Home Assistant Core Plugin

[TrueAJS]

Home Assistant Core Plugin is not showing up in my community collection. Running TrueNAS-13.0-U3.1

Any solutions?

 

[danb35]

It's been removed, and you shouldn't use plugins:

iXsystems, when are you going to stop pretending that CORE has (usable) plugins?

Plugins are broken. We all know it, and you have no intention of fixing them. Most notably, @Kris Moore has said not to use them, and that they're "more or less deprecated": using plugins on CORE is a path to sadness. The plugin system is more or less deprecated and as you can tell, somewhat...

www.truenas.com

 

[tprelog]

I can point you to several guides that can help you install Home Assistant in regular jail but be warned running Home Assistant by any means on FreeBSD is not supported. While a basic installation may still run without issue, you can expect that not everything will work as expected. The Bluetooth integration is a good example of something that will not work. In any case, maintaining a Home Assistant installation on FreeBSD requires some effort.

A supported installation method in the Home Assistant context means:

A way of installing and running Home Assistant in a way that is supported by the Home Assistant developers. Supported means the installation method is tested and documented in the official documentation. Running Home Assistant using such a supported method, leads to the optimal user experience.

The Home Assistant team does not prevent us from running Home Assistant using an unofficial method. However, they cannot will not help with issues that we encounter.

 

[victort]

Can you point me to the best guide for this? I've found many, most of which don't work.

 

[tprelog]

Hi @victort - I'm unsure if you'll find any up-to-date guides for this.

You may find outdated guides hiding in the wiki in the old plugin repo and the Home Assistant forum.

This guide uses the rc script from the plugin to install Home Assistant.

autostart and rc service

Home Assistant Core - TrueNAS CORE Community Plugin - tprelog/iocage-homeassistant

github.com

And this was the complete manual installation guide.

Manual Guide

Home Assistant Core - TrueNAS CORE Community Plugin - tprelog/iocage-homeassistant

github.com

Finally, there is this post in the Home Assistant forum.

Installation of Home Assistant on your FreeNAS

FreeNAS is a free and open-source network-attached storage (NAS) software based on FreeBSD and the OpenZFS file system. It is licensed under the terms of the BSD License and runs on commodity x86-64 hardware. This has been tested on FreeNAS 11.3 and should also work on FreeBSD 11.x as well...

community.home-assistant.io

As I mentioned, these guides are outdated, so you must adjust the FreeBSD release for your jail and the Python version you install accordingly.

Good Luck!

EDIT: I forgot about this one.
It's a scripted install. Updated 10 months ago to use Python 3.10. This may be your best bet.

scripts/home-assistant at master · cliviu74/scripts

Various scripts. Contribute to cliviu74/scripts development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[danb35]

I'd have to think the best way to run HA would be in a VM.

 

[victort]

I'd have to think the best way to run HA would be in a VM.

For more features I would agree. But for me it’s a basic MyQ integration with a couple of users.

I don’t like the MyQ app.

 

[tprelog]

I have to agree with danb35 - If you just want to use Home Assistant rather than spend time maintaining the installation, a VM is a better option, even for the most basic setups.

 

[somethingweird]

I'm running VM - Home Assistant Supervisor. I remember I had a hell of a time to get it OS (ubuntu I believe) to boot via EFI.

Solution EFI Boot