Internal wiki/manual?

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I would like to ask the community for advice.
I try searched but I didn’t find anything much.

I would divide my request into two parts

  1. as my HomeAssistance grows, my wife complains that she no longer remembers what kind of button its function is. if he clicks twice or holds, etc. Subsequently, he doesn’t really understand any internal functioning of Home Assistance, etc. I also admit that I already have problems. it’s too much and don’t remember every automation

I would need to prepare something like a manual for her so that she could look there at any time and find out what she was doing.

But I can’t find an ideal way.

  1. we all know how important documentation is. I’m currently writing it sideways in onenote, but in the context of the first point, it occurred to me to combine it into one.

In conclusion, I would really like some integrated Wikipedia in HA. it would solve both my solutions, the documentation would be in one place and the manual could be written in it as well. Isn’t there such a thing?

Thanks you, you for your time.

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awesome. thank you very much

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I followed the manual, first installed mariadb and then ran the bookstack but did not start.

it always gets stuck on “Starting NGinx …” does anyone have experience with this?

[s6-init] making user provided files available at /var/run/s6/etc...exited 0.
[s6-init] ensuring user provided files have correct perms...exited 0.
[fix-attrs.d] applying ownership & permissions fixes...
[fix-attrs.d] bookstack: applying... 
[fix-attrs.d] bookstack: exited 0.
[fix-attrs.d] done.
[cont-init.d] executing container initialization scripts...
[cont-init.d] 00-banner.sh: executing... 
-----------------------------------------------------------
 Add-on: Bookstack
 Simple & Free Wiki Software
-----------------------------------------------------------
 Add-on version: 0.13.7
 You are running the latest version of this add-on.
 System: Home Assistant OS 7.3  (aarch64 / raspberrypi4-64)
 Home Assistant Core: 2022.2.3
 Home Assistant Supervisor: 2022.01.1
-----------------------------------------------------------
 Please, share the above information when looking for help
 or support in, e.g., GitHub, forums or the Discord chat.
-----------------------------------------------------------
[cont-init.d] 00-banner.sh: exited 0.
[cont-init.d] 01-log-level.sh: executing... 
[cont-init.d] 01-log-level.sh: exited 0.
[cont-init.d] bookstack.sh: executing... 
[23:08:07] WARNING: Bookstack is using the Maria DB addon
[23:08:07] WARNING: Please ensure this is included in your backups
[23:08:07] WARNING: Uninstalling the MariaDB addon will remove any data
[23:08:07] INFO: Creating database for Bookstack if required
[cont-init.d] bookstack.sh: exited 0.
[cont-init.d] nginx.sh: executing... 
[cont-init.d] nginx.sh: exited 0.
[cont-init.d] done.
[services.d] starting services
[services.d] done.
[23:08:10] INFO: Installing/updating Database
Nothing to migrate.
[23:08:11] INFO: Starting PHP-FPM...
[23:08:11] INFO: Starting NGinx...
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The server is running just fine. I asume you are using chrome who is blocking the non-standart port 2265. Try to using different browser (e.g. Firefox) or start chrome with parameter
Or use port that will chrome consider as safe.

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Amazing, there really was a problem in the Chrome browser. Thank you bro.

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Sorry, to open up this topic again, but is there a good alternative to bookstack or rather some way to avoid using MariaDB?

So why can´t we just use the SQLite DB directly as i heard that MariaDB causes the backup procedure to be dramatically slow (and is not the standard for HA as well)?

Is there any way?

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Are data from Bookstack saved in a full backup?

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I don’t know of any alternative unfortunately. Tt would be nice if the wiki was integrated into home assistance.

The backup lasts as long as it has to copy data. So yes there can be slowdowns if your MariaDB is big.

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Yes, data from MariaDB are contained in full backup.

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I found wiki.js today by chance. Before i had a Mediawiki instance running properly configured and linked to HA, but Wiki.js has a much nicer and easier setup so i will probably switch to that and integrate it into HA. Until now it works much better.