I concur. I would love to be able to have the pictures taken from my cameras stored on my local NAS. An ability to mount an external device from HASS.IO would be awesome.
(yes, I know there are all kinds of workarounds for that but it would still be awesome)
Also, being old-school where it was a given that the operating system and dynamic data (i.e. databases, content, logs) shall not share the same physical device. It would just be following protocol to have more than a single storage device available.
It would be great to have a simple, hack free way to mount external storage or NAS storage to Home Assistant.
We have Plex addon and MotionEye addon in the Supervisor addon store and both of these benefit greatly from being able to access storage devices.
It seems that if we have addons like these, we need a way to access storage to utilise these addons
I have to say I’m finding the whole Home Assistant architecture a little baffling. Setting aside the infinite confusion surrounding all of the various installation methods and renaming, let’s say I’ve finally given up on installing HA on a regular OS instance (say, a Debian VM I have running under Proxmox) and I’ve bitten the bullet and installed “Hass OS” via an official, pre-baked disk image. So now I have a bespoke, curated “operating system” for hosting a home automation application, but it’s less capable out of the box than if I could simply “apt install home-assistant” and then do all of the normal things I’d expect, like “mount another filesystem”?
Admittedly I’m probably not the majority use case; I want to be able to spin up a HA instance on a hypervisor and have it all provisioned automatically with Ansible, configuration data stored on an NFS mount so it can be backed up regularly, and be able to burn the whole thing down automatically without losing data and clicking a million times in a web UI. I get that some of that is outside the norm, but “regular automated backups” and “mount a remote filesystem” are not wild concepts.
I guess ultimately I don’t see the logic in building an entire opinionated operating system around the assumption that everybody wants to run it on an isolated Raspberry Pi booting off a USB stick at the expense of being able to do all of the things that operating systems already do well. Am I looking at this the wrong way?
Lyle,
What you say makes sense to me. I can see by your writing that you have a lot more knowledge in IT than my basic scratch.
I very quickly moved my hassio from a raspberry pi to nuc. So many bad stories about sd cards etc.
Like you as well having a system that has an automated backup to a nas (i run freenas) should be basic.
Also being able to extend my nuc with an external hard drive i thought should be easy - as yet i haven’t been able to do that.
When i first thought about going into home automation i looked at a number of options. I chose hone assistant. I am very happy with my choice as it is a great system and definitely at the moment meets my needs. It is also a great community who by and large provide relevant answers with grace.
I have gone to cabunasa subscription to provide support and hopefully this allows the developers to make the system even better.
I’ll stick around for a while anyway.
It would be great to extend the RPI4 HASSIO with NAS features by using an additional drive on the USB3 Port. the RPI4 has plenty of cpu power an memory form my home usage to be able to run HA + NAS. A NAS addon such as FreeNAS https://www.freenas.org/ or Nextcloud https://hub.docker.com/_/nextcloud/ would be very nice. IT would make me happy to get rid of my old QNAP NAS considering security and energy usage.
I mean the discussion/wish is ongoing for two years now!
I moved my system from a Ubuntu nuc to the finnished nuc image because I was afraid of the news earlier this year that this kind of installation is going to be discontinued
Now I’m suffering by being not able to mount a external drive
What is necessary to reorder this feature in the ranking?! More contributors?!
I would love to mount external drives to my hassio
With motionEye for example youre lost if you’re not able to store anything to a storage nearby
And it’s already part of the community addons so it should be only a small step to achieve a perfect pvr solution <3
There is not really any confusion around installation. Like all open source software, there are numerous unofficial ways of installing, but the official ways are very clearly described on the main install page, with very clear instructions. Probably the clearest open source install instructions I have ever seen.
The recent renaming was initially confusing, but given it’s all one piece of software really, it makes sense to get rid of hass.io and just make it all Home Assistant, with Core being the basic Software without extras.
That’s all outside the this particular threads scope though.
This is an old thread but the issue is still here. I’m just getting started with HA and am trying to repurpose some old business and server hardware. But I ran smack into being unable to use internal drives as a datadisk. I’ve been cruising around forums and YouTube and I think this is the current state of affairs:
The main platform for HA is single board computers - Raspberry Pi, ODROIDs, Intel Nuc, etc.
The enterprise supporting HA development also sells SBC solutions (Home Assistant Blue, Home Assistant Yellow, ?)
SBCs main connection to peripherals is USB. USB 3.0 is almost as fast as SATA III, USB 3.1 is faster. So it is a good option.
Keeping HA with fewer storage connection options reduces user support problems and developer distractions.
HA has the ability to keep data on an external USB drive - which meets most users need for more storage space and fewer writes to the boot drive.
So there really isn’t any business case for offering any external storage interface other than USB.
Consequently I don’t think we’ll see the status quo change. I’m still deciding if that will work for me.
Has anyone figured out a way around this for SATA, PCIe, etc, internal disks, such as additions to configuration files, etc?