NAS mount on HASS OS

[ukro]

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Mount remote smb share on hassio

Hi, I need mount remote smb share on hassio and use it as storage for different use that need big storage instead internal disk (or sd with rpi) or external usb drive, so mount a remote smb share (mainly on nas) is a better solution and seems strange that hassos not already support it. I saw that hassos don’t have cifs support so I did a patch that add it and did a PR about it: https://github.com/home-assistant/hassos/pull/408 With modified hassos I can mount manually smb share on hassos and i…

[denilsonsa (Denilson Sá Maia)]

Use-cases for NAS mount (SMB/CIFS or NFS) on Home Assistant OS:

• Having an external Media source. (After all, a local /media directory is not good enough for people running the OS on SD card on Raspberry Pi or Odroid.)
• Having a way to store stuff from downloader. (e.g. Saving the videos captured by your Ring Door Bell, which is an example in the official HA documentation)
• Having a proper location for NVR tools (Network Video Recorder), such as Frigate.
• Having MariaDB, InfluxDB (or Graphite, or Prometheus) running inside HA OS, but storing the long-term data onto a NAS.
• Having all these large files outside the HA snapshots (backups), which will help making the snapshots much smaller and faster. (see this issue in influxdb add-on)
• Having fewer writes to the SD card can make it last longer, offloading the writes to a dedicated NAS system that is optimized for storage.

There are two main needs:

• Mount stuff to be available to the Home Assistant Core instance (running inside HA OS).
• Mount stuff to be available to Add-ons (also running inside HA OS).

There is also the problem with the credentials. Where should those be stored? I trust HA developers can figure out a good solution.

I hope this way I can make it easier to understand why users want this kind of feature.

[ukro]

Thank you for your comment, i pinned it on the top.

[CaptTom (Tom)]

@denilsonsa

Having all these large files outside the HA snapshots (backups), which will help making the snapshots much smaller and faster.

Better still, make the backup directly to the mounted NAS share, rather than create it on the HA device. This would be especially helpful for anyone running HA off an SD card (as the beginner instructions recommend.) Writing backups to the SD card is setting users up for failure.

Obviously that would require this feature request to be implemented, first.

[skubi23t (Skubi)]

Is there any option to mount the network disk to ha now?

[ukro]

Option 1 (recomended):

[SOLVED] HASSOS mount NAS network share

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Option 2:

Network share on Frigate HASSOS with nabucasa(SSL) and Proxmox LXC container

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[srk23]

Upvoting this. Use case is the same as the original OP - I use the Frigate add-on, and would like to be able to store my recordings on my NAS rather than eating up my primary SSD. I currently use @ukro solution, but manually updating the fstab files after each OS update is a pain the !"£$

The ability to keep mount points in /etc/fstab that persist across updates would allow people to keep network shares and secondary drives mounted easily for storage/backup purposes.

[bjornb (Bjorn)]

I completely agree. My NAS server is a lot slower then my HA server and would love to run jellyfin, plex and other stuff on my HA instance instead as running it in synology.

[hoffsta (Sean)]

It’s amazing that this isn’t possible. Why even have a Plex add-on without this ability. Seems like a massive oversight.

[pem884]

This is my use case as well, very similar to bjornb & others… I spent a couple of days / late nights trying to figure out how I might achieve something like this before I finally gave up.

• I want to use my QNAP NAS to serve my media files, but I want the frontend to run from Home Assistant OS on my Raspberry Pi
• I also would like to store cam recordings, system backups, etc. directly on the NAS

[Starryair (Łukasz Liniewicz)]

I would love to see this implemented too.

[ukro]

Lets go baby, more votes <3

[nejccc (Nejc)]

Being able to save / record to a network share would really be a smart choice.
I like that motionEye can record to network drive already but Frigate can’t for example and this is where an option like this would be very very useful
Many thanks in advance!

[abhi08638 (Abhi)]

Agreed, adding a network share right now is way too complicated for normal users

[amplitur (Lutz Lademann)]

Also supporting this feature request. Not being able to mount a network drive is very restrictive and limiting.

[ThaDuhFeez]

I vote for this as well. I’ve been at this for close to 3 days now trying to mount a drive and NOTHING has worked. Adding a network file share in Windows is super simple & straight forward.

This should have been implemented BEFORE the new media browser.

Not everyone wants all their media on the same machine as their HASS OS.

[richt (Rich)]

@ThaDuhFeez

Not everyone wants all their media on the same machine as their HASS OS.

I venture that “not everyone” is in reality “hardly anyone”.
Up-voting this feature request. It is a logical next step for media as well as storage of backups, etc…

[Twanne]

Incredible that this doesn’t work. It’s a standard feature of any OS.
I’ve been tearing my hair out for 2 days over this, so I hope they include this in one of the coming updates.

[bjornb (Bjorn)]

Yes. I also have tried quite a few evenings with so many different shell commands. Some of them actually created a share, but even with permissions right I couldn’t read, let alone write.

Hopefully this feature will be implemented soon as it’s basic Linux.

[AntonH]

Upvoting this as it’s a basic feature that should be easily implemented.
The use for this is also extensive: Plex libraries, NVR storage, media storage for use in automations, backup storage, …
Especially with people running HA on Raspberry Pi it’s a very welcome addition.
Personally, my NAS hasn’t the performance to run Plex transcoding, but the NUC that I run HA on has plenty. Only, I can’t put a 4TB SSD in that hardware…