tprelog
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With USB passthrough finally coming to VMs on SCALE, I was excited to think I could move away from using a docker hack (which ironically seems to be the only thing that actually works as expected, for Home Assistant) to more acceptable setup.
I went ahead and jumped on the Bluefin beta train, got Home Assistant OS installed in a new VM and even managed to add my Aeotec Z-Wave stick. Which works wonderfully, by the way! I was really starting to get excited, this could be the first time ever running Home Assistant in a "fully supported" capacity on TrueNAS.
My excitement was however short lived as I soon found out VMs do not allow multicast traffic, which is a key component for Home Assistant. I found this to be a temporary work around (It was posted in another thread I lost track of).
I thought a init script on startup would be an easy solution but the
Can someone please point me in direction to get multicast working in my VM?
On side note after I rebooted my SCALE server, I can no longer connect to the VM display either - I just get a 502 Bad Gateway error. The VM still starts and I have ssh access so it's not a show stopper.
I went ahead and jumped on the Bluefin beta train, got Home Assistant OS installed in a new VM and even managed to add my Aeotec Z-Wave stick. Which works wonderfully, by the way! I was really starting to get excited, this could be the first time ever running Home Assistant in a "fully supported" capacity on TrueNAS.
My excitement was however short lived as I soon found out VMs do not allow multicast traffic, which is a key component for Home Assistant. I found this to be a temporary work around (It was posted in another thread I lost track of).
Code:
ip link set macvtap0 allmulticast on
I thought a init script on startup would be an easy solution but the
macvtapX
changes with each reboot.Can someone please point me in direction to get multicast working in my VM?
On side note after I rebooted my SCALE server, I can no longer connect to the VM display either - I just get a 502 Bad Gateway error. The VM still starts and I have ssh access so it's not a show stopper.
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