Smart home stuff and home assistant

Semple · 17 Jun 2022 at 14:54

johnw100 said:
Ok I will have a go before I move onto trying a VM solution. My HA just got wiped after following someone’s idea on Reddit, so need to start fresh. Thanks.

I suspect HACS (community store) isn't available via the container. So you might need to fresh deploy as a VM.

johnw100 · 19 Jun 2022 at 11:47

Bluecube said:
Urgh. That sounds nasty. I think your issue could be down to using a container which has added another level of complication. I personally run Home Assistant as a VM which has proven to be much easier to handle. Is it possible to use VMs on your NAS?

I understand your frustration btw. I installed and uninstalled Home Assistant three times over a period of two years before I finally found time to sit down and persevere with it. Once you’ve got your Zigbee adapter working and devices in Home Assistant you’ll have a bit more fun.

ok so I've tried the VM route, and I'm so close its painful that I've spent a while and it is running in a VM (Home assistant) but I can't connect to it via the the

homeassistant.local:8123

I've tried all sorts with the virtual network settings, just can't figure out .

Any ideas?
Thanks

Bluecube · 19 Jun 2022 at 13:46

This is a networking issue and I’m no expert however it looks to me as if the VM isn’t being assigned an IP address from your router. Where is says IPv4 addresses for enp0s3: should have an IP address after it. I’m also not familiar with QNAP and don’t know how it works with VMs but I wonder why the VM is connected to a virtual switch. That shouldn’t be necessary and ideally you want the VM to use the physical adapter.

johnw100 · 19 Jun 2022 at 15:29

Bluecube said:
This is a networking issue and I’m no expert however it looks to me as if the VM isn’t being assigned an IP address from your router. Where is says IPv4 addresses for enp0s3: should have an IP address after it. I’m also not familiar with QNAP and don’t know how it works with VMs but I wonder why the VM is connected to a virtual switch. That shouldn’t be necessary and ideally you want the VM to use the physical adapter.

ah thanks, was about to give up. I found this command that produced an IP address for enp0s3.
network update enp0s3 --ipv4-method auto
it seems to be working

Bluecube · 19 Jun 2022 at 16:27

That’s good news. Hopefully things will be easier to set up and handle from now on.

johnw100 · 19 Jun 2022 at 20:18

Yes now I'm getting somewhere, have it all up and running on a VM at last, installed HACS so I can get more of my devices on there. Even my Zigbee usb dongle that I couldn't get to work before, just worked almost automatically and found devices.

thanks for the help.