False and misleading information

Yet more updates, turns out as of a few days ago, they now actually provide a container of the matter server _without_ all the home assistant OS cruft. so it’s even easier:

$ podman run -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro -v /run/dbus:/run/dbus:ro  -d --network=host ghcr.io/home-assistant-libs/python-matter-server:stable

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so, home assistant only formally supports matter via an home assistant “Addons” which are only supported by the Home Assistant “OS”. That’s… not a cool way of runnings for me, and all it really does is run a docker server wrapping an external service they made, python-matter-server

The Docker service they made is here: https://github.com/home-assistant/addons/tree/master/matter_server This… doesn’t run nicely with podman, but it can mostly be worked around pretty easily.

So, assuming you have home assistant already running on localhost, under podman:

$ podman run -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro -v /run/dbus:/run/dbus:ro  -d --network=host -e SUPERVISOR_API=http://localhost docker.io/homeassistant/aarch64-addon-matter-server:latest

The -e SUPERVISOR_API call doesn’t actually do anything, because you don’t actually have the home assistant supervisor, but it might be helpful in some cases, and shows you how to do it anyway.

Originally there were more instructions, below, but they actually went and fixed my bug report eventually, so you no longer need anything other then “usual” podman invocations on their default image.

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Unfortunately you will need to edit a few layers, as they seem pretty against letting this be run easily without their entire OS

# First make sure we're up to date
$ podman pull docker.io/homeassistant/aarch64-addon-matter-server
# now, run that, and get a shell in it, we need to edit...
$ podman run -d docker.io/homeassistant/aarch64-addon-matter-server
390841611cf49675741ec72ea91341aef628fd6865bba51eeee9d0f1533473b8
$ podman exec -it -l /bin/bash
root@390841611cf4:~#

Ok, now, what are we fixing? Well, the log line from that bug report linked first… Despite closing my issue, they actually fixed this later…

That… actually means you don’t need to do any image fuckery at all… Lets just do some magic podman to replicate the docker file sufficiently…