How do I view the USB devices with HASS.io?

pgregg88 · July 29, 2017, 7:17pm

Found how to find the USB serial ports.

It’s part of the Hass.io CLI.

SSH to [email protected]
You’ll have this prompt: addon_core_ssh:/config#
type: hassio help
you’ll see:

---- Hass.IO Cli ----

HomeAssistant:
$ hassio homeassistant logs
$ hassio homeassistant restart
$ hassio homeassistant update

Host:
$ hassio host hardware
$ hassio host reboot
$ hassio host shutdown
$ hassio host update
Type: hassio host hardware
It will spit out a report that includes your USB serial paths. See the example output below.

{
“result”: “ok”,
“data”: {
“serial”: [
“/dev/ttyACM0”,
“/dev/ttyACM1”
],
“input”: [],
“disk”: [],
“audio”: {
“0”: {
“name”: “bcm2835 - bcm2835 ALSA”,
“type”: “ALSA”,
“devices”: {
“0”: “digital audio playback”,
“1”: “digital audio playback”
}
}
}
}
}

Hope that helps.

stetho · July 29, 2017, 7:43pm

I have the same problem - my Hassio home page says

The following components and platforms could not be set up:
zwave
Please check your config

If I type hassio help I don’t have a “hardware” command

---- Hass.IO Cli ----
HomeAssistant:
$ hassio homeassistant logs
$ hassio homeassistant restart
$ hassio homeassistant update

Host:
$ hassio host restart
$ hassio host shutdown
$ hassio host update

I am SSHing to [email protected] but I don’t get the addon_core_ssh: prompt - I’m just in the container that HAss in running in.

Is there something else you did to get that point?

Incidentally - hassio homeassistant logs makes no mention of a ZWave error.

smikje · July 30, 2017, 4:58am

You can also try with the below command to find the USB device

dmesg | grep tty

Example output:
410a59064fdb:~# dmesg | grep tty
[ 5.003385] usb 1-1.2: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0

scottocs · July 31, 2017, 12:47pm

I’m in the same boat. I don’t have the ‘hassio host’ commands.

andyp85 · July 31, 2017, 1:57pm

I get all the options apart from hassio host hardware. I wonder why that is?

I only get addon_core_ssh:~# and not the config part.

scottocs · July 31, 2017, 2:10pm

I don’t even get addon_core_ssh:~#.
I get f53c6c2b****:~#, where the asterisks are four different characters, but hidden incase it reveals anything. It appears to be a MAC Address.

Bram_Kragten · July 31, 2017, 2:15pm

You should update the ssh add-on, it is a recent addition.

scottocs · July 31, 2017, 2:46pm

Oh, that fixes everything. Thanks

perwramdemark · August 27, 2017, 2:15pm

Hi,
Everything works fine for me with the below command. However I have a Z-wave and a RFXtrx controller and after a restart they could change “ttyUSB0” <-> “ttyUSB”" with each other.

Is there someway to create a persistent link on hassio for the USB?

core-ssh:~# hassio host hardware
{
  "serial": [
    "/dev/ttyUSB0",
    "/dev/ttyUSB1"
  ],

Mariusthvdb · November 22, 2017, 10:38am

HI ,

strangest thing, I can see the usb drive in the dmesg command, but when i hassio host hardware, no Usb is displayed?
do i need to activate it first somehow? id like the logs and db to be written to the usb, or decide to write them to my NAs. Since that is shutdown in the night, i thought an attached usb would be a good starter. Now how to find it and command Hassio to use it. the Recorder page won’t give much info on that.

please have a look:

core-ssh:~# dmesg | grep usb
[    0.150537] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    0.150625] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    0.150724] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    0.638273] usbcore: registered new interface driver smsc95xx
[    1.039446] dwc_otg 3f980000.usb: DWC OTG Controller
[    1.039480] dwc_otg 3f980000.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[    1.039514] dwc_otg 3f980000.usb: irq 62, io mem 0x00000000
[    1.039784] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[    1.039798] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[    1.039810] usb usb1: Product: DWC OTG Controller
[    1.039822] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 4.4.50 dwc_otg_hcd
[    1.039834] usb usb1: SerialNumber: 3f980000.usb
[    1.041415] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[    1.164675] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[    1.164679] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[    1.414342] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using dwc_otg
[    1.614682] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=9514
[    1.614703] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[    1.894382] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using dwc_otg
[    1.994579] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=ec00
[    1.994593] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[    2.056896] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: register 'smsc95xx' at usb-3f980000.usb-1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, b8:27:eb:19:41:e3
[    3.074337] usb 1-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 4 using dwc_otg
[    3.175090] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5581
[    3.175104] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    3.175110] usb 1-1.4: Product: Ultra
[    3.175116] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: SanDisk
[    3.175122] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: 4C530001221006122243
[    3.175752] usb-storage 1-1.4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[    3.176414] scsi host0: usb-storage 1-1.4:1.0
[    3.735774] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac
core-ssh:~# hassio host hardware
{
  "serial": [],
  "input": [],
  "disk": [
    "/dev/sda",
    "/dev/sda1"
  ],
  "gpio": [
    "gpiochip100",
    "gpiochip0"
  ],
  "audio": {
    "0": {
      "name": "bcm2835 - bcm2835 ALSA",
      "type": "ALSA",
      "devices": {
        "0": "digital audio playback",
        "1": "digital audio playback"
      }
    }
  }
}

harry1 · December 10, 2017, 4:46pm

Did you ever figure this out

Mariusthvdb · December 11, 2017, 6:28am

no not yet,
havent found any info on this, and no reaction whatsoever in the forum…
i did read about several adventures but they weren’t on Hassio, so id rather wait for dedicated hassio setup instructions from the dev’s.

cheers,
Marius

augre · December 28, 2017, 10:53am

Hi,
I have a similar problem, I attached a harddrive:

core-ssh:/share/pidrive# hassio host hardware
{
  "serial": [
    "/dev/ttyAMA0"
  ],
  "input": [],
  "disk": [
    "/dev/sda1",
    "/dev/sda"
  ],
  "gpio": [
    "gpiochip0",
    "gpiochip100"
  ],
  "audio": {
    "0": {
      "name": "bcm2835 - bcm2835 ALSA",
      "type": "ALSA",
      "devices": {
        "0": "digital audio playback",
        "1": "digital audio playback"
      }
    }
  }
}

But then I can’t mount it:

# mount /dev/sda1 /share/pidrive/
mount: permission denied (are you root?)

bboti86 · December 28, 2017, 8:00pm

Hi!
This thread actually has two problems.
First is not finding your USB Z-Wave controller, but that I believe is fixed with the new version of the SSH add-on.

The second one is not being able to mount your USB disk devices. I’ve been trying to work around this one for a while with a lot of help from @frenck. (thanks again!)
Apparently no add-on is allowed to mount your disk devices unless explicitly stating that in the config.json file of the add-on. What I am working on now is to nail together an add-on that serves my needs (DLNA and torrent client using a USB HDD) but in the meantime I realized that if you want to mount your disks for something there is a way. I have to admit it is not easy and also not user friendly:

download Frenck’s terminal add-on’s code from github to your computer: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-terminal
modify the config.json file of the add-on and add access to your /dev/sda1 device
you need to add these lines:
“devices”: ["/dev/sda1:/dev/sda1:rwm"],
“privileged”:[“SYS_ADMIN”]
make sure that the JSON file is still valid, don’t just add this to the end of the file
upload your hacked terminal into the Raspberry PI’s /root/addons folder
in Home Assistant go to hass.io’s add-on market and refresh
install your new terminal as a local add-on (try to make sure that you’ve stopped the original one prior to starting your version)
log into your terminal and mount your drive as you wish to do that

If the local add-on is not showing up you can go into hass.io’s supervisor logs in the advanced settings and see what’s wrong there.

The reason why this works is somewhat explained between the lines of this page: https://home-assistant.io/developers/hassio/addon_config/

Once again this is a hack, I would not recommend it to anyone unless you know what you are doing, also most cases you don’t need to access a USB drive in hass.io at all, you should be able to access your backups for example through SSH and Samba.

Let me know if you have questions!
Regards!
B

Mariusthvdb · December 29, 2017, 12:57am

HI, cool you’re doing this. I think it would be of utmost value if we could easily use the usb drives in the Pi3 Hassio install. As a matter of fact, ive asked @frenck over twitter if his latest Backup add-on will support this.

Ive changed from a simple hassio setup to one using the maria Db because i feared the Db getting out of hand, and hoping i could write that to a usb drive, as not to risk corrupting my main setup in the root. Creating backups on usb would be a big second reason for USB support.
I hope this will be realized sooner than later, because even as I write this, i can see the disk usage of my 32 gb card reach over 50%… And i’ve only been using HAssio for 2 months now :-((

So, no hack, but built-in functionality is needed !
Cheers and hope you can forge this with Frenck, he’s been known to write wonders

frenck · December 29, 2017, 7:56am

Initially, probably: no.

I’ve talked with @bboti86 on Discord quite a lot about this problem. The method described by @bboti86 works but is not a sustainable solution. For example, everybody would run all kind of forks add-on to mount their specific drives in specific places.

I’m currently looking into several “possible” solutions.

Mariusthvdb · December 31, 2017, 9:30am

please do, would be a number 1 add-on!

Mariusthvdb · January 2, 2018, 10:03pm

Hi @frenck
Any news on the Duplicati solution yet?
Happy to help out testing if you need…
Cheers,
Marius

kobip · April 18, 2018, 5:01pm

Hi,

after typing
hassio host hardware , I get :

why’s that ??

jetheurer · April 27, 2018, 6:24pm

I see the same as @kobip