HACS installation to wrong place for Homeassistant appdaemon add-on

[rocketraman]

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Description of the bug

The HACS installation on HomeAssistant OS is not in the right place for recent versions of HomeAssistant that use the AppDaemon add-on.

Expected behavior

The HACS installation places qolsysgw in /homeassistant/appdaemon/apps/qolsysgw/.

However appdaemon is now relocated to /addon_configs with a prefix. See forum post: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/appdaemon-yaml-file-disappeared/641398/2.

DEBUG logs

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Additional context

Workaround appears to be to first install the appdaemon addon, then create a symlink:

# prefix may be different?
ln -s /addon_configs/a0d7b954_appdaemon /homeassistant/appdaemon

Then download qolsysgw from HACS again.

[rocketraman]

Related issue? #132

[Tobbe7612]

Can anyone confirm that the symlink workaround works?

[rocketraman]

One note: after the update to HomeAssistant today, my symlink was destroyed. Attempting to apply the update to qolsysgw 1.6.0, I got the error that "/config/appdaemon/apps" did not exist. Recreating the symlink does not fix the update for some reason -- maybe its ignoring symlinks?

Using a mount --bind did not work either -- the docker container used by HomeAssistatn OS doesn't have CAP_SYS_ADMIN, so we get a permission denied error inside the container.

So I created /config/appdaemon/apps (which is symlinked to /homeassistant/appdaemon/apps) manually, did the qolsysgw update, then moved the qolsysgw files to the right place manually.

[JosephChristiano]

Using the file editor in home assistant, or vi via the command prompt.
Edit the file /addon_configs/xxxxxxxx_appdaemon/appdaemon.yaml

Replace the x's with your specific folder name.

Add the following line.
app_dir: /homeassistant/appdaemon/apps/

This will get Appdaemon to look in the old folder without a symlink.

[rocketraman]

It doesn't seem as if this is an issue any more -- in checking my system now, my manually created symlink is gone, qolsysgw is installed in the new and correct location /addon_configs/xxxxxxxx_appdaemon/apps.

I don't know if a qolsysgw update, or HACS update, or appdaemon update "fixed" this, or one or more of the above, but it appears to be a non-issue now.

Thanks and closing!