I just got my device today, it was really excited to get it set up and control my matter devices. I did not appear in Home Assistant… I kind of knew that it wasn’t going to and I had to do something to link it to the container going into this. However, when I finally decided to look for documentation on how to get it set up, nothing really was there. I am still quite new to Home Assistant and I’m not familiar with a lot of the more complex functions. If anyone can provide me with a good way to make this work please do! Thanks.
#How do I set up SkyConnect(ZBT-1) With Home Assistant Docker Container on Synology NAS?
worthy pilot
cursive crag
The HA container is usually set up as privileged so it has access to all devices already. See if you can enable that.
worthy pilot
The HA container is usually set up as `privileged` so it has access to all devic...
Was working through the steps and got hung up on changing the paths, I already have the container set up. Is it just possible to go into the environments tab and add a new variable and some kind of path to the USB device?
cursive crag
Probably not.
worthy pilot
Probably not.
Is there another way then?
cursive crag
I don't know. I don't use synology devices. Did you read this? https://philhawthorne.com/installing-home-assistant-io-on-a-synology-diskstation-nas/
worthy pilot
No, but I can’t even find the path to my USB device, I run “ls /dev/tty*” and i get 325 unique results. And I’m saying unique because even after unplugging the device running the command again and comparing them. It was 100% different from the outcome I got last time.
cursive crag
Well that link was linked in the docs I linked so I hoped you would have read it.
Try unplugging the stick and then run dmesg -Tw as root. Then plug the stick in and share everything that was logged afterwards.
Also check ls -l /dev/serial/by-id/.
worthy pilot
Whoops, meant to say yes, because I did read it and I did try some of the things, but to no luck. I will try this though. Thanks.
worthy pilot
Ok, unplugged the stick and ran the command Then plugged it back in and the only new information that appeared was...
[Sun Dec 8 16:31:58 2024] usb 1-3.2: new full-speed USB device number 14 using xhci_hcd
I don't know if that was what I was supposed to get but that's what I got
Then I ran ls -l /dev/serial/by-id/
And Got, ls: cannot access '/dev/serial/by-id/': No such file or directory
cursive crag
Hmm. That's not good. I'm unfortunately not too familiar with synology's system but I heard that it's very limited and restrictive.
Maybe you could get yourself a used (U)SFF PC instead?
worthy pilot
Maybe, do you think there’s any other way to connect my Synology NAS to the thread network and get my eve matter devices working?
cursive crag
No idea about thread but there's ethernet coordinators.
young arch
I think the SMLIGHT SLZB-06M can do thread over ethernet with home assistant's otbr. (Not recommended to use wifi)
cursive crag
Maybe I just haven't seen the light yet but thread is very uninteresting to me. I didn't really look into it much to be honest. What I can tell you is that the chip is the same as in the ZBT-1 if that helps.
young arch
the main reason thread isn't that interesting yet is simply because there aren't that many devices using it yet :/ admittedly, a bit more variety if you include homekit over thread - but there's really not much using matter over thread at all right now.