Using Konnected with Home Assistant in a Linux Container

Third party integrations
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I thought this information might be useful. I have Home Assistant running in a LXD container and I was having a lot of trouble getting my Konnected devices set up. It took me a fair while to figure out exactly what was going on and what to search for to resolve it.

All that was required was I had to setup my Konnected config as follows

devices:
  - id: <mac address>
    host: <ip address>
    port: <port>

Discovering the IP address was easy since I could look at the active DHCP leases on my router. To discover the port took a bit of effort by running a port scan using nmap. From what I can tell that port will never change. To make sure the devices don’t change IP I set them to static DHCP leases.

If anyone can tell me how to make Home Assistant, running in an LXD container, talk to the Konnected devices please do because I have given up trying to figure it out.

2

I doubt anyone here has done that. Those who use containers use the supported Docker containers.

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Better to share it and save someone else the trouble than not. Imagine if everyone shared how they resolved problems like this…