Hello, I am using synology for home assistant. So I am unable to install, supervisor, HACS, and all of that. I was interested in looking for themes. The Mushroom theme for example, but everytime i try to learn how to install it points me to HACS. Can this be done without HACS?
Can you possibly explain what you installed, docker I guess? And why you cannot install HACS (error?)
Running the full HA OS VMware image on Synology’s VMM works perfectly, except for the nuisance of having to re-map USB devices to the VM whenever the NAS reboots because VMM does not save that one simple configuration item…
My synology box is for a Plex server. I don’t want to add anything else to it but just the docker I have now. I realize the easier solution is just buy a RP4, but I have enough decices running at all times, and my electric bill is high enough lol so I just want to leave as is.
Was just wondering even if it required more work, if it was possible to install manually or without HACS
HACS works perfectly fine in a Synology Docker container. However, it does depend on having the HA configuration directory outside the container (which isn’t difficult to set up, and a good idea anyway because otherwise, if your Docker container gets removed, your HA setup gets removed).
Oh that’s pretty cool. Would you by chance have a link or a quick guide to do that? Or should I take to google?
There are plenty of examples on the HA pages or even on youtube on how to do this…e.g. this one
would mean that you map a docker internal ‘config’ to a folder on your NAS… when you remove the docker container, that folder will remain and contains all your settings/db/etc…also easy when upgradeing and even having a separate dev instance on the same machine
I am still not sure what you meant that you could install HA but not HACS though
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So I followed the instructions on hacs.xyz, it downloads but fails to unzip cause synology uses 7zip instead of unzip. Is there a simple work around for this?
I just meant home assistant was easy to install. I click on it right in the docker. HACS on the other hand I’m having trouble installing. I followed what it said on hacs.xyz to install it in container but it won’t unzip cause synology uses 7zip instead of unzip
I have the same issue here
If you unzip it IN the container then you are not (!) on Syno OS and it works fine.
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