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		greggsy on Dec 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant USB passthrough for docker (and LVM) is a massive pain. Avoid if you're just starting out. VMs or physical deployments are much more straight forward.

silversmith on Dec 17, 2024 | [–]

Could you elaborate? I run HA in docker, and the extent of necessary configuration was adding this in docker-compose.yml:

    devices:
      - /dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0

Coelacanthus on Dec 17, 2024 | [–]

Maybe you can consider USB/IP to pass thorough USB device over network.

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