@sparkydave @denilsonsa I’m sorry, I made some mistakes by obfuscating and simplifying the configuration. I edited the post with correct version
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No I can’t. I think you are right, this is only for HA Docker.
I didn’t catch at all the point of the post, sorry.
@sparkydave, your command-line seems sane. But maybe the issue is in quoting. Unless you use weird characters in your password, you don’t need the quotes on the parameter after -o. Instead, what I would suggest is to add quotes around the whole command.
# Try replacing this:
shell_command:
mount_my_folder: mkdir … ; mount … -o 'ro,…' //192… /media/…
# With this:
shell_command:
mount_my_folder: 'mkdir … ; mount … -o ro,… //192… /media/…'
In the second example above, the quotes are around the entire command, which explicitly tells the YAML parser this should be treated as a string. Well, YAML can automatically detect strings even without quotes, but YAML syntax rules are weird and can sometimes lead to unexpected results.
If you have weird characters in your password, try limiting to letters, numbers, and a few “safe” symbols: ._-+=:/@%^. If you insist on using other symbols, then you need to figure out how to safely escape those characters both in the shell syntax and in YAML.
But maybe your issue is somewhere else…
The whole setup is made of three parts (or four parts, depending how you count):
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media_dirsconfiguration, which tells HA where to look for media files. If you’re running HA inside a container (and a HAOS install does run the HA core inside a container), please be aware this path is inside the container filesystem. See the documentation: Media Source - Home Assistant -
shell_commandthat would create and mount the shared folders.- To avoid accidentally exposing the credentials if/when you share your main
configuration.yamlfile, you can move the entire command tosecrets.yaml. See the documentation: Storing secrets - Home Assistant - We are actually chaining two commands in a single command line:
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mkdirto create a new directory. The-pmeans “create any parent directories as needed, and don’t complain if the directory already exists”. -
mountto actually mount the network share into that directory.
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- We can chain commands using:
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;→ the second will run regardless of the state of the first one -
&&→ the second will only run if the first one succeeded -
||→ the second will only run if the first failed - For our purposes here, both
&∧would work just fine.
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- This overview is enough for our purposes. If you want to learn more about this subject, look for tutorials and lessons about UNIX shell, sh, and bash.
- To avoid accidentally exposing the credentials if/when you share your main
- An
automationthat would run theshell_commandduring the HA startup. See the documentation: Shell Command - Home Assistant and Automation Trigger - Home Assistant
If all these parts are correctly set up, the whole thing should work. If it doesn’t, look for clues and error messages in 
. You can also manually trigger the automation 
or manually call the shell_command service 
and then look for new error messages in the logs. Finally, you can also use ssh to open a shell inside your HA container and then you can inspect the directories and see what’s happening. Explaining this is beyond the scope of my reply, but this requires just some basic UNIX/Linux skills.
I do have a ! in there but I can happily change the password to something more simple.
I’ll try going through your info over the weekend. Thanks for a such a detailed response.
Thanks @srk23 . Any chance of slightly more detailed instructions?
I’m stuck as to how actually mount (and access) the secondary hard drive in my other VM.
Thanks
I presume you are using home assistant in a Proxmox VM?
If so, you need to make sure that the home assistant VM is shut down before starting.
You will need to create a second VM from which to mount the home assistant disk - I just use a generic ubuntu server image.
Note the ID of the HA and Ubuntu VMs in proxmox - for me this is 100 for HA, and 103 for Ubuntu.
The open a console to your Proxmox server, and edit the following file (substitute “103” for the number of your Ubuntu VM:
sudo nano /etc/pve/nodes/brain/qemu-server/103.conf
In the file, add a new line to allow you to access your HA disk (substitute the “100” for the ID of your HA VM). Use a free SCSI disk ID (I already have SCSI0, so went to 1):
scsi1: local-lvm:vm-100-disk-1
Save the file, and then boot the Ubuntu VM. SSH into the Ubuntu VM. If you type:
fdisk -l
You should see your HA disk and it’s partitions listed.
You can then follow the instructions at the top if this post to unsquash, edit and resquash the filesystem - for me the partitions are sdb3 and sdb5.
Once complete, remove the temporary files and shutdown the Ubuntu VM. Edit the Proxmox config file above to comment out the HA disk (not strictly necessary, but will prevent issues if you accidentally boot the VM whilst HA is running). Boot the HA VM, and you should be good.
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In case it’s useful to previous posters or anyone who gets here from a search, I wrote a detailed post describing how I got Frigate recording to a SMB share on Home Assistant OS on a Home Assistant Blue. I think this approach would work for anyone who wants to stick with Home Assistant OS / HASSOS. This strategy survives host restarts and upgrades. The compromise is that it involves giving HA core SSH access to the host. This is working well for me so far - at least until an official way of mounting shares into the media directory comes along.
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Thank you for tutorial, thank you for link to my Feature request there! <3
One remark for people reading, as it is waiting for ping and as you wrote that you need to manually turn on Frigate addon.
But if you use my solution and if you have local host only network on proxmox lets say, then Frigate Addon can be automaticaly started. Ofcourse the negative part of mine is that you need to run the image to change fstab every time you do an upgrade/update 
Maybe it is possible to run addon automaticaly from automation after the mount?
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Thanks 100 times for this awesome tutorial… thanks to you all my recordings now go on my nas and i can save 90 days and more 
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Strange the script doesn’t work for me …I have manually to mount the drive two times in SSH add-on. First attempt tells me is no mointpoint and second run tells me is mount point .any idea ?
thanks this solved my 3 month-long problems, I am very grateful!., I’ve been running around in circles for months on end, trying to find a solution and this ultimately solved my Frigate problem and other use-case relating to large storage in HomeAssistant. The binary sensor command is not working for me though “[ -f /media/thisisnas ] && echo ‘on’ || echo ‘off’” my nas is at //192.168.1.244/homeassistantmedia
so I created my version of binary_Sensor of
- platform: command_line
name: NAS Mount
command: “[ -f /homeassistantmedia ] && echo ‘on’ || echo ‘off’”
payload_on: “on”
payload_off: “off”
however, it is always showing off. thanks in advance , appreciate your work and the community contributing.
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You need to place a file in your share with the text “1” in the body. The binary sensor points to that file to look for the contents of the file and detect whether it is there or not.
In my example the file is called “nasup”
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yep it works , thanks!
By the way , Im running HassOS as VM in proxmox, I noticed that my backup before this solution was around 68GB but after mounting the shared the backup file is now 75GB. I checked my Frigate share in NAS it has 7GB of clips/recordings there. It seems backing up the clips too . Can I double-check with someone if those clips are being backed up as well?
Is there a way for me to disable the mount ,then I will remount it with no issues after I backup ?
If your HAOS vm is offline/stopped and you backup VM from proxmox, it definetly not taking the NAS data as the machine is offline and proxmox have no way to read and mount it from stopped VM
What i am thinking is the problem that you have started frigate before you setup the network mount and you have some recordings left there.
make sense, I tried your recommendation my backup is now 90GB even though it is shutdown and I backed up as Stopped as opposed to Snapshot. I was wondering if those frigate files are parked somwhere.I can definitely confirm that they are in the NAS as I accessed the files whilst the HomeAssistant VM is shutdown. Is there a shell or CLI command that will allow me to harmlessly unmount the NAS , then after I backup I can re-mount without breaking anything.
Try removing the mount command from fstab. You can do it by running my script, press enter on every question but on the question about sda, write sda and then it stop proccessing you can go to another console write “sudo mc” and then navigate to tmp sda3/sda5 and change the mount location to different folder any folder so its not the one that is used in media Home Assistant. Then boot to HASS and look to media and delete everything.
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I have 3TB of frigate on my NAS, and the backup uncompressed is 32GB
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my home assistant drive has been constantly 100% full. Before Frigate my home assistant storage has always been around 20% for the last 1 year. definitely has something to do with the frigate mount which I cannot figure out. Is there a way to find out where the files are accumulating? I deleted all the frigate files from the NAS but the Home Assistant is still 100% full.
I know for sure the mount is writing to the NAS but at the same time, I think it is creating files in the home assistant drive too which I don’t know where and why. I have uninstalled the Frigate but don’t know where to find those files. can somebody pls advise of share if you have the same experience?
Frigate is spitting error that cache is full
[2022-09-05 10:22:28] frigate.record ERROR : [Errno 28] No space left on device: ‘/media/frigate/recordings/2022-09/05/10’
[2022-09-05 10:22:33] frigate.record ERROR : Error occurred when attempting to maintain recording cache
[2022-09-05 10:22:33] frigate.record ERROR : [Errno 28] No space left on device:
but that location is on my nas and I only have 150GB out of 1TB allocated there. I feel that it is caching elsewhere within the drive of Home Assistant even though the clips, recordings and snapshots are writing to the NAS.