Installing homeassistant in FreebSD 13.2

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Thanks for keeping this plugin alive!

As of 2023-12-04, Following the directions for 13.2 here:
https://github.com/tprelog/iocage-homeassistant/wiki/autostart-and-rc-service#starting-the-service

Got a few errors on service homeassistant start :

1. webrtc-noise-gain

2023-12-04 04:24:39.022 ERROR (SyncWorker_3) [homeassistant.util.package] Unable to install package webrtc-noise-gain==1.2.3: error: subprocess-exited-with-error
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      ValueError: Unsupported system: freebsd
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Looks like they're aware of it: rhasspy/webrtc-noise-gain#6 (comment)

To fix:

pkg install -y git-lite
/usr/local/share/homeassistant/bin/pip install git+https://github.com/rhasspy/webrtc-noise-gain.git

2. ninja (required by PyTurboJPEG)

  × Building wheel for ninja (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
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          self.cmake_version = get_cmake_version(self.cmake_executable)
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ko3oubqz/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/skbuild/cmaker.py", line 105, in get_cmake_version
          raise SKBuildError(msg) from err
      
      Problem with the CMake installation, aborting build. CMake executable is cmake
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To fix:

pkg install -y cmake
/usr/local/share/homeassistant/bin/pip install ninja

3. PyAV

Unable to install package ha-av==10.1.1: error: subprocess-exited-with-error
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      pkg-config is required for building PyAV

To fix:

pkg install pkgconf
/usr/local/share/homeassistant/bin/pip install ha-av==10.1.1

4. Numpy 1.26.0

2023-12-04 05:54:08.936 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup failed for stream: Requirements for stream not found: ['numpy==1.26.0'].

Looks like they're aware of it: numpy/numpy#24873 (comment)

To fix:

cd /usr/local/share/homeassistant/
git clone https://github.com/numpy/numpy.git numpy-git
cd numpy-git
git checkout v1.26.0
git cherry-pick 040ed2d
git submodule update --init
cd ..
/usr/local/share/homeassistant/bin/pip install numpy-git/

5. Finally & hopefully without errors: service homeassistant start

[robvanoostenrijk]

Home Assistant now is generating a warning about Python 3.11, and the move to Python 3.12 only.

Python 3.12 is problematic on FreeBSD because of the changes in setup tools. However with the way Python is used for Home Assistant (with pip venv packages only), this does not necessarily pose a problem.

Python 3.11 can be uninstalled from pkg and Python 3.12 installed as follows:

RELEASE=3.12.2

cd /root
wget -qO- https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${RELEASE}/Python-${RELEASE}.tar.xz | tar -xJ
cd /root/Python-${RELEASE}/
./configure --disable-test-modules --enable-optimizations
make -j $(nproc)
make altinstall
rm -f -R /root/Python-${RELEASE}

This makes python3.12 available in /usr/local/bin/python3.12. Run this only in a iocage or jail on FreeBSD!
All the above steps still apply and the rc.d script works fine.

Edit: Hacky script for the whole thing:
https://gist.github.com/robvanoostenrijk/0978f3f919a540cb0b280a6978cbe8aa

[thstyl2000]

For the brave ones that still want to run homeassistant in an iocage jail:

• we need to activate the environment in the rc script. Add . ${homeassistant_venv}/bin/activate right after the variable definitions (ex after : "${homeassistant_restart_delay:=1}")
• compile python 3.12 as per the previous comment
• install HA via rc
• get all problematic dependencies by executing: service homeassistant install ha-av==10.1.1 ninja==1.11.1.1 netifaces==0.11.0 pymicro-vad==1.0.1 pyspeex-noise==1.0.2 universal-silabs-flasher==0.0.22 zha==0.0.34 PyNaCl==1.5.0 numpy==1.26.4 (Versions are for HA v 2024.10.4. You will probably need to change these for other versions of HA)
• continue with starting the service.
• watch logs and cross fingers!