Music assistant in HA and usb | Home Assistant | Page 1

rare stump Dec 30, 2024, 3:34 PM

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Hi, i have HA running with proxmox and installed the media assistant. Now i want to add my music library that is on an USB Stick. Can anyone help me how to do that ?

jade harbor Dec 30, 2024, 3:54 PM

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Proxmox has USB hardware passthrough capability, but it might be easier if you just connect to the Home Assistant using smb and transfer the files. You can install the SMB integration using HACS

If you can, maybe put up a networkshare with your media on it, then have Home Assistant mount that share. That way, you have a single location with your media files

rare stump Dec 30, 2024, 4:00 PM

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My HA is too low on space to import the files. So i choose USB solution. I forwarded the usb device as MediaUSB in proxmox to the "central"..

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Now i forwarded the usb device in the virtual maschine..and reboot ha

rare stump Dec 30, 2024, 4:27 PM

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But i can not see the usb names

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I did lsusb in the command line of ha. It shows me 2 devices. But lsblk is not available/installed and mount shows nothing of value to me

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In proxmox it is "usb1"

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Not sure, if i need to enable some "disk" for the usb in proxmox additionally

jade harbor Dec 30, 2024, 4:46 PM

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I'm not that familiar with how proxmox forward the device to the VM. How are you running Home Assistant in proxmox, as a HAOS virtual machine or as a container?

rare stump Dec 30, 2024, 4:47 PM

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I am not sure about that..how can i identify it ?

jade harbor Dec 30, 2024, 4:47 PM

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If you were running it as a container, you would know (because you'd have had to run the supervisor separately too). So moving forward with the assumption it is a vm, according to this, it should show up https://community.home-assistant.io/t/usb-passthrough-with-proxmox/408278

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ooh, here's a better one https://smarthomescene.com/guides/how-to-passthrough-usb-devices-to-home-assistant-in-proxmox/

SmartHomeScene

Proxmox USB Passthrough to Home Assistant VM

This article covers two methods for properly passing through USB devices (Zigbee/Z-Wave/Bluetooth Dongles) to Home Assistant VM on Proxmox.

rare stump Dec 30, 2024, 4:58 PM

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Ok, i can see the device in the HA console now.

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How can i see the filesystem ?

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(seems my console has no lsblk command)

jade harbor Dec 30, 2024, 5:31 PM

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I'm not sure if you directly access the file system in the same way. Go to the /config/storage page is see what it lists

rare stump Dec 30, 2024, 6:15 PM

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this is the device

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but if i enter it in here...

jade harbor Dec 30, 2024, 6:19 PM

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Ah, I see. When it comes to Linux mounts and by-id, it's a bit outside my area of expertise. Just to make sure it's mentioned, have you reboot the HAOS machine since the new mount?

rare stump Dec 30, 2024, 6:19 PM

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yes

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(the virtual ones, not the real pc

jade harbor Dec 30, 2024, 6:21 PM

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yep, that's the one I meant, just in case the mounts list is only read on startup (unusual, but can happen). You might also find some help on the hardware channel, but I'll stop bothering you with ineffective advice 😄

rare stump Dec 30, 2024, 6:23 PM

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smile i am very thankfull ! It brought me some steps further and i appreciate any help !

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