Unable to connect to port 8123

Installation
1

After a brand new installation of image: “Package home-assistant · GitHub”
looking at
Alternative - Home Assistant

no problem in booting, but unable to connect to port 8123.
where to go to dig into the logs to get a clue of the problem?
I’m on Mac and
netstat | grep 8123 is empty

Docker Desktop 4.29.0 (145265) is currently the newest version available.

docker log :
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: starting
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully started
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: starting
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: starting
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: starting
services-up: info: copying legacy longrun home-assistant (no readiness notification)
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started

Thanks for your help.

2

Do you mean 8123?

3

run

docker ps

in terminal to see is container running and if it is on what port does it listen.

4

yes of course !
I am dyslexic :slight_smile:

5 
docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                          COMMAND        CREATED       STATUS                 PORTS                                                                                        NAMES
dc6da035557d   ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:latest   "/init"        3 hours ago   Up 3 hours

no port !

6

because you are running it in host mode.

sudo netstat -tunlp | grep 8123

should give you info is something listening on that port.

7

it’s empty

8

then you will have to post you configuration here. Are you running it in docker or docker compose ?

9

with docker compose

version: '3'
services:
  homeassistant:
    container_name: homeassistant
    image: "ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:latest"
    volumes:
      - /Users/proux/ha/config:/config
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - /run/dbus:/run/dbus:ro
#    restart: unless-stopped
    privileged: true
    network_mode: host
10

I dont see anything wrong with it. Have nearly the same config but i dont use privileged.
For testing purposes do

# network_mode: host
ports
  - 8123:8123

and do docker compose up -d
Container should be now listen to port 8123.
If it doesnt you could try

docker compose up -d --no-deps --build homeassistant

to rebuild image.

11 
MBM3-PROUX:ha proux$ docker compose up -d
WARN[0000] /Users/proux/ha/docker-compose.yml: `version` is obsolete 
[+] Running 2/2
 ✔ Container homeassistant                                                  Started                                                                                                                                                                    0.0s 
 ! homeassistant Published ports are discarded when using host network mode                                                                                                                                                                            0.0s 
MBM3-PROUX:ha proux$ docker compose up -d --no-deps --build homeassistant
WARN[0000] /Users/proux/ha/docker-compose.yml: `version` is obsolete 
[+] Running 1/0
 ✔ Container homeassistant  Running

and

netstat -tunl | grep 8123

is empty

12

try version 3.8

Disable in yaml file host mode like

# network_mode: host
13

OK, it’s run …

version: '3'
services:
  homeassistant:
    container_name: homeassistant
    image: "ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:latest"
    volumes:
      - /Users/proux/ha/config:/config
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - /run/dbus:/run/dbus:ro
#    restart: unless-stopped
    privileged: true
#    network_mode: host
    ports:
      - 8123:8123
14

You will have to play a bit with it. If things go south rebuild image and that is basically it.

15

Thanks !
JPP

16

After you gain a better understanding of docker, change your docker networking to MacVlan.

It provides docker container with its own IP/MAC using your hosts network adapter and will help deal with discovery issues you will soon be scratching your head over. I wouldn’t do this for all containers. Just HA really.

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