Home Assistant with Timescaledb and Grafana

About the project

Building a docker enviroment for smart house. I use a Raspberry Pi 4, but anything that runs docker-compose can be used.

Containers

• home-assistant
• timescaledb
• pgadmin4
• grafana
• mosquitto

Getting Started

To get the project up and running on a Raspberry Pi 4 follow these simple steps.

Prerequisites

• Raspberry Pie OS
• SSH connection enabled

Installing docker and docker compose

1. Update and upgrade.

   Make shure the package manager has the latest version.

   sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt autoremove && sudo apt autoclean

2. Install docker.

   Docker provides a handy script for installing.

   curl -sSL https://get.docker.com | sh

3. Add a non-root user to the docker group.

   Docker by default only root users can run containers. To avoid having to use sudo with every docker command, add the current user to the docker group.

   sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER}

4. Install docker-compose.

   Installing docker-compose will can be done using pip3. To do that some packages needs to be installed.

   sudo apt-get install libffi-dev libssl-dev
   sudo apt install python3-dev
   sudo apt-get install -y python3 python3-pip

   After that pip3 can be used to install docker-compose.

   sudo pip3 install docker-compose

5. Enable dockersystem service to start on boot.

   This step is usefull when containers have a restart policy set to always or unless-stopped. To make docker automatically start on boot run the following command.

   sudo systemctl enable docker