Dan Langille

Are you running #HomeAssistant under #bhyve on #FreeBSD?

I've managed to get HA working, but not functional, via https://blog.david-reid.com/home-assistant-on-freebsd/

I have my GreenEye Monitor (GEM) sending my electricity consumption to it. Good.

I can add Integrations (e.g Pushover) but I can't get notifications working. Bad.

I can add InfluxDB but I can't get any data into it. Bad.

All this seems way harder than it should be which makes me think I'm doing it wrong. Very bad.

How did you do it?

Home Assistant on FreeBSD

After working for a couple of months the SD card in the HomeAssistant [https://www.home-assistant.io/] RaspberryPi [https://www.raspberrypi.org/] died. Annoying. Of course without a suitable replacement how do we get the HA working again? We have a small server in the house that runs FreeBSD so

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Show threadBert JW Regeer 🏳️‍🌈Nov 27, 2022

@dvl have you made sure that the basics are working:

- networking is fully functional/it has IP's/routes/ipv4/ipv6 whatever?
- No firewalls on the host/those are configured correctly for use cases?

I used to have HASS running on FreeBSD directly a long time ago. I am about to try and deploy it on FreeBSD Bhyve using that same guide.

Show threadDan LangilleNov 27, 2022

@bertjwregeer

- networking must be functional because new integrations can be added, nslookup works as expected, dhcpd assigns the expected address to bhyve.

- yes, there is a firewall and I am monitoring blocked traffic and adjusting rules as needed

Show threadBert JW Regeer 🏳️‍🌈Nov 27, 2022

@dvl I was pretty sure I was asking stupid questions, but you need know.

I have no idea, I'll let you know how things go for me in the near future.

Show threadDan LangilleNov 27, 2022
@bertjwregeer Those were not stupid questions and should always be asked in such situations. :)
Show threadEvaldas AurylaNov 27, 2022
@dvl yes, running #HomeAssistant here in #FreeBSD jail, installed few years ago, with #mqtt and #mysensors integrations. It's kinda getting old now, I will be upgrading HA to a more recent version before end of year.
Show threadDan LangilleNov 27, 2022
@redcepelin are you using influxdb? If so, please paste that past your configuration.yaml file.
Show threadEvaldas AurylaNov 27, 2022
@dvl I did, then stopped some years ago, HA was too noisy, the conf part in HA version 0.110 that is now commented:

#influxdb:
# host: 192.168.12.14
# port: 8086
# database: home_assistant
# username: hass
# password: pass
# tags_attributes: friendly_name
Show threadDan LangilleNov 27, 2022
@redcepelin I got it working this morning. The user did not have full permissions.