Newb to HA here.
Goal: Currently have home automation solely through Google Home and am foraying into Home Assistant to try my hand at more control of the smart devices in my house.
Man…I’m an IT professional, no coder mind you, but I’m decently technically savvy.
HA though…I was not prepared for how finicky it can be.
My Installation:
Home Assistant OS 10.5 Core 2023.8.3
Installed using a Hyper-V virtual machine I setup from my Windows 10 Pro Desktop.
About my current Internet:
-Running utility company fiber through a Google Router/Mesh setup
Initial install, I couldn’t get any network connectivity. Was able to get to the local home assistant site on my pc but nothing auto discovered etc…
Ended up trashing it and starting over. I followed (I forget the install video now) a video and realized I needed to set up an External Virtual Switch for the install.
Done and boom, first launch of HA discovered almost everything in the house.
Issues:
Been following Automation Fixation’s (YouTube) initial setup videos and starting to install add-ons.
I have not touched any of the devices or integrations as of yet because I need to get some things under my belt.
1)I’ve Installed Samba Share and configured it. For whatever reason I simply cannot open anything HA related in file explorer using either the local address, the IP or doing both as mapped drives. Can’t find the path etc…
2)Installed Duck DNS, gone to their site, created a Domain, configured it with that domain and token and am at the point of trying to add in the certificate configuration into the configuration.yaml file. Copying it straight in and when I check config, fails.
3)Adding on to #2, I had to install File Editor because…I cannot get Studio Code Server to install. I can install other add-ons but not this one.
I get this:
"Failed to install add-on
Can’t install ghcr.io/hassio-addons/vscode/amd64:5.10.1: 500 Server Error for h t tp+docker://localhost/v1.42/images/create?tag=5.10.1&fromImage=ghcr.io%2Fhassio-addons%2Fvscode%2Famd64&platform=linux%2Famd64: Internal Server Error (“Get “ht t ps://ghcr.io/v2/”: dial tcp 140.82.112.33:443: connect: no route to host”)"
I added a new topic as through searching I couldn’t really find anyone who couldn’t install this add-on and more to the point, couldn’t install just THIS add-on while being able to install others.
It makes me think I’ve got some sort of DNS error.
In HA I’ve got IPv4 set to statick and my DNS server set to that of my Google Router.
I know…there is more information some of you will want/need to even remotely help me but I appreciate any advice thrown my way.
Thanks again.
EDIT/UPDATE:
Ultimately I think my issue was the virtual ethernet switch I had created with my Hyper-V machine.
I ended up trashing the virtual, ditching Hyper-V and went with Virtualbox. Followed an instructional video to the letter and the main thing was switching from NAT to Bridged Adapter and then selecting my main NIC on my PC. Then my HA instance ended up with a 192.168.x.x IP address akin to the rest of my network.
After doing this and reconfiguring HA, I was able to successfully install Studio Code Server and also get Samba Share working.
On to the next issue…