I cannot get either of these apps to “see” my network. I read in another thread that Home Assistant strongly advises that it be run in a VM on Truenas. That seems odd to me since it is offered as an app. What is the point of having an app if it won’t work. Is there a fix for these apps?
Thanks,
Andrew
Running in a VM is less efficient with system resources like RAM and disk usage. Although I run Home Assistant as a VM myself. Running it as a VM lets you more easily access the library of “Add-ons” that HA offers which as I understand are largely special docker containers.
I’ve had an issue with ESPHome Builder, where I can build and flash USB devices, but can’t do anything via the network since the discovery port 5353 is already in use by another process. I’m hoping I can work around the issue instead of building another VM.
It works fine if you don’t need mDNS, for that you need Host-Networking or something like a custom MACVLAN, I’m running the app with all my things being detected, it’s a standard Docker container, and even the OS is a Debian + Home-Assistant docker container wrapped in one, just as a VM it doesn’t fight with the host for ports and etc
