Where Does Home Assistant Store Backups?

Backup of your Home Assistant and add-on data and configuration. They are stored in a compressed archive file (. tar). Backups are made from the Supervisor Backups panel.

Where are Home Assistant snapshots stored?

Home Assistant OS Snapshots
Snapshots are easily made in Home Assistant OS and are a service that can be automated. These can be made from the UI or the CLI (see below). They are stored in the /backup directory.

How do I restore my Home Assistant backup?

Restore in Home Assistant Web Interface

1. Go to “Supervisor”.
2. Go to the “Snapshot” tab.
3. Select the Snapshot you wish to restore.
4. Deselect anything you don’t wish to restore.
5. Select “restore”.
6. Wait several minutes while Home Assistant restores your configuration.

How do I add a repository to Home Assistant?

A user can add a repository by going to the Supervisor panel in Home Assistant, clicking on the store icon in the top right, copy/paste the URL of your repository into the repository textarea and click on Save.

What is home assistant Hacs?

HACS is an abbreviation of “Home Assistant Community Store”. Although “Store” is not “technically” correct since nothing is sold, it’s more like a marketplace? but “HACM” didn’t have the same ring to it. HACS is a component that gives the user a powerful UI to handle downloads of custom needs.

How do I backup my Lovelace?

Recorder

1. Install HomeAssistantOS.
2. Login to HA.
3. Setup Samba Addon.
4. Browse to HA/Backup folder.
5. Drop in tar file.
6. Go to restore page in HA.
7. Click the Refresh button inside the UI (Not on the browser)
8. Your tar file will appear.

How long does a Home Assistant restore take?

This should take about 10 minutes, but can be depending on the amount of data. After a final restart it will then be finally restored. All the entities, devices, automations and more is now back and you can use your Home Assistant again as before.

What port is Home Assistant on?

port 8123
Just within your home network you might know that your Home Assistant is on an IP like 192.168. 1.4 and listening on port 8123. If you use Home Assistant OS and haven’t changed any of the defaults, Home Assistant will also be reachable at http://homeassistant.local:8123.

How long does it take for Hacs to start?

Which in return will cause the initial startup of HACS to take over 1 hour to finish.

How do I add GitHub to my Home Assistant?

Once you have the custom repository menu open, paste the Custom Component’s GitHub URL, select Integration, hit save, and wait a few seconds for HACS to fetch the Custom Component and put it’s source code under your Home Assistant configuration folder.

How do I backup my Home Assistant container?

How do I back-up Home Assistant?

1. In Home Assistant go to Supervisor on the left hand side.
2. Click on the Snapshots tab.
3. Give the Snapshot a name.
4. Select either full or partial snapshot.
5. Optionally provide a password for the snapshot.
6. Click on CREATE to create the snapshot.

What is Nabu casa?

Nabu Casa is a paid subscription service which is linked to your Home Assistant instance, the main purpose of Nabu Casa is two fold, give the smart home owner access to their smart home outside of their home network, and secondly to help fund the home assistant developers and cloud infrastructure.

What is HassOS based on?

Home Assistant Operating System (HassOS) is based on buildroot. It’s a hypervisor for Docker and supports various kind of hardware.

Where are Home Assistant logs?

To view your logs, navigate to Configuration -> Logs. In order to not overload Home Assistant with log data, only the 50 last errors and warnings will be stored. Older entries are automatically discarded from the log.

Where is Hacs Home Assistant?

One of the most commonly used features that Home Assistant Community Store allows is easy installation of custom integrations and components. Here is how to do this. Go to HACS section again (in the left sidebar of Home Assistant) > Integrations > Explore & Add Repositories.

How do you get rid of Hacs?

Revoke OAuth access

1. Find HACS in the list of apps, click on the 3 dots to the right of HACS.
2. Select “Revoke”

Can you SSH into Home Assistant?

I am running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 3B and I would like to be able to SSH into it.By default the Home Assistant OS does not have SSH enabled and you need to install an add-on to be able to do this.

How do I turn on Advanced Mode Home Assistant?

Activate Advanced Mode
Go to the Profile tab in Home Assistant and scroll down to turn on Advanced Mode. Advanced mode will give you the ability to use the Check Configuration tool.

How long does a snapshot restore take?

Restoring from the Snapshot takes 25 minutes! 25 minutes for the restore is too long considering users are forced to stay in read only mode for all this period and that our DB size is less than 10 mb at the moment.

How do I access Home Assistant in cloud?

Getting started
Now restart Home Assistant and navigate to the configuration panel. It will offer a new cloud section. Here you can create an account and login. Once logged in, your instance will connect to the cloud.

What is Home Assistant Io?

www.home-assistant.io. Home Assistant is a free and open-source software for home automation that is designed to be the central control system for smart home devices with focus on local control and privacy.