Cannot connect to HA Container in Docker on W10

Installation
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Hi there guys,

I decided to try installing HA Container in Docker on my Windows machine, in order to play a bit with it while I get my hands on a rPI, but it doesn’t seem to work, for some reason.

I installed it using docker-compose using the following docker-compose.yaml (from these instructions):

services:
  homeassistant:
    container_name: homeassistant
    image: "ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable"
    volumes:
      - F:/HA:/config
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    restart: unless-stopped
    privileged: true
    network_mode: host

The installation went really fast and seemed to be successful, but when I try to access HA from browser, I am not able to do so.

Trying from the same machine as the one with docker gives me the following error (same error when I use the machine’s IP instead of localhost)

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Do you have any idea what the issue might be and how to fix it?

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Docker on Windows doesn’t support host mode networking - you have to explicitly map ports. This is why that’s not a supported installation method.

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Can you let me know how I could do that?

I tried adding this to the docker-compose.yaml but it didn’t change anything:

ports:
    - 8123:8123
4

That looks broadly right, what does docker ps show?

5

It doesn’t show any ports configured, for some reason

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Did you rebuild the container after you updated the compose file?

7

Yes, of course.

8

I assume the container is running, your screenshot shows it to be up a few seconds but I am not sure if it dies shortly after?
Then did you examine the logs inside the container , e.g. /config/home-assistant.log?

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Yes, the container is running correctly. It didn’t fail/die, and the logs are empty.

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so you mean no logs at all in the container? what did you add to configuration.yaml wrt to logging?
What are the processes in the container that are running?

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I didn’t add anything to the configuration.yaml, I left it default.
I have 3 .log files, home-assistant.log, home-assistant.log.1, home-assistant.log.fault and all 3 are empty.
The processes inside the container are these ones:
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Edit: Contents of configuration.yaml:

# Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc)
default_config:

# Text to speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate

automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml
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odd… I have the same so I guess the port mapping is not working
I just installed docker on windows for the 1st time ever(!) and ran this one:
docker run -d --name="homeassistant" -p 8123:8123 ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:2022.3
This runs fine for me…

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Running that command works fine for me as well, so I guess it has something to do with the local files then? Because this one doesn’t copy the files on the local drive

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So this is a screw up from my side, haha.
When @Tinkerer was saying host mode is not supported and to explicitly map ports, I just added the port mapping to docker-compose.yaml, without removing the network_mode: host line.

I removed it right now, in order to make it look as closer to your command as possible, and it works.

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Great… although docker/windows…not sure ( I am not that much of a windows fan :slight_smile: )