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lament monolith Jan 1, 2025, 2:52 PM

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Hello,
I'm a big newbie when it comes to yaml. I've been trying to make my bash script work, but I can't get it to run. I'm using the HA supervised version on Raspberry pi 4B 64-bit.

My automations.yaml

- id: "1735718708324"
  alias: test3
  description: ""
  triggers:
    - trigger: state
      entity_id:
        - input_button.damn
  conditions: []
  actions:
    - action: shell_command.script_test
      data: {}
    - action: input_boolean.toggle
      metadata: {}
      data: {}
      target:
        entity_id: input_boolean.reset_homeassistant
  mode: single

My configuration.yaml

default_config:


frontend:
  themes: !include_dir_merge_named themes

automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml
shell_command:
  script_test: /bin/bash /usr/share/hassio/homeassistant/shell/test.sh

I'd gladly appreciate any help!

lament monolith Jan 1, 2025, 3:09 PM

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This is the step detail of the shell command action:
Executed: January 1, 2025 at 4:08:33 PM Result: params: domain: shell_command service: my_host_script service_data: {} target: {} running_script: false

lament monolith Jan 1, 2025, 3:35 PM

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I tried this with a script and it doesn't work either: (scripts.yaml)

test1_2:
  alias: test1
  sequence:
    - service: shell_command.script_test
  description: ""

I get the following error when running the script:

Action shell_command.script_test uses action script.test1_2 which was not found.

prime blade Jan 1, 2025, 3:42 PM

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Are you certain it didn't work?
Try running the shell_command action in developer_tools/actions?

lament monolith Jan 2, 2025, 1:22 AM

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prime blade Are you certain it didn't work? Try running the shell_command action in develope...

I'm most definitely certain, I tried various bash scripts and none of them worked even the most basic ones that just created a blank file or appended text to txt file

lament monolith Jan 2, 2025, 4:01 AM

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prime blade Are you certain it didn't work? Try running the shell_command action in develope...

Okay, so from what I understand, the issue is that since I'm running Home Assistant in a Docker container, I only have access to the mounted HA directories, not the entire file system. This made my file paths incorrect. Now, I’ve run into a bigger problem though, because I need access to my /home directory for many of my scripts

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Also, I can't use the packages I have previously installed. That's another major issue

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Is there any workaround or better way to run bash scripts with root file system access?

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I've tried the SSH addon, but I apparently can't run anything outside the docker file system

lament monolith Jan 2, 2025, 5:23 AM

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@prime blade?

near sentinel Jan 2, 2025, 11:33 AM

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How have you tried the ssh addon if you are running HA Container? Add-ons are not supported with that installation method.

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The more general answer to your question is that HA needs access to the folder(s) your bash scripts reside in and operate on. For HA container, that means adding those locations as volumes in docker, and then adding them to allowlist_external_dirs

lament monolith Jan 2, 2025, 2:07 PM

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near sentinel How have you tried the ssh addon if you are running HA Container? Add-ons are no...

Like I said in the first post message, I'm using the supervised version which allows add-ons

For HA container, that means adding those locations as volumes in docker, and then adding them to allowlist_external_dirs
Could you please elaborate on how I could do this? I'm not used to docker at all and HA supervised doesn't use a docker-compose file as far as I know😅

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