How to connect skyconnect with Qnap nas

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Hi, I’ve got home assistant OS running on a VM on my QNAP NAS, all works fine and I’ve just got a skyconnect through the post but when I plug it in it doesn’t show up in home assistant or on my QNAP as a device, any ideas how I get this installed as it’s not plug and play for me.

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Is skyconnect usb 3? Annoyingly I can see that in the QNAP virtualization station home assistant OS does not support usb 3 and will only pass through usb 2. Has anybody else had issues connecting skyconnect on a Nas through usb3 ports?

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All working now, but if anybody comes across this issue and isn’t use to using virtualization station for qnap I had to stop the VM and then click the usb icon below the VM to allow the use of the skyconnect, then when I restarted the VM it showed up in HA and I was able to connect Aqara buttons without the need of the Area hub.

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Does the Skyconnect still connect to the VM after rebooting the QNAP, or do you have to manually reconnect it every time??

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Hi, yes it has connected each time I’ve restarted it and appears to be working just fine. Only tried with ZigBee so far but hoping to get Thread device soon.

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Hi
I am using Home Assistant on my QNAP as a container. So it uses QNAP’s kernel, modules and unfortunately it is very limited. Like it is missing udev rules to create serial port device, like /dev/ttyUSB0. Or maybe it’s missing required kernel modules too.
Because of this, I can’t share this device to my container.

Only option would be to use virtual machine as most of you are already using. It has own kernel, own “drivers” (kernel modules) and rules.
But containers would be lighter (less memory needed, less overhead, faster reboots).

I had same issue with my DVB TV stick too. QNAP didn’t have kernel modules for it, so I had to create Linux virtual machine. So now I can share TV broadcast into home network and record shows.

But for Home Assistant and SkyConnect, first I’ll try to create own udev rules, if it would work (no success yet).
On a short I may need to change into virtual machines. On long run I would discard QNAP OS and install Proxmox VE on same hardware.

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Oh, right after I wrote my post, I got it working on my QNAP TS453D.
Kernel has driver cp210x which does not seem to be automatically run when USB device is plugged.

So, I had to run command:

modprobe cp210x

and then I got /dev/ttyUSB0 -device which I can use on my Home Assistant container.
(not sure if my udev rule tests had anything to do)

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