
## Installation of home-assistant on Synology

Follow https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/alternative/:

The steps would be:

Install “Docker” package on your Synology NAS
Launch Docker-app and move to “Registry”-section
Find “homeassistant/home-assistant” within registry and click on “Download”. Choose the “stable” tag.
Wait for some time until your NAS has pulled the image
Move to the “Image”-section of the Docker-app
Click on “Launch”
Choose a container-name you want (e.g., “homeassistant”)
Click on “Advanced Settings”
Set “Enable auto-restart” if you like
Within “Volume” click on “Add Folder” and choose either an existing folder or add a new folder. The “mount path” has to be “/config”, so that Home Assistant will use it for the configs and logs. It is therefore recommended that the folder you choose should be named “config” or “homeassistant/config” to avoid confusion when referencing it within service calls.
Within “Network” select “Use same network as Docker Host”
To ensure that Home Assistant displays the correct timezone go to the “Environment” tab and click the plus sign then add variable = TZ & value = Europe/London choosing your correct timezone
Confirm the “Advanced Settings”
Click on “Next” and then “Apply”
Your Home Assistant within Docker should now run and will serve the web interface from port 8123 on your Docker host (this will be your Synology NAS IP address - for example http://10.0.0.142:8123)


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## Update and restart HA on Synology in Docker

Remark: to update your Home Assistant on your Docker within Synology NAS, you just have to do the following:

Go to the Docker-app and move to “Registry”-section
Find “homeassistant/home-assistant” within registry and click on “Download”. Choose the “stable” tag.
Wait until the system-message/-notification comes up, that the download is finished (there is no progress bar)
Move to “Container”-section
Stop your container if it’s running
Right-click on it and select “Action”->“Reset”. You won’t lose any data, as all files are stored in your configuration-directory
Start the container again - it will then boot up with the new Home Assistant image
Remark: to restart your Home Assistant within Synology NAS, you just have to do the following:

Go to the Docker-app and move to “Container”-section
Right-click on it and select “Action”->“Restart”.


## Install git on Synology via SynoCommunity (https://synocommunity.com/)

Install the SynoCommunity package source
Install ‘git’ using the package manager
Now you can use ‘git’ commands from the CLI while SSHed into the
Synology.


## Install Gitea iva Docker

https://thomes.blog/2020/12/09/how-to-gitea-on-synology/

## use git version control on the local gitea client
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/sharing-your-configuration-on-github/195144

Ensure a sensible .gitignore and secrets.yaml

git init
git config user.email "you@example.com"
git config user.name "Your Name"
git add .
git commit

(use gitea instead of github)

Make repos on gitea and use the commands at the initial page to do
git remote add origin


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## Editing in Emacs

Now, the synology homeassistant drive can be mounted and files be
opened in Emacs

Use the VC mode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YlYX_UjH5Q
CTRL-x v CTRL-h

C-x v v : vc-next-action

C-c C-c : commit

C-x v P
