Guide to Installing Home Assistant and ESPHome with Docker

1. Overview

This document aims to guide users on how to efficiently install and deploy Home Assistant and ESPHome services on a Raspberry Pi using Docker.

2. Prerequisites

Before you begin, please ensure you have completed the following preparations:

3. Installation Steps

Step 1: Prepare the Working Directory

1.Log in to your Raspberry Pi via SSH.

ssh <your_username>@<your_raspberry_pi_ip>

2.First, create a root directory to store Docker container data. This guide uses ~/docker as an example, but you can choose a different path according to your preference.

mkdir ~/docker cd ~/docker

3.Within this directory, create separate subdirectories for Home Assistant and ESPHome data.

mkdir homeassistant mkdir esphome

Step 2: Install Home Assistant

1.Navigate to the homeassistant directory and create a compose.yaml file.

cd homeassistant # You can use the commands you are familiar with to edit compose.yaml, such as vi, vim, etc. nano compose.yaml

2.Paste the following content into the compose.yaml file.

Note: Please modify the - /home/pi/docker/homeassistant/config:/config line in the volumes section according to your actual user and path.

# ~/docker/homeassistant/compose.yaml version: '3' services: homeassistant: container_name: homeassistant image: "ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable" volumes: # Map the container's /config directory to the host for persistent storage of configuration - /home/pi/docker/homeassistant/config:/config - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro - /run/dbus:/run/dbus:ro restart: unless-stopped privileged: true network_mode: host

3.Ensure your current terminal path is in the same directory as the compose.yaml file, then execute the following command to start the service:

docker compose up -d

Step 3: Install ESPHome

1.Return to the docker root directory, navigate into the esphome directory, and create a new compose.yaml file.

cd ../esphome # You can use the commands you are familiar with to edit compose.yaml, such as vi, vim, etc. nano compose.yaml

2.Paste the following configuration content, specific to ESPHome, into the compose.yaml file.

Note: Similarly, please modify the - /home/pi/docker/esphome/config:/config line in the volumes section according to your actual path.

# ~/docker/esphome/compose.yaml version: '3' services: esphome: container_name: esphome image: "ghcr.io/esphome/esphome" volumes: # Map the container's /config directory to the host for persistent storage of device firmware and configurations - /home/pi/docker/esphome/config:/config - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro restart: unless-stopped privileged: true network_mode: host

3.Again, ensure your current terminal path is in the same directory as this compose.yaml file, then execute the following command to start the service:

docker compose up -d

Step 4: Accessing the Services

Once the services have started successfully, you can access Home Assistant and ESPHome via the following addresses in your browser:

Home Assistant: http://<your_raspberry_pi_ip>:8123
ESPHome: http://<your_raspberry_pi_ip>:6052