Installing Docker and Home Assistant Container

I show you how you can supercharge your Smart Home by installing Docker, Docker Compose, Portainer and Home Assistant Container onto a Linux computer.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Prerequisites
02:06 - Installing Docker Engine
05:27 - Managing Docker without Root/Sudo permissions
06:23 - Installing Docker Compose
06:49 - Installing Portainer on Docker
11:11 - Installing Home Assistant Container on Docker
14:30 - Using iFrame Panels on Home Assistant to access other UIs
16:28 - Next up in the series...

[ARMCreations]

This is incredibly helpful. Installed this on my NUC and everything went flawlessly!
Thank you so much for this walk through!

[fuzzbreezie]

Its nice to see this approach to running Home Assistant. I also run Home Assistant in docker but I used the supervised version. This is really great stuff and I look forward to the rest of the videos in this series. Please keep up the good work. I understand the effort it takes to get this done.

[jaguarke]

Was hesitant to go the container route. Started fiddling with full-on VM on ubuntu desktop and mac osx on a mac mini 204. Followed your guide and couldn't be happier. Thanks for producing a clear to follow guide! Looking forward to learning more.

[emilianofernandezcervantes]

I came to this video to learn how to install home assistant and ended up watching a complete class of docker compose. Great content, keep it up!

[systematictechnology]

Excellent tutorial. I got everything set up on my system with no dramas. Thanks!

[AndreasLenze]

Brilliant! I recently attempted to move my VirtualBox HA to Docker, but ran into some roadblocks. Your video is just what I needed - thank you.

[II]

Can't thank you enough! Best tutorial so far! Installed on Lenovo ThinkCenter mini computer with Ubuntu Server.

[ooooooooo]

This Is, By Far the, best Tutorial of Installing (and actually understanding what you are doing during the installation process RPi/Linux ) of Home Assistant. Thank You!!! ( subbed )

for anyone that follows this tut and get a "Permission denied when execute docker-compose command" during the install process
use "docker compose" (without the dash) is the updated version of "docker-compose"

[lidbergtech]

God damn! I was so curious to start with Docker and Ubuntu. Did start, but never got it to work even though watching other YT channels. From your channel it made it a lot more simple! Thank you so much!

[ThomasAshworth]

Perfect timing, I just started my home lab upgrade for a pi to a micro pc

[russtuff]

This is solid gold. I couldn't get it working several times, and it was always because I didn't read your steps closely enough :)

[clarkedigital]

Amazing. Thank you. Really easy step by step guide. Already lining up the next videos.

[fearthesmeag]

Cheers for this Alan. I was scratching my head with another YT video for the last couple trying to make sense of it. Until I found this! Seamless and no issues at all. Next task, to get my Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 dongle to be seen by my Synology DS.

[sachnows]

Great guide. Though one thing was different on Raspberry Pi.

To install docker-compose I had to do this instead:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y python3-pip libffi-dev
sudo pip install docker-compose

Hope that helps someone.

[sharpenedge]

dude. definitely the best tut for ha setup on linux. i just finished my setup and you helped me greatly. bravo sir.

Great tutorial, even a non-technical person will understand what to do. Thank you for making life easier for "lazy" people =]

[gooseza]

Great tutorial, thanks! As a first time Linux user, it was pretty scary to blindly paste in all those commands... but it all worked - thank you!!! The next part of my journey is to now understand what the hell I just typed in! lol

[nagisupercell]

Great video. I believe people will know better after going though this series.

[gaicotoonen]

Hi Allen, Thanks so much for your video/tutorial and clear overview of all the elements. You are a good explainer. HA was running within a day on my Beelink AMD.

[jaxwylde]

I'm a recent subscriber, and like what I see so far. One suggestion I'll make is to promote official install process (like you did for installing Home Assistant using Docker). In the section where you're showing how to install Portainer, it would have been better to reference Portainer's documentation as it has changed a bit since your original post (ex. they're now using port 9001 vs 9000). It'll still work, but it's always best to reference most current install steps than using something that worked at one point in the past.