared windows (right?) and replaced it with either the VM or HAOS but upon restart there it is again…

Does anyone know what I can/should do? Would anyone have some time to guide me through this cause this is going further and further above my knowledge and it’s come to a point that I feel rather shit for spending 250+ on the nuc thinking the install would be easy.

manic bane
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Windows won't just reinstall itself, you're just not wiping/ installing on the main drive of the nuc

fallen lichen
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Also, that seems wild it comes w/ a 5400RPM drive, maybe a good first upgrade 🙂

minor skiff
#

I have installed HA about 4 times now and some of the app just doesnt work. the Addons page stays blank and then finally errors out AND the zwave plugin will not start, just error after error. i have tried the OS version and the debian docker installs.. both do the exact same thing.

manic bane
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Docker install does not have an add ons page though...

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Unless you mean you're doing supervised in which case stay away

minor skiff
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i did do the supervised

manic bane
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Yeah don't do supervised install. Just try HAOS

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And I imagine something is wrong with your install method then

minor skiff
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i did the vmware version of the HAOS first and it does the same thing..

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it has supervised too... right?

manic bane
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Yes HAOS is a better option than supervised

minor skiff
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addons page does the same thing.. errors out.. and zwave never installs or works

manic bane
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What's the error?

minor skiff
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Could not load the Supervisor panel!

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and zwave just says it cant start

manic bane
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Logs would be helpful

minor skiff
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[supervisor.docker.manager] Image homeassistant/amd64-addon-zwave_js:0.1.74 does not exist for addon_core_zwave_js

manic bane
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Are you restoring from a backup or doing fresh install?

minor skiff
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fresh

manic bane
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Then provide more logs (through a text sharing site) and someone should hopefully be able to help

humble scaffoldBOT
#

Please use a code share site to share code or logs, for example:

Please don't use Pastebin, since it can randomly add spaces to the main view. Please also don't share text as images since it makes it harder for people to help you. Remember that others may have colour blindness, impaired vision, etc.

minor skiff
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let me install the HAOS again

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first

wooden smelt
craggy cosmos
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Super quick yes/no question: when I run HAOS in RPI4 for first time, it shows some checks and green "ok" next to tests extremely fast(cant read but maybe 1 or two fast) then goes to a black screen. I didn't see any NOKS. Is the screen supposed to be black while it does the "up to 20 minutes" first time setup?

minor skiff
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might have found the issue.. when its downloading amd64-addon-zwave_js from docker.. its going extremely slow.. in the last 20 minutes its downloaded 1.638MB of 39.94

queen dagger
minor skiff
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the pain...

fallen lichen
queen dagger
# fallen lichen Not with that integration
  1. would it be possible to overwrite the backup directory as a symbolic link to the desired directory?
  2. you said: "not with that integration". Is there another integration you recommend that provides the additional flexibility of setting the directory?
humble mirage
#

How do you run Home Assistant? HAOS, Container, Core, Supervised?

queen dagger
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a container (a TrueCharts app in TrueNAS scale)

humble mirage
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Then you can use any external backup solution you want

queen dagger
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can you give an example?

humble mirage
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rsync, rsnapshot, urbackup, duplicati, kopia, duplicity, ...

minor skiff
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everything else but this works fine

humble mirage
queen dagger
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thanks. If I understand correctly, all these backup options are not integrated to home assistant.
Which files/folders do I need to include in the backup?

humble mirage
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Right, so you backup whatever you mapped to /config

queen dagger
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thanks.

brittle sail
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lmao

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<@&330946878646517761> we have another spammer today

atomic valve
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?ban @shell burrow

odd larkBOT
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:dynoSuccess: Ferosin#1906 was banned

brittle sail
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thanks

muted imp
#

does it make a difference really if i install cloudflared and adguard home inside my home assistant VM vs separate docker containers?

low notch
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cloudflared is supposed to be some % faster than regular proxying but I have no experience with that

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doesn't really make a difference if you install adguard in haos or any other machine

copper steppe
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@zenith lodge did you get the install sorted?

muted imp
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thank you @low notch - ive been playing around with my "new" nas, HA, nginx, cloudflared, etc., trying to figure out what works and doesn't so I just factory reset my router and NAS and am going to start fresh

muted imp
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apparently it didn't like my * in my domain - still learning yaml I guess :d

narrow ridge
#

Hi there, I've had home assistant up and running for a few months now, it's worked perfect. but the last couple of days my https url isn't working, I can access via homeassistant.local, but accessing vis https isn't working.

it's a managed via self hosted nginx proxy manager, I can access my other sites fine via the SSL certs made, but home assistant isn't working, I've deleted and recreated the cert and still nothing, checked site url settings in home assistant, all checks out

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it's on a vmware vm

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hmm, restarted vm, got an error, but it works.

eternal jungle
#

I've been running HA Core. I'm trying to migrate to container. I've stopped my core installation, then i copied all my files to the docker file directory, and i've started a new docker image (via portainer) that is the same version as my old install. But its giving me the onboarding page. Am I missing something obvious here?

manic bane
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Is the docker directory mapping correct?

eternal jungle
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I mean thats the most obvious answer. Its weird. I first went through the onboarding and made a temp installation. Then i copied over my old files and it didn't work.. only the new temp installation login was accepted

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but i cleared out that directory and then was presented with the onboarding page again

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could it be permission related?

manic bane
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Who knows with portainer

eternal jungle
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Now its weird i see logs that are clearly from my custom install in the portainer thing. But i'm still getting the onboarding page. Should I not be using portainer? Is it recommended to just use docker without any other layer on top of it?

manic bane
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It is a lot easier. But this may also be browser cache if the logs are saying otherwise. Try opening your HA in private browser window

eternal jungle
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No dice. I'm going to try to set it up with the standard installation method on the documentation

#

wtf i'm getting the same thing that way. i'm upgrading from 2022.7.6 by the way. this time i tried to skip to the latest stable version of HA figuring the DB would update too

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actually ive got a directory issue let me fix that and keep debugging soryr

muted imp
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anyone know where let's encrypt addon in HA puts the generated certificates? thought it would be somewhere like /data/letsencrypt/live/ like in the log but i can't seem to find where that's at

grand pivot
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/ssl?

eternal jungle
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alright this isn't working.... docker, portainer both do the same thing. if i look in the docker log it shows messages that are clearly from my installation. but when i go to the website it looks like a clean install and I can't get past the onboarding page. Note when i turn my core installation back on it starts up right away. if anyone has any ideas what i might be missing let me know.

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For now i'm just sticking with running my core installation

manic bane
copper steppe
#

Back. Ready to help:)

pliant gust
#

Ever time I try to install home assistant from an image it does not boot. Tested the SD card with R PI OS it works just fine anyone have any ideas?

copper steppe
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The installer does not boot, or haos post-install?

pliant gust
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I get nothing when I boot I can see files but nothing appears no installer no text nothing

manic bane
pliant gust
manic bane
#

Weird

zenith lodge
copper steppe
#

I don’t remember your story. But trying ten things isn’t usually the solution. Try one thing and persist.

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Can you give me the tldr?

dense turret
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Hello, has anyone encountered problem of installing hassos 9.3 in VM, it does not run if there is no Internet? I noticed that the time daemon does not start during loading, and page Preparing Home Assistant is displayed indefinitely. I didn't notice such problems before, what should I pay attention to?

copper steppe
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Needs internet to install at least

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It pulls some images

dense turret
#

Thank you! I'm already looking at the log files, he wants to download a lot. Yes, unfortunately without the Internet to install it will not work.

manic bane
humble mirage
muted imp
#

im literally dying trying to get my nginx proxy manager VM on HA to talk to my domain!! i keep getting bad gateway when it tries to redirect so I think i have to change something in my nginx conf except i have no idea where i can find it

humble mirage
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Are you using the NGINX/NPM add-on?

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(also to visit ER, dying isn't good for you)

tender wren
#

I have installed HAOS on the eMMC of a Raspberry Pi CM4 using the original CM4 IO board. So far it is working. As soon as I add an NVMe using an m.2 to PCIe adapter (as planned data disk) it doesn't boot anymore. When I look at the HDMI output, the OS crashes after it is loading env (current device mmc0) - the last message is Starting Kernel ....
Anyone got an idea what went wrong and how to fix it (except removing the NVMe 😆 )?

dense turret
humble mirage
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It won't help, you need functional internet until all of HA is downloaded and configured

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Any time you add an integration, you need functional internet

muted imp
humble mirage
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So, not literally dying then 😛

muted imp
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a second at a time 😉

humble mirage
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Ain't we all

dense turret
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Apparently the reason is different

humble mirage
#

Click the blue dot, see what's going on

manic agate
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Is there a way to install nginx proxy manager on a no supervised hass version?
I am currently on synology docker hass

humble mirage
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Sure, NPM existed before add-ons did

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Just Google for instructions for your setup. If you're able to run any Docker container, follow the NPM docs for Docker

manic agate
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so I need a separate container with nginx ?

humble mirage
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Yes, and that's all that add-ons are

manic agate
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isn't possible to just add it via ssh

humble mirage
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I mean, you could try that, but as soon as you upgrade HA, or restart under certain conditions, it'll vanish

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You don't ever install software inside a Docker container and expect it to persist

manic agate
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damm, supervisor makes it indeed a better setup than other versions

humble mirage
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Better... no

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Point-n-click, yes

manic agate
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alright, I will pin a another container and look for intructions

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is there any tutorial here or shall I google it?

humble mirage
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It's not HA specific, so there's not likely to be any HA specific docs for it

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(personally I prefer traefik, but YMMV)

manic agate
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traefix?

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why

humble mirage
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If you're using Docker Traefik is pretty trivial to set up - it may not be on the NAS though

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It's also already capable of getting SSL certificates, and handles websockets by default

# 
http:
  routers:
    homeassistant:
      entryPoints:
        - "websecure"
      rule: "Host(`homeassistant.example.org`)"
      tls:
        certResolver: zerossl
        domains:
          - main: "homeassistant.example.org"
      service: homeassistant
``` and boom, up and running alongside my other containers
manic agate
#

need to look into it

#

thanks for the tip

#

need to do some reading on it\

minor skiff
#

Its seems that the HAOS is not really compatible with ESX 6.7 ??? If i install it on VMWare ESX 6.7 then the addons page doesnt work and zwave docker image will NEVER download correctly.. however, if i install it and use it in VMWare Workstation - Everything runs fine! Addons page works, zwave docker image downloads....

minor skiff
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in ESXi, other things dont work like Backups that page never loads either

eternal jungle
# manic bane Post your docker config here

Do you mean the docker command I was running? If not let me know what you mean. My command was the following (and i experimented with omitting the user_id stuff (this is my pi account user info-

docker run -d
--name homeassistant
--privileged
--restart=unless-stopped
--device /dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0
--device /dev/ttyUSB1:/dev/ttyUSB1
-e TZ=America/New_York
-e USER_ID=1000
-e GROUP_ID=1000
-v /home/pi/docker_files/homeassistant_docker:/config
--network=host
ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable

wheat birch
#

So is it best to install via the OS method? I currently have set up pi hole and homebridge on my sd card and wanted to install home assistant but looks like I can’t have add on support or supervisor support unless I start over?

crude inlet
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If you don't need add-ons that's fine

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You can run without them. Integrations are more relevant than add-ons

wheat birch
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Integrations being the accessories/devices? Add ons I didn’t no if I would need

crude inlet
humble scaffoldBOT
#

#integrations-archived integrate Home Assistant with devices or services, or provide functionality within Home Assistant.

#add-ons-archived provide additional software or services, which an integration could possibility integrate with. Add-ons are for Home Assistant OS and Supervised only, other install methods can install software other ways.

crude inlet
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Addons provide software outside of HA

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Other servers, other services.

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Like Adguard, MQTT broker, ZwaveJS, etc

wheat birch
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Hmm ok maybe I’ll back up@my homebridge and start over anyways just incase I want them before I get too much set up@too want to lol

meager heron
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hey guys, i got this warning
[warn] Could not find /etc/default/grub or /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt failed to switch to cgroup v1
any solution_

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?

humble mirage
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Are you using Home Assistant OS, or something else?

maiden plover
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Hey! I hope you guys can help me. I set up home assistant via VM. Downloaded the app on my iPhone and everything was working well. Then the app on my phone only provided me with a white screen. In an attempt to correct the problem, I uninstalled and reinstalled the app. Now my phone will not connect at all. Any suggestions?

brazen herald
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Is the VM still running?

maiden plover
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Yes.

copper steppe
maiden plover
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It's not looking like it. It's been loading for a while now.

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..and it just timed out.

brazen herald
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Then your VM may not be running, or the network can't find it at least

maiden plover
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It's working on my PC in the browser. I will try and restart the VM

brazen herald
#

Well what's the difference network wise between the PC and the phone? Assuming your PC is running the VM, the VM may not be exposed to the rest of your network.

copper steppe
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Is your VM network interface in "bridged mode"? Won't work in local-only etc

maiden plover
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It should be, it's all connected to the same WiFI....Yes it is in "bridged mode".

copper steppe
#

what IP address does "homeassistant.local" resolve to from another device on your lan? (not the pc)

maiden plover
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192.168.0.114

brazen herald
maiden plover
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Doesn't work. Same thing.

copper steppe
#

Seems like problem with your VM host

brazen herald
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Then assuming this works on other devices, the problem is your phone. If it doesn't work on other devices, then you'll need to investigate the network situation on the PC with the VM. As well as check the Home Assistant logs.

copper steppe
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Which VM platform are you using? Virtualbox , vmware, other? You may need to do some "enable external access" checkbox

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Does the web url work from another PC (Not the one hosting the VM)

maiden plover
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I'm using Virtualbox.

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So it works from my other computer

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I have also tried 2 different Iphones

brazen herald
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Do you have private relay or a VPN enabled on the devices?

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And are you trying Safari or just the app?

tawdry kindle
#

Hi all, I am preparing to transition my HA to a brand-new VM on VirtualBox, since the current production instance grew to some amazing sizes and I can't seem to get it to shrink down. In doing so, I'd like to make sure that my backup is not having any issues with MariaDB, as it's been the case before.

maiden plover
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@brazen herald No, and I have tried the app and 3 different browsers.

tawdry kindle
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The MariaDB seemed to have issues with transferring the database when a backup was being run, since it had to be fully stopped to create a proper backup. Has anyone tried running HA from a full backup with MariaDB lately and can confirm it to work??

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Or should I stop MariaDB and create a backup, which will cost me about 1h of data stored?

brazen herald
wheat birch
#

So installing home assistant there isn’t a desktop is there?

brittle sail
wheat birch
high token
maiden plover
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@brazen herald I have a 2.4GHz and 5GHz. Everything is connected to the 2.4GHz

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wheat birch
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So from the dos like screen is where I’d install homebridge as well?

brazen herald
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No, because you can't install HomeBridge on Home Assistant and don't need to

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If you want to share devices to HomeKit: HomeKit Integration, if you want to add support for another device, check HACS

humble scaffoldBOT
wheat birch
brittle sail
brazen herald
#

That doesn't change the truth of my statement. HAOS won't let you install HomeBridge, and Supervised would, but it breaks the terms of installing Supervised

brittle sail
tawdry kindle
# high token that should no longer be an issue <https://github.com/home-assistant/addons/pull...

Sounds fantastic! Do you by any chance know if the fact the tables are locked results in the data being collected in the background and at the time the backup is finished the data is back populated in the DB? The reason I am asking is my automated backup at night takes about 45-60 minutes but I am not loosing any data there.
This makes me think the DB is either not locked or it is, while the data is being buffered for that time period.

wheat birch
brittle sail
#

That doesn’t make sense

brazen herald
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The question is: what will you get by running both at the same time except multiple systems to maintain?

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Because if you really want both, you'll need to do the container install of HA

tawdry kindle
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Besides the question above, have there been any improvements to allow backups beyond 1GB? My backup is 6.9GB total, so it's always a pain to run a new HA, created an account, install SSH or Google Backup Addon, load the backup, etc. as compare to simply using the 'alternative' to login and loading the backup file.

maiden plover
wheat birch
brazen herald
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No, but there is an Adguard addon

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I have yet to find a single device that HA doesn't support and HomeBridge does.

brittle sail
wheat birch
#

Ok well I’ll give it a shot then, I’ve only got a few devices so far but was using HB no issues so will try this out

brittle sail
#

You’ll never look back man

wheat birch
brittle sail
#

Plenty of good YouTube tutorials for almost anything you’d want to do

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You can google home assistant [thing you want] and get pretty far

meager heron
wheat birch
meager heron
#

Can't understand how to fix this, any help? already checked the learn more link

Unsupported system - AppArmor issues
System is unsupported because AppArmor is working incorrectly and add-ons are running in an unprotected and insecure way. Use the link to learn more and how to fix this.

brittle sail
brittle sail
wheat birch
#

Ok thank you

brittle sail
#

It’s a ‘go have fun wild wild west’ install method with supervised man

meager heron
brittle sail
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It breaks over time if you aren’t literally keeping up with updates and requirements

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Your best bet is probably copy files off, install latest, restore files

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And then watch it break again in the future

meager heron
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i justed formated and installed, but it's ok, im not to worry to be honest, and about this on?

System is unsupported because the wrong version of Docker CGroup is in use. Use the link to learn the correct version and how to fix this.
any idea?

brittle sail
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Either use the container or haos install in a vm

meager heron
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those are the 2 error that i got
im using Raspberry, but can't use OS, whats the best way ? (if possible with addons, thats the problem )

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HAOS

brittle sail
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Can’t use os?

meager heron
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HAOS, because I need rasp for other thinks, or it's ok with the HAOS and add my thinks on in? never used HAOS tbh

brittle sail
#

What other things?

meager heron
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container with node apps for example (home made)

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and maybe plex server with all the stuffs on it, still not sure if i will add on the pi or not

brittle sail
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Pi and Plex isn’t great man. Pi4 with ssd boot is an okay option for haos or container install

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I think you’d like the container setup it just won’t be able to run addons (which are just containers themselves)

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So you can run your own containers that are equivalent to addons just more diy footwork

meager heron
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I had plex on PI4 and was working well ...
i will check that thanks, but, HAOS work with addons / containers?

humble mirage
#

If you want to run your own containers then HAOS isn't an option

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Only the Container install method (native Docker) is

tawdry kindle
#

I've tried but I am stuck with the syntax.

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My VMs live inside E:\VMs

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Should I navigate to my VM folder or the Oracle\Virtualbox folder, as indicated?

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Second, the <VM name> should be kept inside the parethesis as in my VM name is Home Assistant so it would be <Home Assistant> and controller "IDE" (that's the default name).

minor skiff
#

anyone know the secret on having HAOS run correctly inside of ESXi 6.7? i can get it to run and boot but nothing works... addons page, adding zwave plugin, backup page, etc.. are all BLANK and come up with an error.. it seems to work fine when running in VMware workstation, all those items work as expected.

fallen lichen
#

"with an error", mind sharing?

brisk willow
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Nah

minor skiff
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the error mostly is: Could not load the Supervisor panel!

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with troubleshooting page.. check the observer, try a reboot, check system health

copper steppe
minor skiff
copper steppe
#

tried hard-refresh on browser?

minor skiff
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i have set the hosts file on the vm itself and on my pc, that has no effect

copper steppe
minor skiff
copper steppe
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I never used observer url before - but hard refresh?

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HAOS works OK on proxmox, which is functionally pretty similar to ESXi

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Both type-1 hypervisors

minor skiff
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hard refresh doesnt work.. i have reinstalled 20 times, same issue

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if i install and run on vmware workstation player - everything works

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i can then copy stright to esxi - the same working vm... quits working.. same issues

copper steppe
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sorry I have no idea on esxi. sounds like either a networking issue, or maybe not allowing privs for supervisor

minor skiff
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its so weird.. i even installed a full Debian linux install and deployed supervisor.. same issue

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i have this virtualization server for a reason.. so i dont have to have a bunch of PI's and crap everywhere. i cant belive i cant get this vm working

copper steppe
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Seems like a problem with esx+supervisor. Sorry no idea.

brazen herald
#

Why not just do a docker install?

copper steppe
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checked esx logs for the vm to see if anything "denied"?

minor skiff
#

i tried that too.. ive been trying to install this damn thing since Friday

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i dont see anything really in the esxi logs... all looks ok

copper steppe
#

Sorry, certainly seems like an ESX problem?

jagged dock
#

couple of months ago set up my pi 3B+ to run on SSD instead of microSD due to all the warnings I was reading about SD cards always failing.
Anyway, my SSD packed it in yesterday! TF for backups hey!

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Going back to SD card to wait until my yellow finally arrives

copper steppe
#

I found the rpi3 was just a bit slow, and a "real" box doesn't use too much power anyway. I measured it about 8-9W

jagged dock
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define 'real' box?

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problem is that I already sourced CM4 and nvme SSD for yellow, with estimated august delivery. So was alway sjust trying o get the 3B+ by. Yes, it's slow, but I'm also not asking a whole lot of it.

copper steppe
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I bought an old lenovo m910q for like US$120 second hand, with SSD and 16GB ram. Small, fast, lowish power.

brittle sail
#

Yellow is still gonna suck

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I’m glad mine got delayed until I gave up and cancelled then moved to a used laptop

copper steppe
#

I ran proxmox on an old (intel) macbook pro for a couple of weeks, worked fine.

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But I moved to a sff box because it had good built-in NIC, remote management/console, and I run a few other things on it.
Put macos back on the laptop to run my CNC again

jagged dock
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One of my requirements is small and discrete, which is why I like the idea of Pi/yellow. I really hope a NC supported solution doesn't suck. I have an 8GB Cm4 and am not doing video/media streaming or anything, simply automation, energy and dashboards

copper steppe
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The lenovo stuff is like 7" square by 1.5" tall. Pretty small.

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But your requirements sound very low. I did the same stuff on rpi3 no problem.

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I don't do any "media stuff", but do run my pfsense (firewall), and a couple of tiny apps like uptimekuma and heimdall dashboard, along with whatever box/vm I feel like using for some experiment: like node-red, or ubuntu, etc.

fallen lichen
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NUC is another common option for ultra small form factor

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Kinda glad there was a Pi shortage, otherwise I 100% would've went w/ a Pi and likely have been disappointed

copper steppe
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Yeah same

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I tried to order a yellow or something, saw the lead time, and went "forget it"

fallen lichen
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Yeah, I usually need things "now" 😛

copper steppe
#

A guy on #hardware-archived bought a lenovo box like mine a few days ahead of me, so help me setup a few things

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Took like 3 days from ebay

fallen lichen
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Yup, got my NUC from eBay as well

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Was great

copper steppe
#

I don't need it as small as a rpi, so nuc/thinkcenter size is fine, and way faster.

fallen lichen
#

I feel like I'd still end up getting a case for the Pi and whatnot.... and then if you add an SSD as well, it's going to be nearly the same size and likely not as neat

brittle sail
copper steppe
brittle sail
#

I still like used laptop as a suggestion too

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You can buy used with a broken screen on eBay for dirt cheap

fallen lichen
#

For sure, especially for trying things out and all that

brittle sail
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Built in battery backup

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No for a permanent install

copper steppe
jagged dock
brittle sail
#

That’s unnecessary for the majority of users

copper steppe
#

Yeah, true, but I play with other things, and don't want a lot of boxes.

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Mostly the box also runs my firewall (pfsense)

brittle sail
#

Haos works fine and needing to manage a hypervisor isn’t what I consider a good option

fallen lichen
jagged dock
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Maybe I'll look at NUC, just a shame when I've already invested in the hard to find hardware (harder again when you're in australia)

low notch
#

you can run 4 pis and still have lower power usage than this intel box

copper steppe
#

I'm in australia dude

brittle sail
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Crikey

copper steppe
#

mstone: i disagree, was surprised to find the intel box only pulls 8-9W

low notch
#

it for sure does not when you run pfsense, ha and whatnot on it

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you're still talking bare minimum os

copper steppe
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sure it does, but I don't have the smartplug installed right now. maybe will do it later.

jagged dock
copper steppe
#

anyway, horses for courses.

low notch
#

7.5 W TDP (PL1) 35 W

brittle sail
#

Even at crazy energy prices what are we talking here? An extra dollar a month?

jagged dock
brittle sail
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He’s not suggesting a dual Xeon

copper steppe
#

Plus ebay keeps giving me coupons or discount codes or whatever

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which save a little

jagged dock
copper steppe
#

Actually, I remember, I paid a bit extra to upgrade from 8GB to 16GB

jagged dock
copper steppe
#

I can't hear the box at all, except if I put my hear on the case. It's ssd and the fan barely kicks on.

brittle sail
copper steppe
#

we pay about AU$0.30/kWh and he said he's got big solar, so won't be paying during the day...

low notch
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well I'm making $ every day with solar, I don't like to get less money off it

copper steppe
#

hahah, we get paid a pittance for export. $0.05/kWh

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I export everyday from about 0700 until 1900 right now

brittle sail
#

Australia gov hates its citizens almost as much as us Americans and our gov

maiden plover
#

Update to my issue earlier. I left, came back, and everything is fine now. Who knows what the problem was. Thank you guys for your help!

copper steppe
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heheh win

low notch
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never said anything else, but saying you run at 8-9w is just plain wrong with multiple vms on it

copper steppe
#

Next time I'm up the ladder where the box is, I'll add a smart-switch to mine, so I can see what it actually uses. My box reports about 3-4% cpu usage, and most of that is haos (some fairly high-frequency polling integrations).

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They're mostly just containers, except for haos and pfsense. But 3-4% cpu usage isn't much more than idle. Will put a plug in when I'm next there.

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I don't remember if haos was installed when I measured 8-9

jagged dock
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I'll put some thought into the lenovo box or a NUC after work today.

copper steppe
#

And my array is split east/west, so it gets power for longer, but probably less of it

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where are you at location-wise?

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I'm in cr*ppy-weather victoria 🙂

jagged dock
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That's a big system! I'm all north, shade from 3pm but still maxing at 112 kWh or so ona clear day this time of year. MNC NSW. Getting OT here but happy to talk solar on the side.

copper steppe
jagged dock
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Have to get my #installation-archived back up and running so I can share stats from HA! I don't have a spare sd card lying around.

copper steppe
#

virtualbox is short-term solution

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restore from a backup, easy

manic bane
copper steppe
manic bane
#

Go to the Vic energy compare website

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See what else it can give you

copper steppe
#

I did, got the free $, I don't think anything was much better... But I was in the middle of getting 3phase+solar connected at the time, so didn't want to rock the boat.

manic bane
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Since the default offer is usually the highest and that's 0.3 for ausnet, rest are all 0.24 or so (this is for your supplier, not who you purchase from)

copper steppe
#

My supplier is United Energy

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😦

Energy used last week: 58.44 kWh
Energy exported last week: 468.96 kWh

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Still get big bills because when it's cold/wet/cloudy, we use far too much power. And when it's hot/sunny we use basically nothing.

manic bane
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Their energy easy portal was old and crappy though. And a rip off from a few others portals too lol

manic bane
copper steppe
#

energyeasy is afaik a third-party product

manic bane
#

Yeah and now they've got their own

copper steppe
#

I need a calculator to look at my historical peak/offpeak/shoulder usage, and multiply by the prices...

viscid sigil
lusty fiber
#

Hi. how to fix constant reboots of my HAOS installation? It is installed under virtual machine managed by proxmox. Hardware - minipc using N5105 and 16gb ram. It reboots a few times a day

copper steppe
#

Need to figure out the cause. Mine doesn't reboot.

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is it running out of memory? how much did proxmox give ha?

manic bane
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Logs would be useful too

lusty fiber
copper steppe
#

So switch back. 5.19 has a few issues.

lusty fiber
manic bane
#

You will probably have to use something like the vscode addon to view the log with a -1 in it

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(aka before the last restart)

copper steppe
#

On that note, memory usage, is it normal for HAOS to consume all that it's given? It's a VM, is it just using it for cache whatever, and it's not in danger of OOM? Mine says 95%

manic bane
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Are you talking about what proxmox says?

copper steppe
lusty fiber
#

Cannot add screenshot here. At time of halt a ha linux kernel provides a call trace and force a halt

copper steppe
#

use imgur to upload

lusty fiber
manic bane
manic bane
zenith lodge
copper steppe
#

Excellent

copper steppe
left dock
#

Hi all, News question here and hope this is the right channel for this question. I had Duckdns working fine before and could reach my HASS instance via their service. I switched Router and thus redid the port forwarding for port 8123. But now, when I navigate to my DuckDNS-url, I land on my router's login screen. Obviously, I don't want this to happen. Does anybody know what I should do to land on my Home Assistant instance?

When I add :8123 to my DuckDNS url it does send my to my Home Assistant instance.

humble mirage
#

It's possible your new router can't forward the admin port it uses. Does it support changing the port?

manic bane
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Also check what it does if you're not on the same network (eg on mobile data) as your router login page publicly accessible is not good

left dock
left dock
manic bane
#

Check if your router has an external management setting

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But also just get a new router. Put your current one in bridge mode (if you even need it)

left dock
#

I will get a new Router soon. I just wanted to have my home assistant app working again.

manic bane
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Cant you use the old one for now?

left dock
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That was my old ISP's router and I had to send it back to them.

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Will get a good Router that fits within my Unifi ecosystem.

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Thanks for the help!

buoyant coyote
#

Hello, how can i edit the HA configuration file? (I installed HA using docker and portainer)

humble mirage
#

Edit it with any editor of your choice, outside of the Docker container

buoyant coyote
humble mirage
#

If you mapped the container correctly it's on the host

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You can access it with any editor

buoyant coyote
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I created a volume

humble mirage
#

Right, so ... it's on disk there

buoyant coyote
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okay, i will try, thanks

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is this the path?

humble mirage
#

Yes, but ... you've told Docker to use a Volume, you shouldn't be messing directly with the folder

buoyant coyote
#

um, so how can i edit it then?

low notch
#

Copy your files out of there and create a proper volume bind mount for the container. Recreate the container with this and profit

buoyant coyote
#

so "proper install" shouldn't be in volumes?

humble mirage
#

It's even what's shown in the docs

buoyant coyote
#

awesome, i followed some stupid tutorial

humble mirage
#

You should always check what the docs say - many tutorials are misleading, outdated, or just boneheaded

#

Some of them set you up for failure

buoyant coyote
#

👍

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okay

#

i think i will just do a clear install of HA

#

Are "the automation guy"'s videos good?

brazen herald
#

Videos get outdated very quickly and are hard to update a small section of

humble mirage
#

What ... what did I just say?

#

If you want good guidance, use the docs

buoyant coyote
#

No, sorry, i didn't mean the tutorials how to install or do something

humble mirage
#

All videos date fast. HA releases new features monthly.

buoyant coyote
#

👍

brazen herald
#

Videos being "good' or "bad" is objective, but never assume that because someone has made a good video that all their things are good. There's more than one way to solve every problem.

#

Use things as inspiration, not a template.

buoyant coyote
brazen herald
#

It's ok, lots of us speak other languages 🙂

buoyant coyote
# 
version: '3'
services:
  homeassistant:
    container_name: homeassistant
    image: "ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable"
    volumes:
      - /PATH_TO_YOUR_CONFIG:/config
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro <------ What does the ":ro" mean?
    restart: unless-stopped
    privileged: true
    network_mode: host
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humble mirage
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ro means read only

buoyant coyote
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okay thanks

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now the adguard home container will be more pain

humble mirage
#

Not really, same applies to it

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Stop it, copy/move the config folder to somewhere sensible, update the config, start it

buoyant coyote
#

yes, but i will have to set it up again

humble mirage
#

No

buoyant coyote
#

I just don't get it, how can i move the files

humble mirage
#

Ah, linux basics...

# 
cd /var/lib/docker/blah/blah
sudo cp -pr * .??* /my/new/location
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Or

buoyant coyote
#

yes, i know that

humble mirage
#

Ok?

buoyant coyote
#

gimme a sec

#

there is nothing in the directory

humble mirage
#

Then check the config for the container

# 
docker inspect -f '{{ .Mounts }}' containerid
buoyant coyote
# 
Error: No such object
#

oh missspelled

#

sorry

#

Okay once again, i am stupid

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it's there

brazen herald
#

Stupid is unable to learn, you're finding your feet 😉

buoyant coyote
#

Can we just forget the last 30 minutes?

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😄

humble mirage
#

Everybody screws up at first, and most of us never stop

#

If you never make a mistake it's because you're not really trying

#

Or, to quote one comic, Failure is not an option. It is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do.

buoyant coyote
# 
adguardhome:
    image: adguard/adguardhome
    container_name: adguardhome
    restart: unless-stopped
    privileged: true
    network_mode: host
    volumes:
      - /opt/adguardhome/conf:/conf
      - /opt/adguardhome/work:/work
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For some reason it doesn't take the config file when pasted there

humble mirage
#

Did you docker compose up -d adguardhome?

buoyant coyote
#

yup

humble mirage
#

Then I'd inspect the container and ensure it really worked

buoyant coyote
# 
[{bind  /opt/adguardhome/work /work  rw true rprivate} {bind  /opt/adguardhome/conf /conf  rw true rprivate}]
humble mirage
#

Then check the container logs to see what's going on

buoyant coyote
#

Nothing there... last log was 1 hour ago

low notch
#

there is more than 1 way of doing this

#

you might get more luck with docker cp homeassistant:/config .

buoyant coyote
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nvm, i just set it up again

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but now i am just wondering where are the files stored

low notch
#

you could save a lot of time by just following the official documentation

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instead of working around it

buoyant coyote
low notch
#

it does

buoyant coyote
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I am talking about adguard home

low notch
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what is the problem with adguard?

buoyant coyote
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That after reinstall, it doesn't talk with already existing config file (pasted from before)

low notch
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whats the real problem? setting up it up new is just setting a user/pw

buoyant coyote
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all my settings

low notch
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and yeah, this channel is generally about homeassistant, nothing else

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your settings have to be in /opt/adguardhome/conf

buoyant coyote
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they are

low notch
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(at least if you use the compose from above)

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well then you didn't read the official documentation again

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says /my/own/confdir:/opt/adguardhome/conf

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far from /opt/adguardhome/conf:/conf

buoyant coyote
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yes?

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wait what

humble mirage
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The bit to the right of : is the path inside the container and you don't change that

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    volumes:
      - /data/adguard/work:/opt/adguardhome/work
      - /data/adguard/conf:/opt/adguardhome/conf
``` that's from my own config,
buoyant coyote
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thanks

low notch
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your problem is mainly another benefit of using docker. applications on linux can put their configs pretty much wherever they want, by using docker you can have them all in the same place if desired (I recommend this). so next time you set something up you don't have to look in a bazillion places where everything is

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inside the container they will still be in different places (/config for ha, /opt/adguardhome/conf for adguard e.g.)

sterile violet
humble mirage
sterile violet
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I've been asking in reddit, official forums and discord, but no response so far :/

humble mirage
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You want the #zwave-archived channel, that's where the Z-Wave people hang out

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Please don't crosspost to get attention, you'll get the wrong kind of attention

sterile violet
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how should I get help when there is no response?

humble mirage
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You waited two fecking minutes from your post in the Z-Wave channel

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Why don't you have a little patience?

sterile violet
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this is not the first post

humble mirage
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You realise the whole world isn't lurking here, waiting for you to post and to spring into help

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It is here for this problem

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Many people don't also lurk on the forums, Reddit, etc

brazen herald
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Timezones also exist. For most of Europe it's the middle of the working day. For the East coast the morning, and the West coast is still asleep. Australia, etc.,... not sure, but either way 😉

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Posting the same thing in multiple channels doesn't mean that people will be more likely to answer, quite the inverse. Plus, if it was in the right channel and no-one answered, posting it in the wrong channel will just muddy the waters.

sterile violet
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maybe if the documentation is better worded, it might be easier for everyone , just a sugestion

humble mirage
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Good news, once you know the answer you can submit an edit to help the next person

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This indeed is how most of the docs get improved - people see things that could be better and help out

gaunt forge
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Guys, I've moved my HA install from dedicated on Raspi 4 to Docker. On beforehand I've created a complete backup. (.tar file). Can I restore tis to the new docker HA?

humble mirage
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You have to restore that manually

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Un-tar it to the location you want to use

gaunt forge
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Well, I am not that of an advanced user (yet), if I understand correctly I have to untar it and store these files on the SD where docker is running?

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And then replace those files towards the location on DOCKER?

humble mirage
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Well, sort of

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Did you not use Docker before?

gaunt forge
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I have not indeed, first time on Docker

humble mirage
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Ah, if you used HAOS before you do know that by using native Docker you get no add-ons?

gaunt forge
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Yeah I do

humble mirage
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That's fine if you're happy to learn about Docker, but if you want the same experience you're not going to get it

gaunt forge
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I understand that it wont be the same experience, i'd really love to start working with docker (but not buy a second pi for the same). I just cant seem to find any way to restore my back up :/

humble mirage
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So, pick a location that's going to hold your Docker compose file, and your HA config, and all the other containers, for instance my Docker host has:

/data/docker - compose file
/data/zigbee2mqtt - Z2M config folder
/data/homeassistant - HA config folder
etc
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Then the https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux#docker-compose would look like

version: '3'
services:
  homeassistant:
    container_name: homeassistant
    image: "ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable"
    volumes:
      - /data/homeassistant:/config
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    restart: unless-stopped
    privileged: true
    network_mode: host
brazen herald
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Mine is nearly identical, but I called my folder docker. 100% recommend that approach

humble mirage
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I can back up /data and get everything

gaunt forge
humble mirage
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If that's what you want

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Remember the :/config part doesn't change

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You only change /data/homeassistant

gaunt forge
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Yeah that's fine I guess

humble mirage
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Well, there's no guesswork here - if you don't use :/config then your config folder doesn't get mapped correctly, and when you restart or upgrade you lose everything

gaunt forge
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I think I do not follow completly

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My HA is now running in Docker correctly, and I've mapped the following volumes

humble mirage
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    volumes:
      - /data/homeassistant:/config
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the path on the host
gaunt forge
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Volumes
Host/volume Path in container
/config /home/piadmin/HomeAssistant/config
/localtime /localtime

humble mirage
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    volumes:
      - /data/homeassistant:/config
                            ^^^^^^^
     This is the path inside the container
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You got it the wrong way around - what does your compose file look like?

gaunt forge
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I've set it up in Portainer, dont know where to find the complose file

humble mirage
gaunt forge
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Can i pull the composefile using SSH?

humble mirage
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No idea, I have a strong dislike of Portainer and wouldn't touch it with any length of pole

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You look though to have switched the paths

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Host: /home/piadmin/HomeAssistant/config
Container: /config

gaunt forge
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Unfortunate I cant sent a screenshot, let me check if I can get it any clearer 🙂

humble scaffoldBOT
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Please use imgur or other image sharing web sites, and share the link here.

Image posting is blocked in most channels to discourage people from sharing text as images. Sharing text as images assumes that everybody sees the world as you do, which isn't the case. Some people are colour blind, or have visual impairment that means they can't make sense of an image of text.

gaunt forge
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These are the mapped volumes in Portainer

humble mirage
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Yeah, you flipped the paths the wrong way around

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Host: The computer running Docker
Container: the container, duh

gaunt forge
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Shouldn' be to hard to remove the container and recreate the same with correct paths then

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Let me check

low notch
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docker has the power to create stuff while you spin up those containers, so you will end up with a new folder structure for every wrong attempt 🎉

gaunt forge
humble scaffoldBOT
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@gaunt forge Discord isn't like IRC, you don't have to tag people on every response. Keep in mind that every time you tag somebody, they get a notification ping. That can very quickly become annoying and people may block you.
When using Discord's new Reply feature it defaults to pinging the person you reply to, click @ ON to @ OFF to stop this - on the right side of the compose bar.