Restarting Containers

[morpheouso]

Is it possible to restart containers with this like it was with HA-dockermon? EG:
shell_command: restart_hass: 'curl http://127.0.0.1:8126/container/home-assistant/restart'

[Kisty]

I am able to with a switch. In generates a switch for each docker container e.g. switch.docker_.

[matt8707]

Yes, but restarting the hass container from hass?

[Kisty]

@matt8707 What do you mean? Like restart another container other than home assistant?

[matt8707]

No, I mean stopping the home-assistant docker container from lovelace would cut the connection. You can't start the container again from the ui if you stopped home assistant.

ha-dockermon has a restart command.

[Morphy99]

You can restart HA from the GUI? I guess if it hangs it could be an issue.

On the other side a restart is less cumbersome, you'd have to wait for the container to stop before starting again with the switch. Implementing that in a HA automation could be problematic.

[matt8707]

If i restart or stop from the ui hass doesn't load 30% of the time. Seems like I'm not alone with this issue.

you'd have to wait for the container to stop before starting again with the switch. Implementing that in a HA automation could be problematic.

How would home assistant trigger an automation if home assistant isn't running?

[Morphy99]

I was referring to other containers not HA specifically in that sentence. For example I restart zigbee2mqtt on HA restart to properly detect the states of my devices.

I guess we agree that Dockermon could do with a restart function at least 😆

I've also had it occasionally refuse to restart from the GUI as well. This is usually down to a config error somewhere that prevents it stopping gracefully AFAIK

[matt8707]

I can replicate on a vanilla install of home assistant core in docker. Never had issues on hass.io so I'm not sure it's a config error. I mean it's not a huge deal, I can restart from shell.

[Morphy99]

I can replicate on a vanilla install of home assistant core in docker. Never had issues on hass.io so I'm not sure it's a config error. I mean it's not a huge deal, I can restart from shell.

That's odd, maybe a docker config issue then? I have HA core docker running on RPi4 on Libreelec and restarts fine 99% of the time. Only time I can recall it not working is when I had a config error in my yaml I forgot to correct before restarting. What version of HA are you running? I'm one behind latest so maybe a bug in the most recent?

[matt8707]

Yeah I don't mean yaml config errors. Seems to be an Issue with synology nas somehow. Either way I just tried ha-dockermon and it works as expected.

But it would be nice to have in docker_monitor so I don't have to run both.