Updating Home Assistant with Docker

When I was exiting the world of HASSIO I read one of the major benefits is updating. Was updating hard? I found out it was not. :unamused:

Turns out… updating Home Assistant with Docker is EASY stuff!

My Setup

Here is what my docker looks like locally:

pi@ha:~ $ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                                            STATUS                   NAMES
7e5316b433f1  homeassistant/raspberrypi4-homeassistant:latest  Up 51 seconds (healthy)  homeassistant
pi@ha:~ $

Updating…

In order to update you’ll need to know where your docker-compose.yml file is located. Simply change to the directory with the docker-compose.yml and do the following:

With Docker-Compose:

docker-compose down
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up

With Docker:

docker stop homeassistant
docker pull homeassistant/raspberrypi4-homeassistant:latest
docker start homeassistant

My personal solution…

I have the following update.sh script in my /root folder that I use to accelerate the update process. To run it I jump into root with sudo su - and then cd $HOME && ./update.sh:

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ]
  then echo "Please run as root"
  exit
fi

cd /root/homeassistant/
docker-compose down &&  docker-compose pull &&  reboot