Tutorial: add Homebridge to Hass.io using Portainer

Third party integrations Homebridge
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My homebridge docker has Node.js Version v14.15.4 and Npm Version v6.14.10.
I have only updated homebridge when prompted through the web gui.
I am on homebridge v1.2.5.

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yes sure, description above:


version: '2'
services:
  hoobs:
    image: hoobs/hoobs:latest
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - PGID=0
      - PUID=0
    volumes:
      - /mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant/hoobs:/hoobs
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you have to pull the latest image, to update the complete docker, to the new node and npm version. description above…

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Thanks @thecem and @Hackashaq666 for your reaction.

@thecem, you mentioned to recreate the homebridge image. Will the config-file and existing plugins stay or do I have to install/config them again?
Just check before all data is gone :wink:

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If you have your config for homebridge in config/homebridge in HA, nothing will be lost.
If you would like to be double secure backup your config via homebridge UI. Additional copy your config (all files without folder node_modules) out of config/homebridge to your backup place.

I do this since I’ve onboarded hb to HA via portainer, and really never had any problem!
Also this is the fastest way to build up a hb or hoobs.
hoobs is nice but more for rasps not really for docker.
I love the oznu/homebridge docker with UI fast slim nice…

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If you change the volumes section of the docker-compose to point to the share folder, it will be backed-up with home assistant snapshots, but these will be larger snapshots, mine are >100 mb:

version: '2'
services:
  homebridge:
    image: oznu/homebridge:latest
    container_name: homebridge
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - TZ=America/New_York
      - PGID=1000
      - PUID=1000
      - HOMEBRIDGE_CONFIG_UI=1
      - HOMEBRIDGE_CONFIG_UI_PORT=8080
    volumes:
      - /mnt/data/supervisor/share/homebridge:/homebridge
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Hi, i followed all the step, but i got an issue with the host.

when i start Homebridge, i got " hostname: hassio not found "
Did i miss something?
thx for your help.

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try using homeassistant as the hostname.

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I assume portainer has changed since this was written, i cant seem to find the option to deploy a stack. Has it been renamed?

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It’s still there.
Select “Stacks” then press “Add Stack” and scroll down to the the “Deploy the stack” button

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Thank you. I found I have to click on the container first the stacks option was not showing up at all for me. Then I found what I was looking to do has since been intergrated to ha anyway. So much fun learning these things. Reminds me why I picked the network path over software dev path in college.

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Followed the setup…and I’m familiar with Portainer…but whenever I try to “deploy the stack” I get image

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Hi, could you please help me to remove HomeBridge from Home Assistant?
I’ve been runnning HomeBridge on Home Assistant for about 4 months now.
The only problem is that Home Assistant supervisor complains that the installation is unsupported.
I would really appreciate if you could help me how I will uninstall it?
Thanks a lot

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If you don’t need homebridge:

Go to portainer, remove the homebridge stack, then remove the homebridge image. Reboot ha, supervisor should be clean.

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Is there another way to add HomeBridge to the same Raspberry Pi running HA now that Portainer is discontinued?

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Wait - wouldn’t the Home Assistant supervisor complain that the installation is unsupported? Same as with @Mr.ToR, I ran into this a couple of months ago:

So… Has that changed since? Are we good to do portainer and homebridge in HAOS these days without the “unsupported” alert?

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You’ll definitely get the unsupported installation alert by doing this.

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HomeBridge Installation inside Home Assistant (Docker)

Today I was helping a friend and I did a fresh install of Home Assistant Operating System on a Raspberry Pi 4, and installed Portainer and Homebridge on Docker.

I used that docker-compose code to spin up homebridge:

version: '2'
services:
  homebridge:
    image: oznu/homebridge:latest
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - PGID=1000
      - PUID=1000
      - HOMEBRIDGE_CONFIG_UI=1
      - HOMEBRIDGE_CONFIG_UI_PORT=8581
    volumes:
      - /homebridge

Here are additional useful links:

Base tutorial video (needs modifications):

Add-on repo for Portainer and doc:

Homebridge Docker image details:
https://hub.docker.com/r/oznu/homebridge/

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what does that entail?