I have watched a couple of your videos now and I must say I am greatly enjoying your presentation. I would be one of those who would like to see a docker install of ESPHome if you feel inclined to produce it. Thank you for taking the time to make the videos. Defiantly worth watching!! Joe
Thank you for the feedback. The first docker episode is written and should come soon, it starts at installing Debian Linux all the way to a fully functional Portainer instance . Later with shorter episodes will go into installing and extending Home Assistant with ESPHome, NGINX Proxy manager, Tailscale, PiHole, Code Server to mention just a few and probably beyond into a fully working “Home server” using Docker.
@@homeautomatorza I don't want to mislead you. I have docker containers running a lot of things. For example, my home assistant machine is an i5 with 24GB ram, running Ubuntu 22.04 and docker ce. On it I run in docker containers, HA, zigbee2mqtt, mosquitto, vs code server, whisper, piper, open wake word, music assistant, portainer, etc. On another machine I run things like NGINX, piwigo, adguard, nextcloud AIO, and other stuff. I guess I was initially confused with running esphome in a container was that I didn't realize immediately that the web interface was available and thought I would have to exec into the container and run command line commands. Now, having said that, I was able to use your default esp device config, with a secrets file and install it on an esp32 device, and get it into HA. Now, you have some items in your list I would like to explore, so am looking forward to your videos. Thank you for sharing. I understand the work involved in making videos and getting them posted since I have a channel of my own. I sincerely appreciate your effort. Joe
@@homeautomatorza well, I replied a rather long reply, but I think YT deleted it. Short reply, I run ha in docker along with several other containers, but I am interested in your series because you use some that I don't. Thanks again for all the hard work on your behalf and sharing with the rest of us. Joe
@@homeautomatorza just wondering what do you use as a firewall? I use pfSense, adGuard, and quad9 as upstream dns. Never used pihole, so that will be interesting. Along with a couple other mentions in your reply it should be an interesting series!!! Joe
Hi Joe, Firstly, I don't understand why this comment could not be seen from your side as it was not held for review. Docker is very useful and flexible for a home lab as you have obviously figured out, it is just not as friendly as other methods such as CasaOs which manages everything for you for example. I run my entire home lab on a single NUC i5, 16GB RAM, 2 SSDs and Proxmox. I have a Synology NAS for storage, a couple of containers and backups. I would recomend that you look at migrating your machine to Proxmox, you seem to have the hardware for it. You'll be able to run both docker and full Operating Systems on it. I use LXC containers to run Docker in Debian. I subscribed to your channel and will check it out later.
the only "secrets" I get are the wifi_ssid and wifi_password, the others, api:encryption, ota:password, ap password, are all new, not using the ones I put in "secrets". Is this a new thing? ie. we have to have different passwords etc? I went with the suggested ones, and it worked eventually. I am on windows, and I didn't realise for a while, I had to plug the ESP32 into my windows machine, not the Home Assistant machine. Also the vist would only work with the IP address, not the local thing. The ending made me jump!! Thanks for your efforts. It all helps the learning process.
Hi Michael, You can add more key value pairs to the secrets file, in fact as many as you want. As for the extra ones I put in, you can have the same password for all you ESPHome devices, it makes managing them easier, just make sure it’s a strong password. Glad the tutorial helped you.
@@homeautomatorza For some reason I thought, when I opened the espdemo.yaml, because I had the passwords etc in secrets, it would assume secret. But, I see now having viewed your foundation, we put the secret option in, and like you, I feel one for each is plenty variables, each device would be a brain ache.
Like to add the following text sensors to most of my ESPhome devices: text_sensor: - platform: wifi_info ip_address: name: IP Address ssid: name: SSID bssid: name: BSSID mac_address: name: Wifi MAC scan_results: name: Scan Results
You jumped the gun a little there, Jurie. That is all in my next video, this was just installing and testing, plus the web server. I will be going far deeper but I want to make this as beginner friendly as possible, baby steps and under 30 minutes when I can. But thank you for the comment.
Sorry, looking forward to future releases on the Pico. I have a couple running... including a 3 CT device to measure currents for power consumption. Did also get couple of small TFT's working on Pico running ESPhome.
@@jurievorster9470 A CT power meter is on my list of tutorial, I have not made one yet because I want to include a power supply with it and ... Funds. But it's in the pipeline.
I have watched a couple of your videos now and I must say I am greatly enjoying your presentation. I would be one of those who would like to see a docker install of ESPHome if you feel inclined to produce it. Thank you for taking the time to make the videos. Defiantly worth watching!!
Joe
Thank you for the feedback.
The first docker episode is written and should come soon, it starts at installing Debian Linux all the way to a fully functional Portainer instance .
Later with shorter episodes will go into installing and extending Home Assistant with ESPHome, NGINX Proxy manager, Tailscale, PiHole, Code Server to mention just a few and probably beyond into a fully working “Home server” using Docker.
@@homeautomatorza I don't want to mislead you. I have docker containers running a lot of things. For example, my home assistant machine is an i5 with 24GB ram, running Ubuntu 22.04 and docker ce. On it I run in docker containers, HA, zigbee2mqtt, mosquitto, vs code server, whisper, piper, open wake word, music assistant, portainer, etc. On another machine I run things like NGINX, piwigo, adguard, nextcloud AIO, and other stuff.
I guess I was initially confused with running esphome in a container was that I didn't realize immediately that the web interface was available and thought I would have to exec into the container and run command line commands. Now, having said that, I was able to use your default esp device config, with a secrets file and install it on an esp32 device, and get it into HA.
Now, you have some items in your list I would like to explore, so am looking forward to your videos.
Thank you for sharing. I understand the work involved in making videos and getting them posted since I have a channel of my own. I sincerely appreciate your effort.
Joe
@@homeautomatorza well, I replied a rather long reply, but I think YT deleted it. Short reply, I run ha in docker along with several other containers, but I am interested in your series because you use some that I don't. Thanks again for all the hard work on your behalf and sharing with the rest of us.
Joe
@@homeautomatorza just wondering what do you use as a firewall? I use pfSense, adGuard, and quad9 as upstream dns. Never used pihole, so that will be interesting. Along with a couple other mentions in your reply it should be an interesting series!!!
Joe
Hi Joe,
Firstly, I don't understand why this comment could not be seen from your side as it was not held for review.
Docker is very useful and flexible for a home lab as you have obviously figured out, it is just not as friendly as other methods such as CasaOs which manages everything for you for example.
I run my entire home lab on a single NUC i5, 16GB RAM, 2 SSDs and Proxmox. I have a Synology NAS for storage, a couple of containers and backups.
I would recomend that you look at migrating your machine to Proxmox, you seem to have the hardware for it.
You'll be able to run both docker and full Operating Systems on it. I use LXC containers to run Docker in Debian.
I subscribed to your channel and will check it out later.
Great video. I like the route your going down
Thanks Barry, I am just learning how to put the videos together, I hope to introduce new things in every videos until I find my style.
the only "secrets" I get are the wifi_ssid and wifi_password, the others, api:encryption, ota:password, ap password, are all new, not using the ones I put in "secrets". Is this a new thing? ie. we have to have different passwords etc?
I went with the suggested ones, and it worked eventually.
I am on windows, and I didn't realise for a while, I had to plug the ESP32 into my windows machine, not the Home Assistant machine. Also the vist would only work with the IP address, not the local thing.
The ending made me jump!!
Thanks for your efforts. It all helps the learning process.
Hi Michael,
You can add more key value pairs to the secrets file, in fact as many as you want.
As for the extra ones I put in, you can have the same password for all you ESPHome devices, it makes managing them easier, just make sure it’s a strong password.
Glad the tutorial helped you.
@@homeautomatorza For some reason I thought, when I opened the espdemo.yaml, because I had the passwords etc in secrets, it would assume secret. But, I see now having viewed your foundation, we put the secret option in, and like you, I feel one for each is plenty variables, each device would be a brain ache.
I run Home Assistant via docker. I would appreciate you showing an install via docker. Thank you.
Sure, I'll added it to my Quickies release
Like to add the following text sensors to most of my ESPhome devices:
text_sensor:
- platform: wifi_info
ip_address:
name: IP Address
ssid:
name: SSID
bssid:
name: BSSID
mac_address:
name: Wifi MAC
scan_results:
name: Scan Results
You jumped the gun a little there, Jurie.
That is all in my next video, this was just installing and testing, plus the web server.
I will be going far deeper but I want to make this as beginner friendly as possible, baby steps and under 30 minutes when I can.
But thank you for the comment.
Sorry, looking forward to future releases on the Pico.
I have a couple running... including a 3 CT device to measure currents for power consumption.
Did also get couple of small TFT's working on Pico running ESPhome.
@@jurievorster9470 A CT power meter is on my list of tutorial, I have not made one yet because I want to include a power supply with it and ... Funds. But it's in the pipeline.
Your video goes a bit wonky at the end, just after "Lets Wrap Up"...but otherwise a really nice video.😊
Thanks Geo, I saw that late last night, I don't know what happened.
I'll check the whole video once it's up next time.