Home Assistant

Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

Registry	ghcr.io/daemonless/home-assistant
Source	https://github.com/daemonless/home-assistant
Website	https://www.home-assistant.io/

Version Tags

Tag	Description	Best For
latest	Upstream Binary. Built from official release.	Most users. Matches Linux Docker behavior.

Prerequisites

Before deploying, ensure your host environment is ready. See the Quick Start Guide for host setup instructions.

Deployment

Podman Compose

services:
  home-assistant:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/home-assistant:latest"
    container_name: home-assistant
    environment:
      - PUID=1000  # User ID for the application process
      - PGID=1000  # Group ID for the application process
      - TZ=UTC  # Timezone for the container
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/home-assistant:/config"
    annotations:
      org.freebsd.jail.allow.raw_sockets: "true"
    restart: unless-stopped

AppJail Director

.env:

# .env

DIRECTOR_PROJECT=home-assistant
PUID=1000
PGID=1000
TZ=UTC

appjail-director.yml:

# appjail-director.yml

options:
  - alias:
  - ip4_inherit:
services:
  home-assistant:
    name: home_assistant
    options:
      - container: 'boot args:--pull'
    oci:
      user: root
      environment:
        - PUID: !ENV '${PUID}'
        - PGID: !ENV '${PGID}'
        - TZ: !ENV '${TZ}'
    volumes:
      - home-assistant: /config
volumes:
  home-assistant:
    device: '/path/to/containers/home-assistant'

Makejail:

# Makejail

ARG tag=latest

OPTION overwrite=force
OPTION from=ghcr.io/daemonless/home-assistant:${tag}
SET allow.raw_sockets=1

Podman CLI

podman run -d --name home-assistant \
  --annotation 'org.freebsd.jail.allow.raw_sockets=true' \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -v /path/to/containers/home-assistant:/config \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/home-assistant:latest

AppJail

appjail oci run -Pd \
  -o overwrite=force \
  -o container="args:--pull" \
  -o virtualnet=":<random> default" \
  -o nat \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -o fstab="/path/to/containers/home-assistant /config <pseudofs>" \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/home-assistant:latest home-assistant

Ansible

- name: Deploy home-assistant
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: home-assistant
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/home-assistant:latest"
    state: started
    restart_policy: always
    env:
      PUID: "1000"
      PGID: "1000"
      TZ: "UTC"
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/home-assistant:/config"
    annotation:
      org.freebsd.jail.allow.raw_sockets: "true"

Parameters

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
PUID	1000	User ID for the application process
PGID	1000	Group ID for the application process
TZ	UTC	Timezone for the container

Volumes

Path	Description
/config	Configuration directory

Architectures: amd64 User: bsd (UID/GID via PUID/PGID, defaults to 1000:1000) Base: FreeBSD 15.1-latest

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