Using network folder/drive

[Proxid]

Greetings,

I have a problem with accessing network drives. I have samba setup and working when accessing my config file from my windows computer. However I would like to go the other way around. I want my raspberry pi/home assistant to access my NAS and use files from a folder on the NAS.

I use the following components:
Folder_watcher
Camera.local_file

I want both the watcher and the local file to point to a file/folder on the network drive/NAS folder.

This is what I have setup already

folder_watcher:
  - folder: http://192.168.1.89/Viktigt/LarmBakup/Snapshot/Terass
    patterns:
      - '*.jpg'

I also tried

folder_watcher:
  - folder: \\nas\Viktigt\LarmBakup\Snapshot\Terass
    patterns:
      - '*.jpg'

EDIT: I have a synology NAS if that makes any difference

[silvrr]

What are the permissions like on the symbology share? What type of share?

[Proxid]

Well I’m the admin so I can choose whatever permissions I like. Basically what I’m asking is HOW I can link to a folder on a network drive. No matter what I write as a link it “can’t find it” so I’m thinking about if its the syntax I’m using that’s wrong.

Reading from the PI sd-card itself works just fine, no matter what I put on it, it’s just that I can’t seen to read from a network drive

[JTPublic (JT)]

I have only samba share on my network and no dedicated NAS but I don’t think you can directly access network share file/folder in HA, at least not samba share in HA.
Have not used folder watch yet, if it’s anything like inotifywait, it probably would not work on network share either.

I used to mount my snapshot share folder in HA machine and then process/copy files using a bash script into a /local folder for HA to use. (switched to camera.snapshot now)

It’s quite clumsy, but your jpg is on synology NAS, ftp to HA first may be a possible?

[Proxid]

JTPublic may I ask for the bash script to move files from network to HA?

[Proxid]

There have been others that had success with accessing NAS folders from PI.

Folder watcher (Watchdog) component

I’ll share a use case I just completed using Folder Watcher (Thanks for this!!) I have a security camera that has motion zones configured within its view and if motion is detected in a zone it takes a picture and sends a jpeg file (each time with a different name) to an NFS mounted directory that is accessible by HA’s Folder Watcher. When Folder Watcher sees a new *.jpg file showing up in that directory I use an automation trigger based on folder watcher event to fire an action which allows t…

[allan]

Perhaps they mounted the shared volume on the HA node or (not checked this) depending how HA accesses files and folders some methods allow shares to be specified like smb://server/share/file or cifs://server/share/file

I suspect probably the 1st option though.

[JTPublic (JT)]

When I did this, we did not have folder watcher, etc, components
My old set up was:

• ipcam saves regular snapshots, i.e. every 5 seconds
• HA machine had log in script that mounted the share drive from ipcam to a /media folder
• an automation triggered by motion sensor to copy the latest jpg file from the mounted /media folder to a folder under /local/www for archive and use with notify component.

The scripts used were nothing special, just mounting samba share, and copying file from /media to /local/www.
Like I said, it was quite clumsy but that’s before camera.snapshot and watch(er) components.

You may want to follow up with @wmaker on the use case, that’s still better solution if works.

[wmaker (Tommy Long)]

I should clarify one of my statements…the NFS mount was from the viewpoint of the camera;
In other words it was the camera that was mounting a file system from a directory on my Ubuntu system
the same Ubuntu system that was running HA.

[Proxid]

Excuse me guys but I still doesnt understand. Can we access network folders from our home assistant installation(pi running rassbian) or not? It doesn’t matter what components I need to use, or scripts for that matter, I just need it to work somehow.

[JTPublic (JT)]

My experience was I could not access network folders directly with HA, mounted or not.
But a command line or bash script run by HA can access the mounted network file/folder.

[silvrr]

Well if your the admin make sure that HA has permissions to access the folder.

From Linux samba shares are often best accessed for me by using smb://192.168.1.1/folder

[ferraline]

Hi, have the same problem, I can map network drive using terminal but can’t view it in Configurator or find it in installed Plex server. Is there any direct instructions to check permissions?
thanks

[Proxid]

ferraline I never figured it out, so I decided to use “generic camera” instead.