Solved - I asked claude.ai to help me install Network USB Tools and it did what perplexity.ai, chatgpt.com and this forum couldn’t do. NUT is working fine.
I am trying to install Network UPS Tools Add-On and Integration on HAOS on my Home Assistant Yellow to monitor a GoldenMate 1000VA UPS.
I carefully read the documentation, associated links and consulted with ChatGPT. I see three other HA Forum posts about this error, but no solution for me.
The NUT logs show that it recognizes the UPS as:
“Bus 001 Device 072: ID 06da:ffff Phoenixtec Power Co., Ltd Smart-Battery.”
I get the error message:
“USB communication driver (libusb 1.0) 0.46
libusb1: Could not open any HID devices: insufficient permissions on everything.”
ChatGPT says, “HID USB (like GoldenMate) is blocked → cannot work on HAOS add-on containers.”
I have successfully configured a Dummy UPS, but as soon as I add the GoldenMate, the Add-On shuts down with the libusb1 error.
By the way, the GoldenMate works fine with my iMac using the same USB cables.
ChatGPT suggests “Run NUT in Docker on macOS or Linux, plug the UPS there, and point HA at it.
If you want, next I can:
Give you a drop-in docker-compose.yml for Phoenixtec
Or show a minimal Pi Zero UPS bridge design
You’re not crazy — you found a real HAOS edge case that bites a lot of power users.”
It is technically possible, but not very convenient to use my iMac as a UPS bridge, and the Yellow is always on and the iMac is not.
The current version of the NUT Add-On is v0.17
0. This version does not have a Web UI and lacks a checkbox to elevate permissions like older versions.
Is there a workaround for the libusb1 error without using another device?