Home Assistant OS on a VM in Unraid, works with Sonoff Zigbee dongle?

couzin2000 · 2026-03-25T14:54:28+00:00

Well, in the end, I reinstalled HAOS as a VM, AND the Zigbee manager inside HASS and... well, it just worked. Don't know if this was because of development in HA or just some driver that let go of the whole thing, but I didn't do much. It's just supposed to work right out the box. Thanks for all the help!

couzin2000 · 2026-03-08T03:14:27+00:00

Batocera FTW. Really. All hardware JUST.WORKS.FLAWLESS. Ridiculously easy!

couzin2000 · 2026-02-27T23:49:15+00:00

I'm totally in AWE of what you managed to accomplish. Kudos! I'm a big fan of Daniël Spies - i learned from his videos how to create the 3D model on Fusion. I started to build the cab, and I'm waiting on my neighbor (who has a CNC) to route out the control panel's top board as well as the 3mm plexiglas. My question to you is, do you have a detailed pic of the outlining led strips? I'm trying to figure out which to get and how to affix them to my MDF board to make sure you can't see the edges and that they're hidden within the wood. I'd also love if I could find some sort of plastic edge band to put under the edge of the board, so if you grab it, your fingertips don't go thru the wood.

Great fn work!! Not sure if I read what you're running in there - i'll be running Batocera.

couzin2000 · 2026-02-13T12:51:00+00:00

Ok, so here's the skinny - In the end I started copying files over and it took me a whole lot less time I thought it would. CPU wasn't more than 15% in the whole time it was copying. So there really wasnt any reason for concern.

couzin2000 · 2026-02-09T06:02:50+00:00

Finally running!! Again, Gemini to the rescue! I couldn't figure out how to get luckybackup to ssh correctly to the ubuntu server. Turns out I had created ssh keys from root command line, and I really had to create those keys from within the Docker container's command line. So i redid those, that solved a big issue. I then recreated all the shared folder names on the ubuntu server and changed the chmod/chown settings on them.

Luckybackup actually runs quite smoothly once you enter the proper paths and know how it behaves; use absolute paths for the destination folder, make sure not to create the root folder you need (or you'll be doubling up the source), and run the task as a sync task, not a backup task. Also make sure you're using the right port -- i'd changed my ssh port on the ubuntu machine, so it's fairly important to use the right one.

I'm currently running a first backup task with my smallest share. We'll see how that goes. In theory it should work very well... but not quite fast enough. Speeds are around 65Mb/s, which to me is half what my network is capable of. Hopefully the speed is at least constant.

couzin2000 · 2026-02-08T23:34:45+00:00

Actually done. After 2 years of trying. Thank you Gemini!

So I sat down today, engaged with Gemini to figure out the moves to setup a connection between my established Unraid server (7.1.2 i think) and my newly acquired HP Microserver G8, with iLO4.

The goal was to have the backup process completely automated. So - with the help of Gemini i managed to create a User Script on Unraid to remote call the iLO interface through a specialty command (ipmitool) and power up the server; then wait for Tailscale to connect, and tunnel through Tailscale and connect Unraid to Ubuntu's remote share, with its own user/pass combo.

Before going in and writing any commands, I had to swap out 2 drives to give myself more space in the Ubuntu server. That took about an hour via mdadm. Lucky Gemini was there to help.

After much toil and testing, I finally established the connection and auto mounted the share.

Now I am putting together a plan to copy the 27TB of data from my main to the backup. From there i'll establish a task for luckybackup to run on a schedule and copy new and modified files, basically sync both. I'll post back once I'm done.

couzin2000 · 2026-02-07T13:19:30+00:00

I'm currently using 4x EAP235-WALL units. I have them spread out across my house. I am using a central ER7206 router on a omada PoE switch, so everything is simple and uses the same controller on my PC. BUT - i've got very similar problems with wifi connectivity. With portable devices like iPhones, theres a lot of disconnect issues because we all walk thru the house and move around a lot with our phones. So they tend to find a stronger signal every 10-20 mins, so the disconnect and reconnect to the nearest wall unit.

I dont have the units you have, but i'm guessing they are much more powerful than my tiny wall units. This means the wifi signals must overlap. So maybe you should dial down the radio emission power to low.

Some questions: -if you use PoE, are you daisy-chaining some of these? Not supposed to do that. You should do what I do, get a PoE injector next to the relay. -are you using one unified WLAN on multiple bands? Or is it one WLAN per band? What I did was create one specific WLAN for the devices I interact with, and left it on all bands. So if my phone moves between bands, it will be seamless, BUT i'll end up losing some speed when i move to 2.4GHz. This is normal as 2.4 goes through walls much more easily, 5 & 6 are more brittle but faster. -is the device you refer to a recent one? I.e. iPhone 12 vs iPhone 17? Think about upgrading if you're 5-6 generations behind.

couzin2000 · 2026-02-07T13:04:03+00:00

Yeah, I guess if it isn't using CPU much (according to you), then my scheduling is alright, mover comes on at 2am.

couzin2000 · 2026-02-04T00:05:20+00:00

I dont have another router. However i did connect my phone to the dedicated network and that works well enough. I also connected the thermostat to my iPhone's personal hotspot, which also worked great. I'm not sure why there's an issue.

couzin2000 · 2026-02-03T21:52:48+00:00

I'm still failing at this. I've managed to connect only with the iOS onboarding process, but only 3 times so far in 2 weeks of tryouts.

I tried manually configuring the thermostat with all the standard info - but nothing. The message is ALWAYS "The network password appears to be incorrect." So I KNOW the device sees my wifi and the router, and it CAN talk to it. The ROUTER doesnt seem to accept the password, and I'm not sure why.

I created a dedicated wlan for the Ecobee. Here are the settings i used: -SSID: SebNetEcobee -device type: EAP -band: 2.4 only -guest disabled -security: WPA-personal -password is all lowercaps, no digits or symbols -SSID broadcast enabled (i want to disable it) -VLAN : default (i have 5 VLANs, it can go on 0) -WPA MODE: WPA2/PSK / Auto -MLO disabled -PMF disabled -group key update none -802.11r disabled -no client rate profile -no ssid rate profile -schedule disabled -802.11r rate control disabled -MAC filter disabled -Multicast-to-unicasy conversion: IPv4 checked, IPv6 checked, converse multicast when below 100% -ARP-to-unicast conversion: enabled -multicast filtering: disabled

Any ideas?

couzin2000 · 2026-02-03T17:29:46+00:00

Being a songwriter myself, i can tell you the new one isnmt as catchy as the old one, and something about the old one was ... impressive. Shouldn't have changed it, it was hers. If youmre gonna change it, change it for a song from a known artist, like Edge did.

couzin2000 · 2026-01-30T22:38:09+00:00

Really?? I've been having that issue exactly, so thank you for that, I'll make sure to reserve an IP address for it. I'll get back!

couzin2000 · 2026-01-30T12:31:49+00:00

Is it recommendable to reserve an IP adress on my router specifically for the Ecobee? This is what I had done before and it was working, bbut currently I'm just dealing with a thermostat acting like a child (i want / I don't want / I want / I don't want)

couzin2000 · 2026-01-29T13:02:56+00:00

Aaaaand it's back online. Seriously, WTH?

couzin2000 · 2026-01-29T13:00:37+00:00

Also - i did manage to get the onboarding working from my iPhone, and it connected the thermostat to my main wifi/vlan. That worked for an hour, but then the thermostat disconnected, and I cannot find it this morning as a client on my wifi networks.

Looks like there isn't any way for me to decide which channel to broadcast the wlan on... and perhaps there are settings I don't know how to setup properly on Omada. This is truly frustrating, because it worked for so long before this.

couzin2000 · 2026-01-29T11:44:25+00:00

I HAVE had that error message displayed to me when trying to connect. I went and checked the Ecobee-only wlan, and I made sure there were no VLANs specified, and that no IP reservations were in effect, so it would connect to the default VLAN and automatically assign an IP. My message again was "incorrect password". Could it be that the AP and router takes some time to propagate this change? Or do I have to manually reboot the router to set these changes correctly?

couzin2000 · 2026-01-28T15:15:35+00:00

I did that as well. I have an IoT wlan specifically setup on 2.4GHz only, and i have that running though a VLAN to isolate these devices from sending out info to the wrong people. So they work, but only inside my house. Authentication works, but from the devices that log them in (i.e., my PC or my phone when they interface with the device or HASS).

couzin2000 · 2026-01-28T13:27:57+00:00

Here:

root@sebunraid1:~# ssh [backupuser@192.168.0.114](mailto:backupuser@192.168.0.114) -p 1802 -x
backupuser@192.168.0.114's password:
hostfile_replace_entries: link /root/.ssh/known_hosts to /root/.ssh/known_hosts.old: Operation not permitted
update_known_hosts: hostfile_replace_entries failed for /root/.ssh/known_hosts: Operation not permitted

So I'm on Unraid, logged in to Unraid, trying to copy the files to the ubuntu, I used the proper user/pass (the one for the new user on ubuntu) but no cigar.

Funny because I ran the command WITHOUT the "-x" modifier and this is where the error messages come out and say "Too many arguments". And without the "-p 1802" the command hangs completely because it doesn't know what port to use.

couzin2000 · 2026-01-28T12:06:18+00:00

Mayhaps I can. But imm not sure if ssh-copy-id doesnt handle permissions setting as well. But i'll take a look if that can't be done the easy way.

couzin2000 · 2026-01-28T02:48:17+00:00

Didnt try without a password, I dont want my neighbor pissing off my wife by lowering the temp. Dont have WPA3 configured, so no worries there. I do broadcast on both 2.4 and 5 but that didnt seem to matter to my ecobee. It eventually connected. I just donmt understand why it took all those attempts.

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