I’ve basically given up on this. I’ve spent hours pulling my hair out trying to use mount commands without success. I can see my samba server shows an active connection, but when I create files and folders they don’t show up. Seems like the only way I’ll ever get a frigate server is to buy a separate computer and storage and run it off a docker. It’s quite stupid to think that the frigate HA addon has no decent documentation or guide or anything for mounting a network share. You’d think that would be a basic function of HAOS, I guess we should be appreciative that we even have HA to being with.
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Join the club!
I’m a little surprised you are having so much trouble. I recommend you just give it a break and come back to this in a week or so. Some systems are a little finicky I suppose.
It wasn’t any easier the second or third time I approached it. Is anyone actually capable of mounting a share to a remote file system on Hassio/haos or whatever it’s called.
Joining the crowd in here. While on paper my NFS mounts should work this way too, I’ve not been successful yet and pretty much have given up on all things media-related within HA. They work everywhere else though, so, eh.
I do think it’s far too tedious to have to set this up manually, too. I do have an integration with my NAS (since it is running OpenMediaVault), but said integration fails often and, anyway, doesn’t provide a media source. Nor would the TrueNAS integration, if I were to eventually move my NAS setup there.
This is, how it works for me, using OMV NAS.
Yeah, but that’s SMB. I don’t want SMB on my network.
Nice to see this is still going on.
I tried to do this years ago on HassOS/haos with NFS but there was no kernel support, I tired messing round with udev but it loads too fast so I ended up using CIFS.
Not sure why some people can’t get it going it’s a easy process.
I’ve been doing this for a year or so… It’s pretty much the same as the same as sean’s method but I do use a manual process each time HAOS(not HA) reboots.
I have multiple isolated networks running HA for dev, testing and prod.
For my production HA environment at home I only update it on the last update of every month which means a HAOS restart. I don’t care doing this process once a month manually.
Process is ensure frigate, terminal addon(not 22222 addon) are set to manual start. When HAOS boots up after a cold start:
- Login to to container at port 22222
- run bash script in /mnt/data/
- type: bash /mnt/data/cifs_mount.sh
Here’s the script:
#!/bin/bash
#for x in $(docker ps --format "table {{.ID}}\t {{.Names}}" | grep -E "ssh|frigate" | awk '{ print $1 }'); do
mount -t cifs -o username=user,domain=dom,password=pass //1.1.1.1/NVR_Storage /mnt/data/supervisor/media
if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
df -h | grep media
#CIFSCONTAINERS="hassio_cli addon_ccab4aaf_frigate addon_core_ssh homeassistant"
CIFSCONTAINERS="homeassistant"
for x in $CIFSCONTAINERS ; do
docker restart $x
done
else
echo "Error mounting NVR mount"
fi
You can uncomment the $CIFSCONTAINERS to include the container you want to autostart with the script or use the commented for loop to get container IDs.
Otherwise go back to HA UI and manually start the addons that you’ve configured to use /media
Does that help?
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I have tried multiple methods to mount a CIFS share and none have worked. When will devs realise the importance of this for so many uses and users?
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They KNOW there’s plenty of us wanting it.
They just seem to NOT want it. Or something. Who knows?
I don’t think it’s anything malicious, or even intentional. If you’ve set up a development environment for HA, you don’t need this feature. You’ve probably got a dozen other ways to do this. It’s simply not a priority.
It’s hard to motivate someone to volunteer their time to work on something for which they simply don’t see the need. Again, nothing against any HA devs. It’s just the way open source works. We users just hope someone comes along who takes pride in developing a system that works for everyone, even those who don’t live and breathe this stuff daily.
Que? How, please?
I honestly don’t recall. Every time I read someone explaining how easy it was for them, I give up about three words in. My HA environment just isn’t that complex.
I chose HA because it was billed as a product which runs on a standalone, simple hardware platform like the RPi. Apparently that’s not how most of the “power users” run it. I spent a career maintaining server farms. I don’t need to do that in my retirement. If it’s not part of the HA OS and HA Core package, I’m not going there. I want to have a life outside of supporting HA.
This is being worked on, they hinted at it in the forum post for the HA OS 10.0 blog
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That would be great! I thought I saw something which hinted at this, but I didn’t dare hope. 
You can mount smb or nfs.
If you cant get udev to work via USB. put it in manually. If you say you don’t want to, you’re probably afraid of CLI terminals.
It’s seriously not that hard, you’re just afraid of linux and want to push a button.
It is, but its not in the gui. A life outside of supporting HA… literally set it up and forget about it. Not sure what you’re going on about supporting. You set it up and you’re done. Take the 5 minutes to go plug a monitor and keyboard into yiur ha instance or use the ssh 22222 add-on configurator from Adam Outlier, and put the mount rule in place and never look at it again.
Not the first when using a VM and tried the second which did not work.
using a VM… attatch the storage to the machine with your hypervisor. then its standard linux mounting
using docker, map it with your docker compose. then its standard linux mounting
using ha os plug in your usb or sata, then its standard linux mounting
for cifs & nfs, its standard linux mounting for all those options
if you want to mount anything, go to terminal.
the limitation is you have to mount to a directory under one of the paths that ha core maps in its container. ie /config /share or /media
Wow, that sounds fantastic! Is that in HAOS 10.2? Can’t wait to see it.