Starting with docker-compose

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Hi,

I installed hassio in a docker, i love home assistant but i’m stuck with forwarding devices.
My problem is i got 2 usb dongles (zigbee and zwave)

The problem i got is that, if i use in the config file /dev/ttyACM0 and /dev/ttyACM1
When i reboot sometimes the usb dongles exchange number so it doesn’t work anymore.
So i wanna use /dev/serial/by-id/ to be sure that it can’t change

From my research i understood that i should use docker-compose file to set what and how devices are forward to the docker.

But i don’t understood how to start with this.
Should I just create the file and it will automagically work ?
If so can i just define the home assistant config ? or i need to define every addons ?

I’m afraid of breaking my installation with bad configuration.

So how can I easily forward devices to home assistant, without breaking anything ?

Thank you for your help
bobzer

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Hi,

I dont use hass.io but I do use docker compose and serial id. All I needed to do was pass the serial id folder location though to the docker container. This is the hass part of my compose file.

  homeassistant:
    container_name: homeassistant
    restart: unless-stopped
    image: homeassistant/home-assistant
    devices:
      - /dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0
      - /dev/ttyUSB1:/dev/ttyUSB1
      - /dev/ttyACM0:/dev/ttyACM0
    volumes:
      - ${USERDIR}/docker/homeassistant:/config
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - ${USERDIR}/docker/shared:/shared
      - /dev/serial/by-id/:/dev/serial/by-id/
    network_mode: host
    privileged: true
    environment:
      - PUID=${PUID}
      - PGID=${PGID}
      - TZ=${TZ}
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Thank you very much for your answer

I don’t use hassio directly i also use docker but without the docker compose and that’s my problem i don’t understand how to start with docker compose.

the config you gave me, should I just copy it in a docker-compose.yaml file and that’s it ? (i don’t have this file)

can i get the config used right now ? (i guess it’s the default one but not sure)

thank you for your time

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I used two guides to help me to understand how to use Docker compose DigitalOcean and smart home beginner. Have a read through both of them and you will be up and running in no time.

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I’ll look at it thanks

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With hassio you don’t have access to docker compose.

You don’t need docker compose either. You can just modify your run command that the script installs in systemd

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Cool didn’t know that (glad to avoid docker compose if i don’t need to)
so i can just had --devices=/dev/serial/by-id/*** to the command ?
but can you tell me where is that file ?

thank you

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There is a school of thought in the very large clustering situations (FAANG+M -type companies, Lyft, Indeed, etc) that use a “Gitops” mentality: the config is checked into version-control as much as possible.

The non-obvious benefit of docker-compose is that you’ve got your complete config to launch the docker container in one place. In 6 months when you’ve forgotten the config (or in my case, 2 weeks) you may need to go digging for it; me, I just re-run the “docker-compose up -d”.

Version-controlling it means “oh, crap, what did I break? revert to yesterday”.

You don’t need to explain much to anyone, it’s just “yeah, I use docker-compose. the compose file is version-controlled to catch my changes”. The skills you build doing this convey elsewhere. It’s good and common practice.

… also, like @michaelmcarthur above, if someone else needs help, you have the current config right there, and can help others.

Send me a PM if you want more, I’ve kinda distracted this channel a bit (sorry).

… but go with the “docker-compose”. Edit the example above to suit your environment, and kick it off. If you’re unsure, post your config here, or to me in a PM, I’ll build you one if it helps you get started.

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Thank you
in that case i need to confirm something:
with docker compose do you need to manually configure every new addons ?
that’s the reason i’m kind of afraid of docker compose because if that’s mean i can’t install addons from hassio anymore it’s a big step back ?
and the maintenance of docker-compose vs nothing to do because the addons interface manage it for you … i feel like i’m getting into something more complicate.
I will do it if i need to, but i’ll be glad to keep my system as easy as possible (easy to operate and to maintain)

thank you

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you’re correct: the “docker-compose” route is really the non-hassio route. The “add-ons” are all orchestrated by the hassio-supervisor, so non-hassio is non-addons.

“docker-compose” is really “better than remembering a complex ‘docker run -d’ command”; running a docker command also gets you homeassistant, not hassio, so no add-ons.

The best-of-both-worlds would be a docker-compose config to run the hassio-supervisor, using it to pull and install your first hassio image. Essentially, the hassio-supervisor becomes your docker-manager, replacing docker-compose, but I’m sure you could use a docker-compose argument to record your commands for hassio-supervisor, if you knew them. THAT is the direction I’d prefer to go personally, but when I have time to investigate.

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You should have a look at the script you ran to install it.

It’s a systemd file

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Actually i did but didn’t see it … i look again :slight_smile:
BTW: I used this https://www.home-assistant.io/hassio/installation/#alternative-install-on-generic-linux-server
and so the script is : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/hassio-build/master/install/hassio_install

From my understanding it’s the supervisor wich handle home assistant and so the config to modify should be inside the supervisor. Am I right ?

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seem interesting idea but I don’t clearly understand what you mean.

Actually i don’t run any docker -run command the supervisor handle everything for me

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Yep sorry about that but if you follow along the code, you see the home assistant docker container is already privileged which means it should see every device connected.

https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio/blob/dev/hassio/docker/homeassistant.py

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yes home assistant see the device but not the /dev/serial/by-id/ folder only the device directly as /dev/ttyACM0
my problem is similar as :


specially :

so do you think the solution could be to open a feature request ? or maybe add :
str(self.sys_config.path_extern_share):
{‘bind’: ‘/dev/serial/by-id’, ‘mode’: ‘rw’},
to homeassistant.py at line 74 ?

thanks for your time :blush:

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I would suggest a feature request but there’s probably already one out there for it.

Modifying that Python file would require you to build the docker image every update.

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Hey Micheal, thanks for posting, I’ve been searching on how to do that myself.
Would you mind posting a few examples of how you have this configured in your configuration.yaml file?
is it just as easy as entering:
device: /dev/serial/by-id/the_name-of_your_device

Thanks

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You’re totally right there is a few that i didn’t see before …

I guess i’ll have to wait :frowning_face:

thanks again for your help
thanks you too @chickenandporn

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It’s really that easy. I moved from a raspberry pi non docker to a server running docker and it worked straight away. This is my zwave config.

zwave:
  usb_path: /dev/serial/by-id/usb-0658_0200-if00
  device_config: !include zwave_device_config.yaml
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Thanks
it finally works…
the crazy parts is that i just tried again and now it knows about /dev/serial/by-id
i now have the supervisor in version 143 so i guess it’s fixed in that version

thanks again everyone who tried to help me :slight_smile:

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