Home Assistant addon : FileBrowser

alexbelgium · December 30, 2023, 10:05pm

Thanks for the feedback. Well there is really no reason that it would correlate with the files location… In the things that changed, I see 1) the fact that the modified code is embedded in the script (and therefore not modified using the script we had made) ; 2) that I have updated the code to mount smb (but perhaps you are using local mounts?) and 3) that HA itself was updated and it could have modified behaviors also…

If we want to be systematic :
3) The best way to check for 3 would be to revert to an addon prior to 21-11-2023
2) That’s harder, but it would require to either mount using localdisk (if the disk is connected to the device) or smb (using for example SAMBA NAS addon)

We can mimick what happened… Actually it’s quite funny but I now see that there was several invalid elements in the script that I actually corrected when implementing it in the final code. If you want to mimick exactly what occured, you can try this script :

#!/bin/bash

echo "Remove previous file"
rm /etc/cont-init.d/99-run.sh
rm /etc/cont-init.d/20-folders.sh

echo "Download july file"
curl -f -L -s -S "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexbelgium/hassio-addons-test/master/filebrowser/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/99-run.sh" -o /etc/cont-init.d/99-run.sh
dos2unix /etc/cont-init.d/99-run.sh || true
chmod +x /etc/cont-init.d/99-run.sh

curl -f -L -s -S "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexbelgium/hassio-addons-test/master/filebrowser/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/20-folders.sh" -o /etc/cont-init.d/20-folders.sh
dos2unix /etc/cont-init.d/20-folders.sh
chmod +x /etc/cont-init.d/20-folders.sh

echo "Apply July fix"
sed -i "s|/./filebrowser \$CERTFILE|/./filebrowser -d .\filebrowser.db --disable-preview-resize --disable-type-detection-by-header --cache-dir=\".\cache\" \$CERTFILE|g" /etc/cont-init.d/99-run.sh
sed -i "s|--port --|--port 8080 --|g" /etc/cont-init.d/99-run.sh

alexbelgium · December 30, 2023, 10:42pm

EDIT : I’ve pushed a new version based on Hurlenko’s container (another change since July). It should be the closest to my point 1) of mimicking what the code was in July, not taking into account the other updates to HA (point 1) and mounting codes (point 2)

nprez83 · December 31, 2023, 2:50am

Nailed it! Just downloaded the new version and it works great, super fast loading! For my own learning, does the new version just implement the above script, or did it include additional changes? Thanks again!

alexbelgium · December 31, 2023, 6:58am

Great! Thanks for the fast feedback. This version reverts the upstream image to Hurlenko’s instead of the official Filebrowser one, implements by default the thumbnails disabling (can be enabled from the options) and corrects the cache folder (useful only if thumbnails are enabled).

donverse · January 10, 2024, 9:00am

Is there a way that I can create a link to directly access a file using filebrowser?
My use case: I am creating a weekly watchman report and want to have a persistent notification so that I don’t forget checking it. This could include a direct link to the file to open in FileBrowser - but it does not work by adding path & file to the link. Checking the FileBrowser features it seems like it should work. Any comments?

Darkyputz · January 28, 2024, 10:06pm

Good day everyone.

I am a happy user of this addon and it works just great besides on small issues that i cant figure out.
Everytime i try to open a file or try to download it i get 401: unauthorized
And i think it worked at some point down the line but i did not use it that often.
Does that make any sense?
Its a supervised bare metal hass with all updates and the filebrowser is at version 401: Unauthorized
I am using duckdns with ssl and ngnix

Pleae let me know if any info is missing that would help for troubleshooting

alexbelgium · February 2, 2024, 2:29am

I think you need to use the “share” feature in a file context menu.however it does not work with ingress as HA uses its own securit system. As such, you need to use an external port, expose it in your router, then share file while accessing the add-on directly with poer

alexbelgium · February 2, 2024, 2:31am

Hi perhaps try accessing it from home to see if the issue would not be with the nginx added layee that could strip authentification headers ?

Darkyputz · February 3, 2024, 9:52pm

Hello and thx for your reply…unfortunate found it just now…
Will take a look what you are saying and trying to make some sense out of it…will comeback if i need help

alexbelgium · February 4, 2024, 10:51am

Lol my autocorrect stripped my answer from any meaning. What i meant is that it might be due to your added nginx layer. You might try to download the files in 3 ways : at home from within HA (using ingress) ; at home using ip:port (so direct access) ; and using your external domain. That way you can see at which level is. Watchout that when using ingress links (that contain in the url /api/hassio_ingress) you MUST be logged into homeassistant from that same browser to have the necessary authentification headers

wesleygas · February 7, 2024, 12:17pm

First of all, thanks for the work with the add-ons! It’s been an integral part of my home.

If I may ask, is there a way to get around the file permission check? After I uploaded my library to Immich, the chown command started to take upwards of 30 minutes to finish.

alexbelgium · February 7, 2024, 9:41pm

Hi, it’s to make sure all permissions are correct. I could add a flag to disable it at the risk if the user?

wesleygas · February 8, 2024, 1:59am

I would appreciate it a lot!

It might be the best compromise possible, as the only way I know to ensure all permissions are correct is by checking them all. However, for a 50k+ file library it starts adding up and I myself would happily take the risk.

wongil · February 11, 2024, 6:08am

"I am using filebrowser very well. It is excellent.

For multi-user purposes, I added other user accounts. However, I cannot log in as a different user. There is no logout menu.

What could have gone wrong?"

alexbelgium · February 11, 2024, 10:06pm

Hi, i think you need to disable the option to disable passwords in the add-on options. This will however reset your database… But allow you to login. Hopefully… I would suggest to check the official site documentation also this could help : GitHub - filebrowser/filebrowser: 📂 Web File Browser

wongil · February 12, 2024, 1:07pm

thank you

NoAuth: false

I solved it by changing the addon options.
Login, logout.

Login ID and password are reset to admin.
However, I am very satisfied.

Thank you very much.

KiWyFox · April 21, 2024, 10:36am

hi
after installation of this addon, i set noauth to false.
but the addons didnt start.
any ideas what im doing wrong?
here is the log:

/etc/cont-init.d/00-global_var.sh: executing
NoAuth=‘false’
certfile=‘fullchain.pem’
disable_thumbnails=‘true’
keyfile=‘privkey.pem’
ssl=‘false’
/etc/cont-init.d/00-local_mounts.sh: executing
/etc/cont-init.d/00-smb_mounts.sh: executing
/etc/cont-init.d/01-config_yaml.sh: executing
Setting permissions for the config.yaml directory

Load environment variables from /config/config.yaml if existing
If accessing the file with filebrowser it should be mapped to /addon_configs/db21ed7f-filebrowser/config.yaml

Wiki here on how to use : Add‐ons feature : add env variables · alexbelgium/hassio-addons Wiki · GitHub
… no env variables found, exiting
/etc/cont-init.d/01-custom_script.sh: executing
Execute /addon_configs/db21ed7f-filebrowser/filebrowser.sh if existing
Wiki here : Home · alexbelgium/hassio-addons Wiki · GitHub
/etc/cont-init.d/20-folders.sh: executing
find: /homeassistant/addons_config: No such file or directory
Error : /etc/cont-init.d/20-folders.sh exiting 1
/etc/cont-init.d/99-run.sh: executing
[10:28:24] WARNING: Auth method change, database reset
[10:28:24] INFO: Default username/password : admin/admin
[10:28:24] INFO: Starting…
2024/04/21 10:28:25 No config file used
2024/04/21 10:28:25 Listening on [::]:8080
[10:28:26] INFO: Started !

alexbelgium · April 21, 2024, 2:28pm

Hi, congrats you have found an error in my programmation logic it looks for an addons_config folder in /config which was my legacy folder for addons, and still used for around half of them. I’ll correct the code but if you want to start the current version you can create the folder manually. HA has a particular way of managing the /config : if /homeassistant folder you must create the folder /homeassistant/addons_config if only /config exists (and contain your files sur as configuration.yaml you should create the folder there hope it’s not too confusing

KiWyFox · April 21, 2024, 6:08pm

Hi,
i saw that you allready updated the code
Thanks you very much for fast reply and updating the code so quickly.

now it works perfect

pythonistam · October 18, 2024, 12:50pm

Good day, I have a question. If I need to give access to a certain file, that is, to share it. Well, when I pass the link to another person, he asks for a login password. How can I make it so that it does not ask for a password? Thanks in advance

Home Assistant addon : FileBrowser

Load environment variables from /config/config.yaml if existing If accessing the file with filebrowser it should be mapped to /addon_configs/db21ed7f-filebrowser/config.yaml

Load environment variables from /config/config.yaml if existing
If accessing the file with filebrowser it should be mapped to /addon_configs/db21ed7f-filebrowser/config.yaml