Home Assistant Supervised on DietPi Topic is solved

[tanderson92]

Has anyone successfully installed the Supervised version of HA on a DietPi install? I didn't want to wipe my Pi and start from scratch, so I followed instructions for installing it on Debian 10 from the HA site https://community.home-assistant.io/t/i ... -debian-10. At the end I have the container running and can see the Observer when I access <myip>:4357, but there's no web interface on :8123. After several people mentioned the incompatibility with HA and Docker v20, I downgraded docker to docker-ce=5:19.03.13~3-0~raspbian-buster. That didn't have an impact on my install. Any suggestions?

[WarHawk]

Have you ever used portainer...a webgui for working with docker images

Might be able to pull up the docker and see if it has a different port aimed at 8123

nice thing is, it allows you to make changes and rebuild the docker image on the fly with minimal issues

https://dbtechreviews.com/2020/08/updat ... uper-easy/

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#Run this command to install Portainer 2.0
docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -p 8000:8000 --name portainer --restart always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce

Digging around also found other howto's
https://peyanski.com/home-assistant-sup ... er-how-to/

This one from dockerhub has over 100 million downloads
https://hub.docker.com/r/homeassistant/home-assistant
here is the howto I finally found from the page above
https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/inst ... erry-pi-os

I can confirm I just installed the docker image on my test Orange Pi PC and it built the container...it DID however take 30-45 min to uncompress all the downloaded images it needed to run!!!! (my OPiPC has a heatsink, active cooling, and cpufrequtils set to performance)

I used this command and it worked flawlessly

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docker run --init -d --name="home-assistant" -e "TZ=America/Chicago" -v /home/warhawk/homeassistant:/config --net=host homeassistant/raspberrypi3-homeassistant:stable

Change your -v directory to one on your machine...

[Joulinar]

Not sure but I guess there is a difference between HA Supervised and HA Core. If I understood correctly, HA Supervised require some software components on the host. I have seem somewhere network manager, which is not used on DietPi.

[WarHawk]

Yup looks like managed might need more stuff running to be managed

https://diyi0t.com/home-assistant-raspb ... ker-setup/

In our case also want to install Mosquitto MQTT boroker, InfluxDB and Grafana but we have to create a new docker container for each of this applications.

[WarHawk]

I did this...still no go

[Joulinar]

what is the difference of the 2 version?

[tanderson92]

Thanks for the insights. I haven't used portainer and am trying to avoid going down any other installation rabbit holes to make this work. I followed the instructions here https://community.home-assistant.io/t/i ... -10/247116 changing "debian" to "raspbian" when it was necessary to force version 19 of Docker. at the end I have a running docker instance and the expected homeassistant containers:

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sudo docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                           COMMAND                  CREATED        STATUS        PORTS                  NAMES
433bcf6a8c6f   homeassistant/armv7-hassio-multicast:3          "/init"                  43 hours ago   Up 43 hours                          hassio_multicast
e2909f90b123   homeassistant/armv7-hassio-cli:2020.11.1        "/init /bin/bash -c …"   43 hours ago   Up 43 hours                          hassio_cli
bfe59806ee08   homeassistant/armv7-hassio-audio:17             "/init"                  43 hours ago   Up 43 hours                          hassio_audio
1e91f0226155   homeassistant/armv7-hassio-dns:2020.11.0        "/init"                  43 hours ago   Up 43 hours                          hassio_dns
884ed2331d1b   homeassistant/armv7-hassio-observer:2020.10.1   "/init"                  3 days ago     Up 43 hours   0.0.0.0:4357->80/tcp   hassio_observer
55322c099bc0   homeassistant/armv7-hassio-supervisor           "/init"                  3 days ago     Up 43 hours                          hassio_supervisor

I can run some "ha" commands from the command line, although I don't really know what I can accomplish from there. The website at port 4357 just shows a page titled "Home Assistant Observer" that reports the Supervisor is running. There's nothing at port 8123. It seems like I need to figure out how to tell docker to make the supervisor available on 8123, but I don't know where to go from here. In the forum I cited above, the answer was to downgrade docker from v20 to v19. When I did that and restarted, there was no change for me. I don't know much about docker and don't know where to look for the configuration file that might tell me how to display the supervisor on port 8123. I found some ha files in /usr/share/hassio, but the "homeassistant" directory there is empty.

I wanted the Supervisor version to take advantage of addons that aren't available in Core, namely the ESP Home addon. I have some generic Tuya bulbs I was planning to flash OTA with ESP Home, and the Home Assistant addon is supposed to make that easy. I really liked HA Core from the few days I used it before deciding to uninstall and move up to Supervised. I was hoping to get this up in time to flash my new generic wifi plug, but since it's to control the Christmas tree I guess I'm going to have to go with the rebranded Tuya app for now.

[Joulinar]

ok I did a test myself with this.

1. running DietPi on RPi3B+ 32bit
2. update DietPi to v6.34 BETA
3. Install Portainer CE + Docker (20.10.1) using dietpi-software
4. install some prerequisite for HA Supervised

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   apt install -y software-properties-common apparmor-utils apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl dbus jq network-manager

5. run the installer

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   cd /tmp/
   curl -Lo installer.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer/master/installer.sh
   chmod +x installer.sh
   bash installer.sh --machine raspberrypi3

6. after installation finished, I was waiting 10-15 minutes as indicated by the installer at the end of the installation process.

This is how it looks like now:

All active and running container (visible in Portainer)

As you can see, non of the container is exposing port 8123. Therefore I checked all LISTEN ports on my system

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root@DietPi3:~# ss -tulpn | grep LISTEN
tcp     LISTEN   0        80             127.0.0.1:3306          0.0.0.0:*       users:(("mysqld",pid=7614,fd=21))
tcp     LISTEN   0        1024             0.0.0.0:80            0.0.0.0:*       users:(("lighttpd",pid=7718,fd=4))
tcp     LISTEN   0        1000             0.0.0.0:22            0.0.0.0:*       users:(("dropbear",pid=409,fd=3))
tcp     LISTEN   0        128              0.0.0.0:8123          0.0.0.0:*       users:(("python3",pid=13952,fd=7))
tcp     LISTEN   0        4096                   *:9002                *:*       users:(("docker-proxy",pid=7982,fd=4))
tcp     LISTEN   0        1024                [::]:80               [::]:*       users:(("lighttpd",pid=7718,fd=5))
tcp     LISTEN   0        1000                [::]:22               [::]:*       users:(("dropbear",pid=409,fd=4))
tcp     LISTEN   0        128                 [::]:8123             [::]:*       users:(("python3",pid=13952,fd=8))
tcp     LISTEN   0        4096                   *:4357                *:*       users:(("docker-proxy",pid=12173,fd=4))
root@DietPi3:~#

There you go. Port 8123 is used/provided by a pythons script and not by a docker container. Let's check it

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root@DietPi3:~# ps -ef | grep 13952
root     13952 13948  1 16:33 ?        00:00:37 python3 -m homeassistant --config /config

So it's a HA process outside docker

The whole stuff seems to be controlled by hassio-supervisor.service

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root@DietPi3:~# systemctl status hassio-supervisor.service
● hassio-supervisor.service - Hass.io supervisor
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/hassio-supervisor.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-12-15 16:27:05 CET; 50min ago
  Process: 9827 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/docker stop hassio_supervisor (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 9838 (bash)
    Tasks: 12 (limit: 2182)
   CGroup: /system.slice/hassio-supervisor.service
           ├─9838 bash /usr/sbin/hassio-supervisor
           └─9883 docker run --name hassio_supervisor --privileged --security-opt apparmor=hassio-supervisor --security-opt seccomp=unconfined -v /run/docker.sock:/run/docker.sock -v /run/dbus:/run/dbus -v /etc/machine-id:/etc/machine-id
:ro -v /usr/share/hassio:/data:rw -e SUPERVISOR_SHARE=/usr/share/hassio -e SUPERVISOR_NAME=hassio_supervisor -e SUPERVISOR_MACHINE=raspberrypi3 homeassistant/armv7-hassio-supervisor

Dec 15 16:34:12 DietPi3 hassio-supervisor[9838]: 20-12-15 15:34:12 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.api] Updated Home Assistant API token
Dec 15 16:34:12 DietPi3 hassio-supervisor[9838]: 20-12-15 15:34:12 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.core] Detect a running Home Assistant instance
Dec 15 16:34:13 DietPi3 hassio-supervisor[9838]: 20-12-15 15:34:13 INFO (SyncWorker_0) [supervisor.docker.interface] Cleanup images: ['homeassistant/armv7-hassio-supervisor:2020.12.6', 'homeassistant/armv7-hassio-supervisor:latest']
Dec 15 16:34:13 DietPi3 hassio-supervisor[9838]: 20-12-15 15:34:13 INFO (SyncWorker_0) [supervisor.docker.interface] Cleanup images: ['homeassistant/armv7-hassio-cli:2020.11.1']
Dec 15 16:34:13 DietPi3 hassio-supervisor[9838]: 20-12-15 15:34:13 INFO (SyncWorker_0) [supervisor.docker.interface] Cleanup images: ['homeassistant/raspberrypi3-homeassistant:landingpage']
Dec 15 16:34:13 DietPi3 hassio-supervisor[9838]: 20-12-15 15:34:13 INFO (SyncWorker_0) [supervisor.docker.interface] Cleanup images: ['homeassistant/armv7-hassio-dns:2020.11.0']
Dec 15 16:34:13 DietPi3 hassio-supervisor[9838]: 20-12-15 15:34:13 INFO (SyncWorker_0) [supervisor.docker.interface] Cleanup images: ['homeassistant/armv7-hassio-observer:2020.10.1']
Dec 15 16:34:13 DietPi3 hassio-supervisor[9838]: 20-12-15 15:34:13 INFO (SyncWorker_0) [supervisor.docker.interface] Cleanup images: ['portainer/portainer-ce:latest']
Dec 15 16:34:13 DietPi3 hassio-supervisor[9838]: 20-12-15 15:34:13 INFO (SyncWorker_0) [supervisor.docker.interface] Cleanup images: ['homeassistant/armv7-hassio-multicast:3']
Dec 15 16:34:13 DietPi3 hassio-supervisor[9838]: 20-12-15 15:34:13 INFO (SyncWorker_0) [supervisor.docker.interface] Cleanup images: ['homeassistant/armv7-hassio-audio:17']
root@DietPi3:~#

And finally I'm able to connect to HA using my IP of the DietPi device at http://192.168.0.12:8123

as well the Supervisor point is visible


Side note: The installation require network-manager which is conflicting as DietPi is using ifupdown. There is a message during installation of the prerequisite pointing to it.

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Setting up network-manager (1.14.6-2+deb10u1) ...

The following network interfaces were found in /etc/network/interfaces
which means they are currently configured by ifupdown:
- eth0
- wlan0
If you want to manage those interfaces with NetworkManager instead
remove their configuration from /etc/network/interfaces.

The HA Supervised installer will modify /etc/network/interfaces as well

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[info] Creating NetworkManager configuration
[warn] Changes are needed to the /etc/network/interfaces file
[info] If you have modified the network on the host manualy, those can now be overwritten
[info] If you do not overwrite this now you need to manually adjust it later
[info] Do you want to proceed with that?

Means, you will loos DietPi functionality to manage your interfaces using dietpi-config. This is a downside of this installer but not something blocking.

[Joulinar]

ok after a reboot the stuff is not working anymore. Looks like a couple of docker images are missing now. Strange


EDIT
OK it's needed to restart the service.

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systemctl restart hassio-supervisor.service

It looks like the missing images get downloaded all the time again. Quite useless to download all the stuff each reboot. Not counting all the r/w operation on the SD card

Question is, why all images getting cleaned

[tanderson92]

I appreciate the detailed walkthrough. I will try to replicate your steps above if I get a chance the next few days. Looks almost foolproof except for the constant container downloading that's happening.

EDIT to add: one difference I noticed was the lack of a "raspberrypi4-homeassistant" container on my system where you have raspberrypi3-homeassistant. That's a clue that not everything was installed and/or running correctly. Any insights on uninstalling all of the containers and starting from scratch? Will portainer help with that?