In this thread we can discuss running Homey Self-Hosted Server on Linux. Installation Learn how to Install Homey Self-Hosted Server on Linux . Known Limitations None at this moment.

I literally asked how to make it work with Homey. To prevent questions like “send me the log or send us more info” I sent a log because I thought that somebody may say that I do it the wrong way and that I should use some sort of a plugin or other app to make it work with Homey. I asked on a Linux t…

Ah okay, if you’re asking how to make it work with Homey, my answer would be: get OTBR to start properly first. How to do that is off-topic for this forum.

I followed the instructions on how to update Self-Hosted-Service on Linux and now my old “Self-Hosted-Homey” is delete an make as a new SHS?! No Backup, nothing, the description is not correct. I have e new system without any devices, apps etc. this not an update. Anyone know what is going wrong? G…

I did not do the remove, just docker pull (as mentioned in the instruction) and docker compose down and then up. Seems to be running fine on the new version

ok thank you maybe Athom Homey should change that in her description. but for me its to late :man_shrugging:

It may be slightly different when using docker compose, I see the update instructions are different there.

The description states that the data is safe because it’s not in the container. That’s incorrect. So, how do I create a backup? The specified folder is empty :man_shrugging:

No data separately in ~/.homey-shs (or somewhere else if you configured that?). (I have created a cron job that do a nightly backup in a script performing docker pause, backup of data and then unpause on mine).

The job is executed by Linux itself? And the entire container is backed up? A short guide would be great.

I am somewhat familiar with linux, but not docker so I asked chatgp for advice. In the YML I am storing the data in a different place than default: volumes: - /srv/homey/data:/homey/user Script: bjornb@NUC:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/homey-backup.sh #!/bin/bash set -e BACKUP_DIR="/var/backups/homey…

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Peter_Kawa March 23, 2026, 11:11pm 35

Please don’t double post; if there’s a serious urgency, at least cross link to the other post.
I replied to your duplicate post

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