Installing HA on Docker in Windows desktop

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Hi,

Im bussy for several houres now. Im feeling kinda dumb.

i try to use the install command in cmd.exe (runned as admin)

docker run -d
–name homeassistant
–privileged
–restart=unless-stopped
-e TZ=Europe/Amsterdam
-v /c:\Users\XXXX\XXXX - XXX - XXX\Bureaublad\ha\haconfig:/config
–network=host

When i copy paste this in cmd.exe i just got errors :confused:

docker: invalid reference format.
‘–name’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
‘–privileged’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,

etc etc

What do i do wrong? I try to run it in docker and accces it via the browser. If i manually add HA to Docker i cant acces as well. I cant find proper documentation on this case (or at least didnt found it, googled for houres now)

Thanks

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ha on docker on Windows will present more issues, at some point you would actually need to run this on net=host which is not available on Windows

HomeAssistant running on Docker Desktop for Windows but not accessible from browser - Installation - Home Assistant Community (home-assistant.io)

3

Thanks for reply. Is there any other possibility to run it on localmachine? (windows)

I first had oracle VM downloaded but wasnt compatible with wifi? Is there any other trick to start it on my laptop with wifi?

4

It will work with docker but without net=host it has limitations so not advised
This is what HA proposes
Windows - Home Assistant (home-assistant.io)

5

I dont get it. What i need to put where than? Where i can put that code? I cant find anything.

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I have no clue where i can put that code in docker :confused:

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Not sure what you mean too :slight_smile:
You docker run as in your first post above ends with: --network=host
But that does not work on windows.
If you follow the link I sent then you will see how to get it to work with the proper “docker run - d …etc.”

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That is my whole point where do i put that docker run - d etc :confused:
When i put it in cmd.exe i just get errors

8

ah,so you installed docker on your laptop I guess

9

yes i installed it on my laptop desktop version

10

gimme a few mins, redoing it … I thought I had my old laptop ready but …not

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It was a while ago so these are my steps
install docker desktop
restart
start docker desktop…error as requires latest WSL, follow the link and install WSL
start docker desktop (takes a while depending on laptop…4min with me)
create folder c:/homeassistant
open command line
enter

docker run -d -p 8123:8123 --privileged --volume "C:\homeassistant:/config" --name homeassistant -e "TZ=Europe/Paris" ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable

At the end it will present a container id which means it started
Then it can take up to 15mins before it is ready
In c:/homeassistant you will find the HA specific folders/file
use local-ip:8123 to enter

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Wow thanks this works o.O dont knwo how but very thanks!

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one correction…to logon:
localhost:8123
EDIT: and what you will find is that it will not autodetect devices…because it is ‘caught’ behind port 8123
If you please to build this out, then repeating to use a different install , migration might be(come) a pain

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Im going to put it on my nas synology device when i understand what i can do with it and build some nice things with it :smiley:

15

Spent a lot of time to set up HA on windows.
That answer worked!
Thanks a lot!

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Updated docker and synced HA-Core today end get the following errors. All was working fine.

Wo can help to get this fixed.

Generating translations for date
Generating translations for azure_storage
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "/workspaces/HA-Core/script/translations/__main__.py", line 30, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
             ~~~~^^
  File "/workspaces/HA-Core/script/translations/__main__.py", line 25, in main
    return module.run()
           ~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/workspaces/HA-Core/script/translations/develop.py", line 105, in run
    run_single(translations, flattened_translations, integration)
    ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/workspaces/HA-Core/script/translations/develop.py", line 94, in run_single
    download.write_integration_translations()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/workspaces/HA-Core/script/translations/download.py", line 134, in write_integration_translations
    save_language_translations(lang, translations)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/workspaces/HA-Core/script/translations/download.py", line 114, in save_language_translations
    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/pathlib/_local.py", line 722, in mkdir
    os.mkdir(self, mode)
    ~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'homeassistant/components/azure_storage/translations'

 *  The terminal process "/usr/bin/zsh '-c', '/home/vscode/.local/ha-venv/bin/python -m script.translations develop --all'" terminated with exit code: 1. 
 *  Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.