I am new to TrueNAS and looking forward to learning more about it and updating my home automation.
My biggest issue is that I am running Home Assistant on a TrueNAS Scale (24.10.1), and the app installed fine, as far as I can tell. I can access HA through the UI. However, when I try to detect my Lifx or any device, it won’t detect any of my devices on the network.
Not sure what I have done wrong. Is it something to do with the IP address? or is it permissions?
How do I force my HA to have a specific IP address? I have read that this could be the issue. The problem is that I can’t code and don’t know the entries to do it in the shell.
It took me a minute to even understand what your were talking about. HA is usually high availability, not Home Assistant. I would recommend reading up on Home Assistant and check their forums for ideas as it really doesnt have much to do with TrueNAS.
Thanks for the reply and yes I can see what you mean with the way I posted my question about Home Assistance.
I have tried looking up as much detail in the TrueNAS documentation and forums etc but a lot of the post refer to pre 24.1.10 release from at least 12 months ago and don’t apply any more.
I believe what you are describing is mDNS auto-discovery and that is just not supported by the Docker version of Home Assistant used in TrueNAS afaik? Maybe with Host Networking it could work, but I can’t promise anything.
Try assigning a static DHCP lease to your device in the router and entering the IP address you chose for it manually when adding the integration.
In my experience is better to just install full Home Assistant OS in a VM inside TrueNAS and create a bridge network device, I couldn’t get things working fully until I did that; surely there is a way to get everything working using the container version, but I couldn’t figure it out.
