(Weds 7th July 2026)
To get HACS installed I followed the instructions at:
https://lazyadmin.nl/smart-home/install-hacs-home-assistan/
But HA couldn't see it to add. So I decided to launch HA using composer on my laptop rather that the CLI "docker run" command.
But first I will relearn docker CLI by watching this video..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQdB7wFEygo&t=48s
Gave up and used the CLI to restart HA..
i Info → U In Use
IMAGE ID DISK USAGE CONTENT SIZE EXTRA
dockurr/windows:latest 70a979906f6a 428MB 0B
ghcr.io/esphome/esphome:latest 1973bed8914f 739MB 0B
ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable ceb81d836a0b 2.36GB 0B U
hello-world:latest 1b44b5a3e06a 10.1kB 0B U
(base) coderdojo@rhubarb:~/HomeAssistant$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
34693f51fada ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable "/init" 10 hours ago Up 10 hours homeassistant
(base) coderdojo@rhubarb:~/HomeAssistant$
(base) coderdojo@rhubarb:~/HomeAssistant$ docker restart 34693f51fada
34693f51fada
(base) coderdojo@rhubarb:~/HomeAssistant$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
34693f51fada ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable "/init" 10 hours ago Up 3 seconds homeassistant
(base) coderdojo@rhubarb:~/HomeAssistant$
So next to see if it can see HACS now.. Nope!
Lets go through these steps..
https://www.simplysmart.house/blog/how-to-install-HACS-on-home-assistant-Docker
That worked when I followed the instructions to a tee include Github sign on :)
Now to add some HACS stuff! Such as "local tuya"
But cannot access https://github.com/codetheweb/tuyapi/blob/master/docs/SETUP.md
page at present! Huh?
(Tues 7th July 2026)
I tried on a Raspberry Pi first after being excited by watching this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhJIycywIA0&t=133s
but it failed to find an image for that architecture:
pi@tarbh:~/HomeAssistant $ cat compose.yaml
version: '3'
services:
homeassistant:
container_name: homeassistant
image: ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable
volumes:
- /home/pi/homeassistant:/config
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ie
- /run/dbus:/run/dbus:ro
restart: unless-stopped
privileged: true
network_mode: host
pi@tarbh:~/HomeAssistant $ ls
compose.yaml
pi@tarbh:~/HomeAssistant $ docker compose up -d
WARN[0000] /home/pi/HomeAssistant/compose.yaml: the attribute `version` is obsolete, it will be ignored, please remove it to avoid potential confusion
[+] up 0/1
⠇ Image ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable Pulling 1.9s
no matching manifest for linux/arm/v8 in the manifest list entries
pi@tarbh:~/HomeAssistant $
So next I thought I'd try it on my Linux Mint Laptop..
(base) coderdojo@rhubarb:~/HomeAssistant$ docker run -d --name homeassistant --privileged --restart=unless-stopped -e TZ=Europe/Dublin -v /home/coderdojo/HomeAssistant:/config -v /run/dbus:/run/dbus:ro --network=host ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable
Unable to find image 'ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable' locally
stable: Pulling from home-assistant/home-assistant
c5cfc437e4cd: Pull complete
a0599c81070e: Pull complete
37f806cc4461: Pull complete
..
f1ad270565d0: Pull complete
9a5335991821: Pull complete
5835c1c32669: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:f73512ba4fe06bb4d57636fe3578d0820cdec46f81e8f837ab59e451662ff3cb
Status: Downloaded newer image for ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable
34693f51fadad4a6fdc67679ec42cc12cd4da6c8ff024ab25536811e97b6d6e2
(base) coderdojo@rhubarb:~/HomeAssistant$
So success! It did take an age on onboard after I created a user account at localhost:8123 and eventually hanged.
But eventually I could login in and access at in another tab at: http://192.168.1.193:8123 event while the first tab was hung :)
Here's how it looks now..
So next to get HACS on it.
