Home Assistant

Installation on a Synology NAS

The following configuration has been tested on Synology 413j running DSM 6.0-7321 Update 1.

Running these commands will:

Using the Synology webadmin:

  • Install python3 using the Synology package centre
  • Create homeassistant user and add to the “users” group

SSH onto your synology & login as admin or root

Check the path to python3 (assumed to be /volume1/@appstore/py3k/usr/local/bin)

$ cd /volume1/@appstore/py3k/usr/local/bin

Install PIP (Python’s package management system)

$ python -m ensurepip

Use PIP to install Homeassistant package

$ pip3 install homeassistant

Create homeassistant config directory & switch to it

$ mkdir /volume1/homeassistant
$ cd /volume1/homeassistant

Create hass-daemon file using the following code (edit the variables in uppercase if necessary)

#!/bin/sh

# Package
PACKAGE="homeassistant"
DNAME="Home Assistant"

# Others
USER="homeassistant"
PYTHON_DIR="/volume1/@appstore/py3k/usr/local/bin"
PYTHON="$PYTHON_DIR/python3"
HASS="$PYTHON_DIR/hass"
INSTALL_DIR="/volume1/homeassistant"
PID_FILE="$INSTALL_DIR/home-assistant.pid"
FLAGS="-v --config $INSTALL_DIR --pid-file $PID_FILE --daemon"
REDIRECT="> $INSTALL_DIR/home-assistant.log 2>&1"

start_daemon ()
{
    su ${USER} -s /bin/sh -c "$PYTHON $HASS $FLAGS $REDIRECT;"
}

stop_daemon ()
{
    kill `cat ${PID_FILE}`
    wait_for_status 1 20 || kill -9 `cat ${PID_FILE}`
    rm -f ${PID_FILE}
}

daemon_status ()
{
    if [ -f ${PID_FILE} ] && kill -0 `cat ${PID_FILE}` > /dev/null 2>&1; then
        return
    fi
    rm -f ${PID_FILE}
    return 1
}

wait_for_status ()
{
    counter=$2
    while [ ${counter} -gt 0 ]; do
        daemon_status
        [ $? -eq $1 ] && return
        let counter=counter-1
        sleep 1
    done
    return 1
}

case $1 in
    start)
        if daemon_status; then
            echo ${DNAME} is already running
            exit 0
        else
            echo Starting ${DNAME} ...
            start_daemon
            exit $?
        fi
        ;;
    stop)
        if daemon_status; then
            echo Stopping ${DNAME} ...
            stop_daemon
            exit $?
        else
            echo ${DNAME} is not running
            exit 0
        fi
        ;;
        restart)
        if daemon_status; then
            echo Stopping ${DNAME} ...
            stop_daemon
            echo Starting ${DNAME} ...
            start_daemon
            exit $?
        else
            echo ${DNAME} is not running
            echo Starting ${DNAME} ...
            start_daemon
            exit $?
        fi
        ;;
    status)
        if daemon_status; then
            echo ${DNAME} is running
            exit 0
        else
            echo ${DNAME} is not running
            exit 1
        fi
        ;;
    log)
        echo ${LOG_FILE}
        exit 0
        ;;
    *)
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

Create links to python folders to make things easier in the future:

$ ln -s /volume1/@appstore/py3k/usr/local/bin python3
$ ln -s /volume1/@appstore/py3k/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant

Set the owner and permissions on your config folder

$ chown -R homeassistant:users /volume1/homeassistant
$ chmod -R 664 /volume1/homeassistant

Make the daemon file executable:

$ chmod 777 /volume1/homeassistant/hass-daemon

Copy your configuration.yaml file into the config folder
That’s it… you’re all set to go

Here are some useful commands:

  • Start Home Assistant:
$ sh hass-daemon start
  • Stop Home Assistant:
$ sh hass-daemon stop
  • Restart Home Assistant:
$ sh hass-daemon restart
  • Upgrade Home Assistant::
$ python3 -m pip install --upgrade homeassistant

Troubleshooting

If you run into any issues, please see the troubleshooting page. It contains solutions to many of the more commonly encountered issues.

In addition to this site, check out these sources for additional help:

What’s next

If you want to have Home Assistant start on boot, autostart instructions can be found here.

To see what Home Assistant can do, launch demo mode: hass --demo-mode or visit the demo page.

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