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Installation Assistance #1

Open michae1a1ee opened 8 months ago

michae1a1ee commented 8 months ago

I have a HAOS installation in an Oracle VirtualBox. I do not have Docker yet. Can you provide more detailed instructions to get this X10 plugin working, including what I need to do in order for my HAOS installation to support the docker commands you've specified? I'm totally new to this and any guidance you can provide would be appreciated.

kevineye commented 8 months ago

I admire the HAOS project, but I'm not really all that familiar with it and don't run home assistant that way myself. I also don't use X10 in my HA setup anymore (and thus don't use this container/project anymore), since more reliable devices are so cheap and readily available now.

From what I understand, HAOS runs Home Assistant in a docker container. I guess it would not by default allow you to manage running other containers alongside it, but you can install addons that would let you do that. This thread mentions there is a portainer add on (portainer is a popular web front-end for managing containers) and also you could install an ssh add on to gain underlying access to run docker and whatever other commands you want. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/run-extra-docker-container/321362

The thread also mentions disabling "protected mode" which sounds like something that probably prevents addons from doing system-wide things like running other containers.

So I guess the gist is that since I don't have this heyu container packaged as a HAOS addon, you will need to use another addon that will give you a way to run the docker commands for this container.

michae1a1ee commented 8 months ago

I really appreciate your feedback. I'm still learning as I go and will continue to try to find a way to get my X10 protocol lights working in Home Assistant. I don't know if setting up HAOS in an Oracle VirtualBox was the best option, but it is what I found and could try with my existing hardware when I started trying this out a few weeks ago.

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I admire the HAOS project, but I'm not really all that familiar with it and don't run home assistant that way myself. I also don't use X10 in my HA setup anymore (and thus don't use this container/project anymore), since more reliable devices are so cheap and readily available now.

From what I understand, HAOS runs Home Assistant in a docker container. I guess it would not by default allow you to manage running other containers alongside it, but you can install addons that would let you do that. This thread mentions there is a portainer add on (portainer is a popular web front-end for managing containers) and also you could install an ssh add on to gain underlying access to run docker and whatever other commands you want. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/run-extra-docker-container/321362

The thread also mentions disabling "protected mode" which sounds like something that probably prevents addons from doing system-wide things like running other containers.

So I guess the gist is that since I don't have this heyu container packaged as a HAOS addon, you will need to use another addon that will give you a way to run the docker commands for this container.

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