Addons with Home Assistant Docker

fun · February 11, 2021, 5:32am

I’ve been trying to find an example of how to run home assistant core on docker with addons. I realize that the addon store is unavailable in a docker install, but I wish to move away from a raspberry pi and I want to run home assistant on my docker host.

I am familiar with running docker containers but I have been unable to figure out how to properly setup a home assistant container with the various addons that I have grown to love.

For example, lets assume I wish to run the mqtt addon with home assistant core

Do I just create a home assistant core container and a mqtt container? i.e. can I use the homeassistant/amd64-homeassistant and the homeassistant/amd64-addon-mosquitto images?
Is there anyway to replicate ingress?
Could anyone be kind enough to point me to a tutorial or write up on how to integrate docker containers with home assistant or point me to a docker-compose file for reference?
Is it possible to restore a snapshot to a docker container install? Or do I need to manually set it up? How would one backup a docker install?

Thank you so much!

m0wlheld · February 11, 2021, 7:19am

You are looking for „Home Assistant Supervised“ as installation method and it is only supported on Debian Buster (whatever „supported“ means).

Burningstone · February 11, 2021, 8:31am

No, you can’t use the HA add-on images, they are specially modified to work with the HA environment. You need to use generic docker images.

You can check my docker-compose file in my github repo here:

github.com

Burningstone91/smart-home-setup/blob/bda7116301f19cfb4e04a0e9a693a850869a8e16/docker-compose-redacted.yml

version: "3"
services:
  appdaemon:
    container_name: appdaemon
    image: acockburn/appdaemon:4.0.5
    depends_on:
      - hass
    ports:
      - "5050:5050"
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - ./appdaemon:/conf

  esphome-dashboard:
    container_name: esphome-dashboard
    image: esphome/esphome:latest
    network_mode: host
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:

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I also explain in my README how I set up these containers and other stuff.

Personally I backup the whole VM as it’s easier, automatic and I have enough space xD there are multiple ways do backup your docker install, with Restic Backup or just backuo the volumes mounted to the containers or…

m0wlheld · February 11, 2021, 8:43am

No, but you can create an MQTT container and link it to the Home Assistant container (using docker-compose)

nginx or Traefik container.

Copy the configuration folder (incl. the hidden .storage) folder to a save location.