How add community addons to homeassistant

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Try this blog post Installation Methods & Community Guides Wiki

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Hi, thanks to @juampe I managed how to manually integrate Node-Red with Home Assistant, manually and without supervised.

If I understand well, supervised works adding some “application” in docker container, installing also the custom components for HomeAssistant and the communication component for the “containerized” application. So application can communicate with HomeAssistant and vice versa.

For example, to integrate “node-red” and HomeAssistant" core, you need:

  • Dockerized node-red with node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket palette (plug-in) installed
  • Dockerized (or not) Home-Assistant whit hass-node-red custom component installed (you can fined here: hass-node-red.

In order to do this you need to know how docker, docker-compose works:

This is an extract of my docker-compose:

  # node-red con with blynk integration and home assistant
  node-red:
    build: domus-node-red
    container_name: domus-node-red
    image: bsaul/node-red:latest

    environment:
      #this is for my proxy
      VIRTUAL_HOST: "node-red.mydomain.it"
      VIRTUAL_PORT: "1880"
      VIRTUAL_PROTO: "http"
      CERT_NAME: "default"     
    volumes:
      - "reddomus:/data"
    networks:
      - "domus-net"
      - "domus-assistant"

  # HASSOS / Home Assistant only core
  assistant:
    container_name: domus-assistant
    image: homeassistant/home-assistant:stable
    volumes:
      - "./domus-assistant/config:/config"
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      TZ : "Europe/Rome"
    networks:
      - "external-net"
      - "domus-assistant"

....
networks:

  domus-assistant:
    name: "domus-assistant"
    internal: true

  external-net:
    name: "external-net"
    driver: macvlan
    driver_opts:
      parent: bond0
    ipam:
      config:
        - subnet: 192.168.1.0/24
          gateway: 192.168.1.1
          ip_range: 192.168.1.113/32

Please note that i don’t like “host” network and I used docker macvlan network to expose HomeAssistant in my network. Also I use named volumes.

So in order to have a node-red link in HomeAssistant we need to add this lines in configuration.yaml:

panel_iframe:

  nodered:
    title: "Node-Red"
    icon: "mdi:nodejs"
    url: "http://domus-node-red:1880"
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Well that will work, but you do not need to dockerise anything.

Just install node-red and the connector thingy.

EDIT When I say “connector thingy” I mean node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket :slight_smile:

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You know all this talk about docker is fine, but HA neglects to say that running docker on BTRFS file systems with snapshots is a bad idea, The two don’t work well together. Now seeing that Fedora is BTRFS by default and Debian has added BTRFS as a filesystem in their installer a little better information for new users might be forth coming from the HA

Just sayin.

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Document it then.

Just sayin’