Hass.IO beginner questions

Hello,

A few hours ago I installed the newest beta-image of hass.io, which is running on a raspberry pi 4 4GB.

I understood that home assistant is running in a docker container on this image. I would like to run more docker containers on this image like e. g. Awtrix.

I already installed portainer using hass.io portainer, but for any reason it does not start correctly.

Could someone tell me how to start other docker containers?

And, from time to time, the raspbi 4 is getting firmware updates (heat problems). Does hassOS, which is the base OS of hass.io, update the firmware itself?

Fix portainer and you can start other docker containers. Seems odd that you wouldn’t want to know why portainer isn’t working.

Portainer was not able to start because of the activated protection mode.
Now, it is starting…

If you are running the HassOS image then unless the “other containers” are being installed by hassio thru an add-on then you won’t be able to run anything else on that machine.

Okay, using the hass.io-Image for Rapsberry Pi (4) home assistant is running as a hidden docker-container.

I am wondering, portainer is not showing any volumes. So, after restarting the system, I thought all containers are lossing data because of the missing volumes, which are functioning as data storage. But, none of the HA-data is lost after restarting. How does this work ?

And, I tried to start a watchtower docker container using portainer, but it is answering with this error message "standard_init_linux.go:211: exec user process caused “exec format error”. Why is it possible for hass.io-docker containers like InfluxDB to start, while starting docker containers using portainer is not possible ?

Because it uses a bind mount, not a volume.

Sounds like incorrect architecture to me. The docker image has to be made to work with ARM processor.

Can not find any information about its architecture…

Used command docker run -d
–name watchtower
-v /home//.docker/config.json:/config.json
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
v2tec/watchtower container_to_watch --debug

is this a typo in your command or just what you transferred to the forums?

what /home/ are your files in? Is it in a hidden directory called .docker?

does the config.json exist?