Home Assistant

Home Assistant on FreeBSD.

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
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=UTC
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/home-assistant:/config"
    restart: unless-stopped

AppJail Director

.env:

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

appjail-director.yml:

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

Makejail:

ARG tag=latest

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

Podman CLI

podman run -d --name home-assistant \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -v /path/to/containers/home-assistant:/config \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/home-assistant:latest

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"

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 15.0

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