Raspberry Pi 4 Home Automation Server with IOTStack
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We will install IOTStack and Webmin on a raspberry Pi4. IOTStack is a complete collection of famous home automation software such as Home Assistant, Openhab, Node Red and many others. With this you can run your home automation software in docker on a pi.
0:00 Use a Pi as Home Automation Server
0:38 Intro jingle
0:48 TLDR/TLDW
1:01 description of IOTStack
2:06 Get IOTStack and Install Docker on the Pi
3:33 Installing IOTStack on the Pi
5:22 Installing Webmin
7:30 Call to Action
the commands used in this video
To download, install and start IOTStack:
sudo apt install -y git curl
git clone github .com/SensorsIot/IOTstack.git IOTstack
please remove the space before the dot com
cd IOTstack/
./menu.sh
sudo raspi-config
locale
sudo reboot
cd IOTstack/
./menu.sh
docker-compose up -d
To install webmin:
wget prdownloads.sourceforge .net/webadmin/webmin_1.962_all.deb
please remove the space before the dot net
clear
sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.962_all.deb
sudo apt -f install
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All my pi's are currently unused. Mostly due to my lack of knowledge and frustration on what projects use them for. I really enjoy the level of detail you add to your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Thanks Marc - just what I need. I have started a project for home automation etc., but lack of knowledge has been a stumbling block.
Simply brilliant !!!!!!! I am your biggest fan...
Thank you so much 😀
Hey Marc, another great video and thank you! Yes I use Pi's ...4 in a cluster currently collecting dust and soon another for a Home Assistant interface by the front door. All future plans ... based on time/work/construction going on here :)
Hi, many thanks for your feedback - yea, time is the big issue - I know exactly what you're talking about! I have that list of roughly 30-40 videos which I still want to make - and each time I talk with people the list gets longer !!!
I use a PI4 for Home Assistant and a Pi3 used to be used as a DLNA server but I have been using it now to explore some of the techniques you teach. I installed Docker, Portainer and Webmin on it. I got some error when I installed Webmin but after rebooting it seems to work fine. I then used it to update itself and again I got an error but it still seems to work fine. I want to thank you for all of your videos. They are very well done and are a very valuable asset.
Hi David, many thanks for your kind feedback !
I really appreciate your videos. Your information is detailed and well paced and has proven very helpful. I usa a Pi for Homebridge, OpenMediaVault, Docker, NGinX, and Transmission-OpenVPN. It works great and I am thinking about adding another one to run a VPN Proxy. Thanks again!
Many thanks for your friendly feedback! Glad you like the videos!
Thanks for the video, super informative helped a lot!
Awesome, many thanks - glad it helped ;-)
Hi Marc.
Thank you for your videos, they’re great!
I’m currently using my Pi as a Plex server and WireGuard vpn (installed using Pivpn).
I use to run pihole on it but that has been substituted by an adblocker running on my Openwrt router.
I am planning to use the Openwrt router as a WireGuard server as well and free up the Pi for other tasks.
Still learning and loving it.
Perfect, many thanks for your feedback!
Great video..I am using pi4 and 3 .....with home assistant and node red and tasmota as well as esphome
Hi Vijay, many thanks for your feedback
sweet, I didnt need the iotstack, as i tried it earlier and I decided I prefer to run all those things as addons in Homeassistant rather than their own docker install.. homeassistant addons are docker containers anyhow but nicely integrated. But Webmin is a great addition I wasnt aware off :) Thank you!
Hi, many thanks for the feedback ;-) Yes, I love to have some kind of Web GUI to that type of project. Be it Portainer or Webmin or....
Best Tutorial on the web. Realy.
Wow - thank you very much !
Thanks for this great video!
You're welcome ;-) th-cam.com/channels/G5Ph9Mm6UEQLJJ-kGIC2AQ.html
Gracias, exelentes videos tienes. saludos de chile
¡Súper gracias!
Thank you for informative videos. I use a pi zero W running node red and mosquito to control and monitor my boat power systems as I live off grid. It looks after the battery and charging systems including solar and a hybrid lead / lithium. It controls excess power dumping to hot water / fridge etc. lighting control, fridge control, environmental monitoring etc. it does it all wirelessly using esp8266 units sprinkled about running mostly esp-easy. I use another Zero W as my radio linked via Bluetooth to my speakers. I have a pi3 running openwrt with various packages that holds it all together and connects to the interweb via a gsm USB modem.
Nice setup - I like it ;-) Many thanks for sharing !
I have a rasberry pi used for development /experimenting and a RPi clone (orange pi ) used to control my garden irrigation system with a basic software that I have wrote by myself (in c ).
Hi Albert, many thanks for the feedback
Yes, I am using RPis: #1: running Home Assistant directly on the hardware (no containers - with MQTT and Zigbee2mqtt). #2: OpenWRT experimentation #3: Monitoring 250HP electric motors in another state in the US (Telegraf, Influxdb, Grafana, MQTT, etc)
I have a few rPis around. I have one project that answers the question "How do you manage your devices when your Internet connection is down?" Happy to discuss it.
Sure go ahead - alternatively you may contact me on facebook, reddit or discord
Your helpful videos has inspired me to order my first Raspberry Pi.
Great to hear! Many thanks - let us know how it goes and if it meets your expectations !
Yes, I do use R-Pis: 1) 1 pc. Home Assistant, 2) 1 pc. LoRa Gateway, 3) 1 pc. VMware ESXi (Fling), 4) 1 pc. All purpose server, 5) 1 pc. Spare. But I'm moving more into VM in Proxmox... there I have many emulated "R-Pis".
Hi OneMarc. great tutorial . What RAM size do you think is the least necessary for this build , or similar buil in small server? the raspberry comes in different RAM sizes. It looks like 1GB (raspberry 3) is not enough. and the model 4 has many different ram options.
Thank you it is help me alot
Hi, many thanks - glad it helped !
Thanks for suggesting webmin. Gonna install soon. Had a Pi4 with Hassio and a Pi3 with Pihole but latter reduced network speed to 100Mbs. Fiber to the home is arriving soon. Therefore I just reinstalled the IOTstack on the 4GB Pi4 with 250GB SSD. Should become a Home server with all gadgets and graphic tools. For some reason some containers won't show, although Portainer shows them as running: work to do! I also have a Homey to run most lights and socket .
Hi Thieu, many thanks for your feedback and sharing!
Actually, I don't have any rpi. I gave it to a friend last year. However, like to see this kind of videos, like you do, quickly and clearly
Thank you!
Excellent video as always! Please make follow up videos using some of the IOTStack elements that you think will be useful :-) I currently use Node Red to control all my devices (sonoffs, light bulbs etc loaded with Tasmota) via MQTT. I trigger my automation in Node Red from Amazon Alexa. Also how do you make those animated "network diagrams" in your videos? I sometimes present information on "Antique Telephones" to member of the "Telephone Heritage" community however at the moment I use PowerPoint which is a bit limited.
Hi, many thanks for your feedback! I will definitely follow up - I have plans on Home Assistant, Dashboards etc. The software that I am using is called VideoScribe. It's a subscription model though, roughly 10 to 15 EUR/month on a prepaid plan...
very nice .
Thanks a lot
Bless you one day you will be a successful person
Thank you - are you actually using a raspberry Pi 4 ?
Beeing a newbie on home automation, a stick to home kit by apple... would love to learn how to add/manage different automations.
Thank you for your videos
Sounds great! It's noted ;-)
Hey Marc. Just watched 2 of your videos. Great work and thank you for your instructions. I am "using" a Pi to drain hydro right now. I would like to use it for a home network (dhcp, AD DC type of thing) Do you have a video on this? I use a bunch of google speakers and various lights, smart Garage door and Arlo cameras. I am not sure if these can be used in home automation but would like to hear your opinions on this. Thanks again!
Hi Eric, I don't really have a video for Active Directory / LDAP etc. If you want to chose specific hardware with a home automation software you have basically two possibilities. Either you teach the devices to use a middleware (such as MQTT) or you would need to check if there is an agent / integration for the specific product.
Thanks Marc. I did my original install on a pi4 using this procedure when the man with the Swiss accent put it on line. I have just used you instruction to load the same system onto a mini pc running Linux mint had to remove a few things from the compleated docker-compose file that are pi specific. But now all up and running . This is all used to control home automation. Solar / battery inverters heating and heat pumps etc my flows are getting a bit big. In node red that I use so want to see if a diferant platform helps . Might help other to point out that on node red ports. That you may need to open other ports I have a 8888 UDP port open and also Alexa. Needs 3458. Open to register back to Amazon some times .
Hi, many thanks for the feedback and for sharing.
Yea ... IOTstack is a fantastic project. I am in the process of setting up a server running Proxmox to run among things my home automation on Debian..Its a bit faster.
Many thanks for sharing ;-)
Thank you for this video and for your time. I've tried about 1 year ago to set-up IoTstack in my rPI4B but I can't remember why I didn't achieve it. Yesterday I've started again this attempt. I have 2-3 rPIs that sit in my drawer and it's a pity...
...like so many of us still have them sitting in a drawer collecting dust ;-)
Hi Mark, thank you for the informative video. I am also using pi 4 for dust collection on my drawer. I was running smartthings and upgrade it with this project. Thanks in advance for the support.
Awesome - many thanks for the feedback !
thanks a lot
You're welcome - thanks for watching ;-)
Thanks for the video. I use a RPI4 with IOTstack. I mainly use node-red, mqtt and zigbee2mqtt. I am currently trying to work out how use the backup facility in IOTstack. By the way the menu has been updated.
Hi Brian, many thanks for the feedback - yes I realized the menu had been updated just a few days after I published - Doh ;-) If ever anybody wants the old menu, you can still check out the old menu branch by typing git checkout -b old-menu https...
Using home assistant but not on a pi but a nuc and a pc. Pi in the draw but want to use them for presence detection, and have ordered a pi4 for an 8mm film conversion project. Thanks for the video will look at it closer
Thanks for sharing! How would you go ahead for presence detection ? Would you detect network devices such as phones or maybe bluetooth or rather face recognition with a camera ?
I think Bluetooth as WiFi can be slow to show up, I'm not a fan for having cameras in the house ☺
Hi Mark; thank you for this tutorial... concerning pi i am using it right now as 4k player using kodi+elementum. Originally i bought it for home assistant, but i am too lazy and my aqara smart home sensors/ hub dosnt want to work/connect properly with conbee 2.
Hi Matej, many thanks for the feedback and sharing
Using the Pi for pi-hole. Not on a docker. I maybe experiment a little further or get another Pi. For automation at home, I’ve been using ifttt. Will have to investigate if there is possible to have some stuff working on any of those tools.
Thanks a lot for sharing Carlos !
Great video, I followed your instructions this evening 👍
Q: Will you be doing a follow up video on using the automation software?
Danke aus Irland ☘️
Go raibh míle maith agat, Paul! I will do that, but it will take a couple of weeks...
@@OneMarcFifty ❤️👍
we are using dynalite lighting automation for our lights, and yes i am using raspberry pi 3 for home automations.
Hi Kenn, many thanks for the feedback!
I wonder how things can easily be backed up and restored if things breaks. E.g. on USB drives or in cloud drives. As I’m basically a Windows guy, I have some problems with system tasks like that. Played around a lot with PIs but when I screwed them up, I got bored starting over again...
Thanks for your great contents!
Thank you very much - Backup on Linux can be done with tar or rsync. Not a real incremental backup and the like but at least you can either sync filesystem or pack it into a large file. If you google for "backup with rsync" or "backup with tar" then you should find some hints ;-) Alternatively you can take an offline copy of a disk using dd.
Hi, Marc. What bunch of things I've learned here in your channel. I'm running HA in supervised instalation on a PI4. The addons that I installed in HA as Mosquito, tasmota or Grafana are inside the HA instalation or outside in containers?
This doubt arise to me after your watch your video. You had installed this features in containers before/outside the HA.
What is the best approach to made a workbench computer as server and made tests around HA and other electronics stuff?
Yks in advance for yr opinion.
Hi Jose, I would assume that you would want to install e.g. the MQTT addons inside of HA. The container installation in this video (or rather in IOTStack) is the MQTT Server itself, i.e. you would connect HA+MQTT addon to the MQTT server container running on the same host for example.
@@OneMarcFifty Hi, Marc. Actually I have already a HA instalation running on standalone PI4 8MB. I did a HA Supervised instalation on docker (it's my assumption that are running on container). By the way, I'm completly docker newbie. The less I know, I've learned watching videos and how to manage with that. Back to the HA, I'm using MQTT which it was integrated in HA through addon store. Besides of Mosquitto I have a lot of other addon instaled, as Wireguard, pi-hole and so on, all integrated by addon store. My doubt is if they are running inside of HA or outside in containers. My goal will be using the PI as home server and IOT hub as well. I'm not sure if it's a crazy idea and if PI4 can handle all the services. I will give a try. As I have several PI's laying around, I would like to test with IOTstack as you explained in this video, and maybe keep the instalation as testing machine. I would appreciate know your opinion. Tks in advance and Happy New Year
Hi Marc! Very useful video, quick question. Will this project run on and ubuntu server?
Hi José, it should - but I haven’t tested it. Some of the services in the stack need hardware though, such as the rf433 part
@@OneMarcFifty thanks a lot!
Thanks a lot. I start learning about home assistant and domotics. Please do you know an alternative to raspberry 4 because il's very difficult to get it?
Hi Adam, yes - the hardware shortage - Well, if you don't need the GPIO ports then you could as well use a small or old PC for this or a thin client or the like.
Hi Marc, my Openhabian distro still runs on a RPI 3B+. I guess I'll try IOTStack sometime with one of my Pi4's currently gathering dust...
I would like to know how many Pi's on this world are actually catching dust ;-) I didn't know Openhabian. Looks very nice - I need to try it out ;-) Thanks for your comment !!!
I'm wondering if it's the right directory to install Webmin. Just in case, wouldn't it be better to have it in a separate folder in home?
Sure you can just remove the webmin_1.974_all.deb file, but also for git pulls on the IOTstack project you may want to avoid the conflict.
With IOTstack I have a difficult time when it comes to networking. For example, my hostname was not accessible (been using IOTstack for a couple months)
Hi Marcel, the two (IOTStack and Webmin) shouldn't really interfere with each other. You can uninstall Webmin with apt remove webmin at any time.
thx. i use domoticz and ha-bridge.
Thanks for the feedback!
Using virtual box with home assist OS. My little i5 is on all the time as a Plex server so I figured I would just use a VM to have HA.
Definitely a good choice ;-)
I plan to make a security system and an automation server for the garage using only a openwrt router with it's GPIO and 3G modem connected via USB. I think it would be interesting to see your ideas about software that can be helpful in that.
Many thanks for your feedback! This is a very interesting idea - which hardware are you looking at ? Will you do it with a Pi or else I think you should use something really powerful for this - What is it that you want to automate ?
@@OneMarcFifty hardware: Asus RT-N16 for example (no miniPC like Pi), automate turning on external light when Bluetooth or Wifi MAC of my phone is near garage. Maybe turning on electrical heater by MQTT or something like that. For security reasons monitoring one or two detectors (door open, no line phase. NO contact. WPS button may be used with some script.) The idea is to use old router that laying around with no usage. And of course it will be a hack )))
@@pashaled That's AWESOME - I like the idea of turning on the light with presence/bluetooth !!! I think you can build this entirely with some bash scripts plus MQTT/mosquitto plus some Sonoff/Tasmota devices around (and a bluetooth stick of course)
Hi Marc, I use a small nanopi with dietpi + nodered + mqqt in a security system that reports me any intrusion via email + telegram bot. I did not use IOTstack for the installation, but I will give a try!
Hi, many thanks for sharing ;-) Didn't know Dietpi - will have a look at it;-)
Hi Nice video. is the Pi4 mandatory for the IOTStack ? can the Pi3 do? I currently pull solar data from victron venus to influxDB than grafana (on docker desktop), but would like to have this data on Home assistant to automate and better utilise the excess of solar. I have dedicated a Pi 3b+ (recently acquired) for the venus OS and Ideally would like to have another Pi handing all the automation / graphs. I have 2x Pi1 and 2xPi3 laying around.
Hi Makaveli -I am not sure if you can use a RPi3 - I'd say you need to try. Of course the Pi3 is much weaker from a CPU standpoint, so the experience with Docker might be somewhat disappointing. I'd say it's too weak for Home Assistant. In a nutshell it depends what you want to run on it - I mean, if you have the hardware - go give it a try. I haven't tried though and therefore I am afraid I can't really give you any compelling yes/no advice...
@@OneMarcFifty Hi Marc, Thanks for the reply, I just would like to confirm that your insturaction are valid for the RPi3, or at least for me as all I needed was Grafana, Influx, and HA. Webmin is handy so thanks.
Any idea how to access the Pi remotely and set up a Pi VPN, I think Andreas made a video about it in 2019. just want to double check if it still valid. will try it now :)
I am not getting the stack to build it gets to the step where its creating the containers then it just locks up.
Hi George, a lot of development has been done on IOTStack since then. If you run into any issues - they have a discord server discord.gg/ZpKHnks where you can ask for help ;-)
what is difference between home assitant vs. iotstack...
not sure if anyone has the same problem but I encountered error (something about no authorisation) when using command
./menu.sh
Hi, many thanks for your feedback. Yes, the project has evolved a lot since - the menu structure changed etc. If you want to check out the old version you can do so by typing git clone -b old-menu https... rather than just git clone https...
I am getting error in docker-compose up -d that no matching manifest for unknown in the manifest list entries can somebody help me to solve it.
Hi Ayush, they have a discord server - maybe worth asking the question there... discord.gg/MtgMBXFU
I Use an octopi image and print weekly, but want to dabble in automation and continue Arduino hobby into RC… but the image is not the best for this.
Yeah true - but installing octoprint by hand is not really enjoyable neither ;-)
Would also like to se a stack where all the maintenance of user name and password are replaced with PKI certificates and siftware tokens.
That is so true - but for everything. Every piece of software comes with its own account management etc....
Scenario: trying to setup Pi-hole on raspberry PI 4 inside Portainer.io using IOTstack
PI-Hole container IP is 10.77.60.7 and port is 8099
I am not able to access with 10.77.60.7 instead I am able to access it with Raspberry IP(192.168.1.2) assigned by router with PI-hole container port 8089 e.g.: 192.168.1.2:8089
Problem: when trying to use PI-Hole IP or Raspberry IP as custom DNS in my Router, its don't work. any clue where am I wrong?
Many thanks
Hi, you might want to check my two videos on Docker networking : th-cam.com/video/7uA7-9AYkT4/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/OmZdItNjWNYi/w-d-xo.htmln order to determine which network interface to use ;-) th-cam.com/channels/G5Ph9Mm6UEQLJJ-kGIC2AQ.html
I have a problem, can you help me please. whenever i try to open the menu i get this: pi@raspberrypi:~/IOTstack $ ./menu.sh
bash: ./menu.sh: No such file or directory