Home Assistant

Description / name	Input element
Container Registry
Container Configuration Root Path
Timezone
User ID
Group ID
Home Assistant /config Path

Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

Requires ocijail with annotation support (≥ 0.6.0)

This image needs the jail permission allow.raw_sockets, applied via OCI annotations. FreeBSD quarterly ships ocijail 0.4.0, which has no annotation support — the container starts but the permission is silently dropped, so the app can crash or misbehave. Point your pkg repos at the latest branch (ocijail ≥ 0.6.0) and run with the annotation flag shown below. See the ocijail guide.


Registry	`ghcr.io/daemonless/home-assistant`
Daemonless	daemonless/home-assistant
Source	daemonless/home-assistant
Website	www.home-assistant.io

Version Tags

Tag	Description	Best For
`latest`	Upstream Binary. Built from official release.	Most users. Matches Linux Docker behavior.

Root Privileges Required

Podman on FreeBSD currently requires root. All commands must be run as root (or via doas/sudo).

Before deploying, ensure your host environment is ready. See the Quick Start Guide for host setup instructions.

Deployment

Podman Compose AppJail Director Podman CLI AppJail Ansible

services:
  home-assistant:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/home-assistant:latest"
    container_name: home-assistant
    environment:
      - PUID=1000  # User ID for the application process
      - PGID=1000  # Group ID for the application process
      - TZ=UTC  # Timezone for the container
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/home-assistant:/config"
    annotations:
      org.freebsd.jail.allow.raw_sockets: "true"
    restart: unless-stopped

# .env

DIRECTOR_PROJECT=home-assistant
PUID=1000
PGID=1000
TZ=UTC

# appjail-director.yml

options:
  - alias:
  - ip4_inherit:
services:
  home-assistant:
    name: home_assistant
    options:
      - container: 'boot args:--pull'
    oci:
      user: root
      environment:
        - PUID: !ENV '${PUID}'
        - PGID: !ENV '${PGID}'
        - TZ: !ENV '${TZ}'
    volumes:
      - HOME_ASSISTANT_CONFIG_PATH: /config
volumes:
  HOME_ASSISTANT_CONFIG_PATH:
    device: '/path/to/containers/home-assistant'

# Makejail

ARG tag=latest

OPTION overwrite=force
OPTION from=ghcr.io/daemonless/home-assistant:${tag}
SET allow.raw_sockets=1

podman run -d --name home-assistant \
  --annotation 'org.freebsd.jail.allow.raw_sockets=true' \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -v /path/to/containers/home-assistant:/config \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/home-assistant:latest

appjail oci run -Pd \
  -o overwrite=force \
  -o container="args:--pull" \
  -o virtualnet=":<random> default" \
  -o nat \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -o fstab="/path/to/containers/home-assistant /config <pseudofs>" \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/home-assistant:latest home-assistant

- name: Deploy home-assistant
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: home-assistant
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/home-assistant:latest"
    state: started
    restart_policy: always
    env:
      PUID: "1000"
      PGID: "1000"
      TZ: "UTC"
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/home-assistant:/config"
    annotation:
      org.freebsd.jail.allow.raw_sockets: "true"

Interactive Configuration

Parameters

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
`PUID`	`1000`	User ID for the application process
`PGID`	`1000`	Group ID for the application process
`TZ`	`UTC`	Timezone for the container

Volumes

Path	Description
`/config`	Configuration directory

Implementation Details

Architectures: amd64
User: bsd (UID/GID set via PUID/PGID). Defaults to 1000:1000.
Base: Built on ghcr.io/daemonless/base (FreeBSD 15.1).

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