USB/IP Implementation

Installation Home Assistant OS
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This is also a good tutorial too, I should probably just join them all into one that works from start to finish lol.

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It is true that you can only bind by the bus ID, but if you only have one device with this vendor/device ID, you can make things a bit more reliable.

I used systemd-usbip/README.md at master ¡ furbrain/systemd-usbip ¡ GitHub to have reliabiltiy here. Also USB/IP - ArchWiki gives some ideas how to do it.

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This finally allowed me to bring my Sonoff dongle into my Hyper-V instance of Home Assistant OS!
I installed and ran USBIPD on the Windows VM host, it listed the dongle at bus 5-1, so I ran the command to bind it (with the force option). back in my HA, pointed the config for your add-on to the host server IP, and poof! dongle discovered!
The USBIPD needs a Task Scheduler command with options created by me to that it launches whenever the server starts-up.
I hope this can help, I see a lot of posts about how to bring dongles into VM instances of Home assistant over network when local passthrough isn’t possible or preferred, but very very few working solutions!

I tried using a Digi “USBAnywhere” network USB hub with this VM host, and it almost worked, but the dongle was listed in USBIPD as being on an “incompatible hub” with no bus attributes. I might reach-out to the USBIPD dev about that little glitch.

Thankyou Thankyou!

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Hey everyone,

I need to move my proxmox to the basement but I have two USB dongle connected to it. One is a zigbee dongle which I would like to replace with a ZMLight one but the other one is a proprietary stick for my shutters. I searched for a remote USB solution and found this thread with @syngin’s addon. This looks like a suitable solution for my use case, but I need a device for the USB/IP server. Could anyone recommend me a low power device which is capable of running USB/IP?

Thanks in advance

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Hi,

I am using an Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3.

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Hi, following this thread with great interest :slight_smile: ! !
and have a couple of questions:

  1. in HAOS, how is the USB device mounted? is like /dev/something?
  1. On the remote/server side, when the USB device is replugged (unplug, then plug back in), doesn’t the device number portion of the bus change? and if so what happens?

Thanks!

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I’m having severe reliability issues with USBIPD-WIN on my Windows 11 machine, and CryptedX’s USBIP client in HASSOS, and I’m wondering if anyone else has faced similar issues - and if so what they’ve done to resolve them. I’m close to giving up and switching to a different Zigbee radio, but I have 121 devices paired, and do NOT want to deal with migrating them.

The issue is that at least twice/day (often times more) HA just loses connection to the Zigbee controller, and the only way to fix it is to restart the USBIP add-on, which reconnects to the controller, and ZHA reinitializes. The entire process takes several minutes though, and it seems to be down every time someone in the house tries to turn a light on or off.

I never have to touch the USBIPD windows service, so I don’t THINK it is the problem - unless it is failing to communicate quickly enough with the add-on to maintain connection?

Logs don’t tell me much, though I see a weird web server response after the USBIP add-on starts up and initially connects to the controller.

Any suggestions? Anyone else facing similar issues?

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I had a similar issue with have exact same setup: Win11 + HyperV + USPIPD.
I solved it by:

  • plugging the Zigbee device in an USB 2 port instead of an USB 3 port
  • muving the router further away from the Zigbee dongle

If you still have problems use an USB cable extender so the Zigbee dogle doesn’t pick up interferences from the PC.

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I am facing a similar issue. I used to run the below command on windows 11 using admin powershell on start to share my zigbee dongle to my docker home assistant.

usbipd attach —wsl —-busid 1-2

Now I get the below error:

usbipd: info: Using WSL distribution 'Ubuntu' to attach; the device will be available in all WSL 2 distributions. 
usbipd: info: Loading vhci_hcd module. 
usbipd: error: Loading vhci_hcd failed.
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i am try to connect my becker usb dongle via usb/ip to HA.
But cant find it. - Zigbee and Nabu_Casa_SkyConnect_v1.0 works.
No errors on bind in HA.
any ideas why my: /dev/serial/by-id/usb-Becker-Antriebe_GmbH_CDC_RS232_v125_Centronic-if00 is not working

Some Errors in HA Consolle with message: vhci_hcd: vhci_device speed not set

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I found some other messegaes in the HA Console:
usb 4-3: device descriptor read/64 error -32
usb 4-3: device descriptor read/8 error -32
usb usb4-port3: unable to enumerate USB device

Any ideas?