In the process of replacing my old HAOS which I had my mqtt broker and z2m installed as Add-ons. My new HA instance is currently in Unraid as a VM (homeassistant_inabox) but decided to have Mosquitto and Zigbee2Mqtt as docker containers instead of HA add-ons.
I was able to properly configure the Mosquitto broker and the Z2M in Unraid, tested to add devices and so far so good. In Z2M, I checked Home assistant integration for preparation.
Now, this is where I'm a little lost because how do I integrate the external mosquitto and z2m into my HAOS? I tried to install the MQTT integration in Devices/service -integration --> Put in the IP of my external broker/credentials and looks like it took it. I'm not even sure I have to do that.
All the tutorials that I see are just Mosquitto/MQTT/Z2M all installed as Add-ons but not when they are separated dockers.
Really new to this so apologies, but anyone can give me pointers? TIA!
#How to integrate both separated Mosquitto and Zigbee2MQTT containers to HAOS?
weary stump
severe swift
So you are putting docker containers in your OS, and still running HAOS in the VM?
You know that Apps (What you called Add-ons) are just specially customized docker contain ers, right? Not sure what you are trying to do there except make your life more complicated. Just skip the VM and use HA in the Container config.
Anyway you would treat these containers as outside URL.s (because they are) and pass thru the bridge and all kinds of stuff I have no idea about with what you are doing.
I take it you are a fan of Rube Goldberg
weary stump
So when I'm testing, I've had problems with OTBR when used as a docker. The only way I made it to work and make it work consistent is installing OTBR and matter/thread inside HAOS. But I still wanted to try separating like Z2M, Mosquitto, and Zwave JS UI.
For now, I'm trying to figure out, let's say I add a device in Z2M, it will be automatically added to HA as a device. I was wondering if I had to intall some sort app inside HA to make this work or maybe a config