How To Install Home Assistant Supervisor on Your Synology NAS

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How To Install Home Assistant Supervisor on Your Synology NAS

Do you remember my article on how to install Home Assistant on Your Synology NAS? Today I will teach you how to Install Home Assistant Supervisor. Many of you have asked me how you can install the supervised version of Home Assistant on a Synology NAS, and today I decided to do an article about it. Home Assistant is an Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Synology NAS server. Supervisor integration allows you to monitor and control Supervisor add-ons and operating system from Home Assistant.

💡Note: This guide works perfectly with the latest Home Assistant Supervisor 2023.09.3 release.

  • STEP 1

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  • STEP 2

If you have already installed Home Assistant on your Synology NAS, delete everything that has to do with Home Assistant from your NAS using my guide on How to Clean Docker. This will help you install a fresh copy of Home Assistant with the built-in Supervisor, avoiding incompatibility issues created by previous installations.

  • STEP 3

Install Container Manager via Synology “Package Center”. If you run an older DSM version (under 7.2), search for Docker instead of Container Manager.

Download Container Manager Synology Docker

  • STEP 4

Go to File Station and open the docker folder. Inside the docker folder, create one new folder and name it homeassistant. Follow the instructions in the image below.
Note: Be careful to enter only lowercase, not uppercase letters.

1 Home Assistant Supervisor Synology NAS

  • STEP 5

Download (click on the blue link below) then upload the jobs.json file below in the homeassistant folder that you created at STEP 4. Follow the instructions in the image below. đź”’Note: Support my work to unlock the password. You can use this password to download any file on mariushosting forever!

👉🏻Download jobs.json

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  • STEP 6

Go to Control Panel / Task Scheduler / Create / Scheduled Task / User-defined script. Follow the instructions in the images below.

Synology User Defined Script

  • STEP 7

Once you click on User-defined script a new window will open. Follow the instructions below:

  1. General: In the Task field type in Install Home Assistant. Uncheck “Enabled” option. Select root User.
  2. Schedule: Select Run on the following date then select “Do not repeat“.
  3. Task Settings: Check “Send run details by email“, add your email then copy paste the code below in the Run command area. After that click OK.
docker run -d --name=hassio_supervisor \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
-v /var/run/dbus:/var/run/dbus \
-v /volume1/docker/homeassistant:/data \
-e SUPERVISOR_SHARE=/volume1/docker/homeassistant \
-e SUPERVISOR_NAME=hassio_supervisor \
-e HOMEASSISTANT_REPOSITORY=homeassistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant \
--security-opt seccomp=unconfined \
--privileged \
--restart always \
ghcr.io/home-assistant/amd64-hassio-supervisor:2023.09.3
mount --make-shared /volume1/

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  • STEP 8

After you click OK on STEP 7 a new warning pop up window will open. Click OK.

5 Home Assistant Supervisor Synology NAS

After you click OK, type in your DSM Password then click Submit. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Synology Task Scheduler Confirm Admin Password

  • STEP 9

After you click Submit on STEP 8, select your “Install Home Assistant Supervisor” Task then click the “Run” tab. You will be asked to run Install Home Assistant Supervisor – click OK. Follow the instructions in the image below.

6 Home Assistant Supervisor Synology NAS

  • STEP 10

Go back to STEP 1 or you will deal with karma 🙂

  • STEP 11

Please wait approximately 5 or more minutes for the installation to be completed or you will get a blank page if you try to connect too soon. Now open your browser and type in http://Synology-ip-address:8123 Choose Name, Username, Password and Confirm Password then click CREATE ACCOUNT. Follow the instructions in the image below.

7 Home Assistant Supervisor Synology NAS

  • STEP 12

Choose a name for your Home Assistant then click DETECT. For a more accurate location, move your location point on the MAP. Choose your Time Zone. Choose your Unit System. Choose your Currency. Click NEXT. Follow the instructions in the image below.

8 Home Assistant Supervisor Synology NAS

  • STEP 13

Choose to share or no anonymized information. Click NEXT. Follow the instructions in the image below.

9 Home Assistant Supervisor Synology NAS

  • STEP 14

Click FINISH. Follow the instructions in the image below.

10 Home Assistant Supervisor Synology NAS

  • STEP 15

Welcome to your Home Assistant Supervisor Dashboard! ⚠️ Warning: If you get notifications that say “system unsupported“, just ignore them and delete them. This happens because the Docker daemon engine from Synology is at version 20.10 instead of version 21.

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  • STEP 16

You can also use Dark Mode theme for your Home Assistant Supervisor Dashboard!

12 Home Assistant Supervisor Synology NAS

  • STEP 17

Install multiple Add-ons thanks to the Supervisor!

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  • STEP 18

Note: If you want to run Home Assistant container over HTTPS check How to Run Docker Containers Over HTTPS. In order to make Home Assistant Supervisor work via HTTPS, it’s mandatory to activate WebSocket.

  • STEP 19

Read how to solve 400: Bad Request error.

  • STEP 20

Every time you restart your NAS, you will notice that your Home Assistant Supervisor will have stopped working. To solve this, you need to mount the slave folder again.

Go to Control Panel / Task Scheduler / Create / Scheduled Task / User-defined script. Follow the instructions in the images below. Once you click on User-defined script a new window will open. Follow the instructions below:

  1. General: In the Task field type in Supervisor Slave Folder. Uncheck “Enabled” option. Select root User.
  2. Schedule: Select Run on the following date then select “Do not repeat“.
  3. Task Settings: Check “Send run details by email“, add your email then copy paste the code below in the Run command area. After that click OK.
mount --make-shared /volume1/

  • STEP 21

You can also create boot-up triggered task (instead of scheduled) which can run the mount on start, before Docker starts.

Go to Control Panel / Task Scheduler / Create / Triggered Task / User-defined script. Follow the instructions in the images below. Once you click on User-defined script a new window will open. Follow the instructions below:

  1. Task: In the Task field type in Supervisor Slave Folder. Select the root User.
  2. Event: Boot-up.
  3. Task Settings: Check “Send run details by email“, add your email then copy paste the code below in the Run command area. After that click OK.
mount --make-shared /volume1/

Note: Find out how to update Home Assistant Supervisor container with the latest image.
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This post was updated on Wednesday / September 27th, 2023 at 9:52 PM

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