Thanks for the startup help provided.
So I was able to do a quick crash course on the basics of docker, installation of docker on RPi3 and then homeassistant. At first the concepts are a bit confusing to make the distinction between Home assistant, HassIO, HassOS, Hassbian and still continues a bit. The image and container also appeared to be same until I read they are not. The image v/s container v/s volume is still to be clarified by myself. Taking random bites of info here and there.
As of now I am unable to understand the user of docker-compose , although I have got it installed, I am unable to understand where to put docker-compose.yml files, and can there be many files or just one, and can we use any other names for these files and how do they come handy and so on…Leaving it parked for the while.
After docker I pulled home assistant image as guided over here Installation on Docker by running the following
$ docker run -d --name="home-assistant" -v /path/to/your/config:/config -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro --net=host homeassistant/raspberrypi3-homeassistant
Post the docker command I was able to access the docker container at localhost:8123. Have created the account and logged in, did some basic location and weather settings in the configruation-yaml file. Have created a folder as /home/pi/homeass/config to hold my config file.
Then i found that portainer.io is good tool to visualze and GUIzed the interaction with images and containers, so I pulled it from here Portainer.io
$ docker volume create portainer_data
$ docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer
Now portainer is running at localhost:9000 .
Onwards I came across some threads to install Hass.io as a docker images (without flashing on SD card) , which should add the supervisor dock to my existing home assistant container (or installation whatever it is) to ease out the process of adding addons and basic configuration for a newbie like me.
Reading thru the following threads :
https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/8t9wd9/docker_image_of_hassio_ha/
https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-build/tree/master/install#install-hassio
https://triradiate.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/hassio-on-docker-on-lubuntu/
and
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/hass-io-via-docker/60720
I understood I need to run the following (and read the script to some sketchy level of understanding that I could do).
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/hassio-build/master/install/hassio_install | bash -s
After the script I guess i have the following running containers in my docker registry. I guess the “homeassistant/armhf-hassio-supervisor” image is added by the hass.io script above.
Afterwards I logged in the home assistant again to see if the supervisor and addons menu dock is added to my instance or not. However it still show the same bare bones menu items. So as I expected from the thread, I cannot see the Hass.io option in my home assistance docker as desired below
Hass IO on Home Assistant Docker
Can you please help further how to sort it out.
Thanks for the guidance.