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fast furnace Oct 18, 2025, 10:06 PM

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Hi all, just discovered home assistant and wanting to run in on laptop (macos if it matters) to see how it looks. Hope that someone can help me as I can't access the dashboard.

My docker compose

➜  ha-compose cat docker-compose.yml 
services:
  homeassistant:
    container_name: homeassistant
    image: "ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable"
    volumes:
      - ~/ha:/config
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - /run/dbus:/run/dbus:ro
    restart: unless-stopped
    privileged: true
    network_mode: host

Running it with:

➜  ha-compose sudo docker compose up
Password:
[+] Running 1/1
 ✔ Container homeassistant  Recreated                                                                                                                                     0.1s 
Attaching to homeassistant
homeassistant  | s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: starting
homeassistant  | s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully started
homeassistant  | s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: starting
homeassistant  | s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully started
homeassistant  | s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: starting
homeassistant  | s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully started
homeassistant  | s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: starting
homeassistant  | services-up: info: copying legacy longrun home-assistant (no readiness notification)
homeassistant  | s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started

It looks like it started but it doesn't serve anything on localhost:8123 or 192.168.1.4:8123

Thanks in advance!

slate spruce Oct 18, 2025, 10:12 PM

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I don't suggest using a shell shortcut like ~/ha. Instead use an absolute or relative path like ./ha

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Non-Linux docker didn't used to support host networking, either

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You're better off running HAOS in a VM

fast furnace Oct 18, 2025, 10:15 PM

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slate spruce I don't suggest using a shell shortcut like ~/ha. Instead use an absolute or rel...

This probably does not matter as files get created at that path. (Tried it with absolute path but no results)

fast furnace Oct 18, 2025, 10:16 PM

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slate spruce You're better off running HAOS in a VM

hm tried it with virtualbox but found docker easier to understand, are you saying that recommendation is to use vm?

slate spruce Oct 18, 2025, 11:23 PM

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fast furnace hm tried it with virtualbox but found docker easier to understand, are you sayin...

Yes

fast furnace Oct 19, 2025, 12:10 AM

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I have run it inside VirtualBox and it looks like it is started ( I have access to ha commands).

I have pinged the port and ip and it is open:

➜  ~ nc -vz 192.168.1.15 8123
Connection to 192.168.1.15 port 8123 [tcp/*] succeeded!

But when i try to access it over chrome

This site can’t be reached
http://192.168.1.15:8123/ is unreachable.
ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE

Do you maybe have a hint what I am missing?

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Never mind, for some reason it works on firefox

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