Containerized Home Assistant setup

I recently migrated my Home Assistant setup from running Home Assistant Operating System on a Hardkernel C2 , to running in containers on my NAS The process was reasonably straight-forward, but finding up-to-date documentation and examples online are always a challenge when the platform moves fast My Home Assistant needs are covered by just three services; home-assistant , deconz and node-red . I use deconz because I have a ConBee II as my ZigBee gateway For home-assistant and deconz, the images from docker hub are ready to use. For node-red, some additional packages are required ...

January 30, 2022

WSL2 + podman

UPDATE: podman desktop is now a thing! I had been having some issues with the docker-desktop service on Windows, where it wouldn’t autostart properly and would start into a broken state where nothing worked. These problems, together with the license change of the docker-desktop product and recommendations to give podman a try, led me to try podman instead. About podman podman is a container runtime like docker but designed with a different philosophy. The podman model doesn’t have a main daemon that always needs to run, nor does it require running the containers with root. ...

January 24, 2022