Home Assistant installation

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Home assistant is the one of the best open source home automation solution in the market. It supports wide range of smart home devices. With its Lovelace interface you can easily setup basic automation in seconds. Here in this article you can find the installation methods for Linux & Synology;

LINUX

docker run -d --name="home-assistant" -v /PATH_TO_YOUR_CONFIG:/config -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro --net=host homeassistant/home-assistant:stable

Updating:

docker pull homeassistant/home-assistant:stable  # if this returns "Image is up to date" then you can stop here
docker stop home-assistant  # stop the running container
docker rm home-assistant  # remove it from Docker's list of containers
docker run -d --name="home-assistant" -v /PATH_TO_YOUR_CONFIG:/config -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro --net=host homeassistant/home-assistant:stable  # finally, start a new one

SYNOLOGY NAS

The steps would be:

  • Install “Docker” package on your Synology NAS
  • Launch Docker-app and move to “Registry”-section
  • Find “homeassistant/home-assistant” within the registry and click on “Download”. Choose the “stable” tag.
  • Wait for some time until your NAS has pulled the image
  • Move to the “Image”-section of the Docker-app
  • Click on “Launch”
  • Choose a container-name you want (e.g., “homeassistant”)
  • Click on “Advanced Settings”
  • Set “Enable auto-restart” if you like
  • Within “Volume” click on “Add Folder” and choose either an existing folder or add a new folder. The “mount path” has to be “/config”, so that Home Assistant will use it for the configs and logs. It is therefore recommended that the folder you choose should be named “config” or “homeassistant/config” to avoid confusion when referencing it within service calls.
  • Within “Network” select “Use same network as Docker Host”
  • To ensure that Home Assistant displays the correct timezone go to the “Environment” tab and click the plus sign then add variable = TZ & value= Asia/Dubai choosing your correct timezone
  • Confirm the “Advanced Settings”
  • Click on “Next” and then “Apply”
  • Your Home Assistant within Docker should now run and will serve the web interface from port 8123 on your Docker host (this will be your Synology NAS IP address – for example http://your-synology-ip:8123)

Updating;

  • Go to the Docker-app and move to “Registry”-section
  • Find “homeassistant/home-assistant” within registry and click on “Download”. Choose the “stable” tag.
  • Wait until the system-message/-notification comes up, that the download is finished (there is no progress bar)
  • Move to “Container”-section
  • Stop your container if it’s running
  • Right-click on it and select “Action”->“Clear”. You won’t lose any data, as all files are stored in your configuration-directory
  • Start the container again – it will then boot up with the new Home Assistant image

For more information, visit www.home-assistant.io

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