Home assistant add-on: Paperless NGX
⚠️ It is recommended to use this new addon (https://github.com/BenoitAnastay/home-assistant-addons-repository). It is more robust and has more functions. ⚠️
Migration (thanks @eikeja) :
- Install the new addon
- Make a backup of the old Paperless directory. In my case "/addon_configs/db21ed7f_paperless_ng"
- View the folder structure of the new instance, assign files from the old instance to the folders of the new instance.
Start new Paperless - all data is there!
Folder assignment: /addon_configs/db21ed7f_paperless_ng/data → /addon_configs/ca5234a0_paperless-ngx/data
/addon_configs/db21ed7f_paperless_ng/media → /share/paperless
💖 Support development
I maintain this and other Home Assistant add-ons in my free time: keeping up with upstream changes, HA changes, and testing on real hardware takes a lot of time (and some money). I use around 5-10 of my >110 addons so regularly I install test machines (and purchase some test services such as vpn) that I don't use myself to troubleshoot and improve the addons
If this add-on saves you time or makes your setup easier, I would be very grateful for your support !
Addon informations
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About
Paperless NGX is a document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper.
Alternative quality addon : https://github.com/BenoitAnastay/home-assistant-addons-repository/tree/main/paperless-ngx
Configuration
Use the add-on env_vars option to pass extra environment variables (uppercase or lowercase names). See https://github.com/alexbelgium/hassio-addons/wiki/Add-Environment-variables-to-your-Addon-2 for details.
Default username:password is admin:admin. Once logged in, you can change it from within the administration panel.
Options can be configured through two ways :
- Addon options
PGID: user
GPID: user
localdisks: sda1 #put the hardware name of your drive to mount separated by commas, or its label. ex. sda1, sdb1, MYNAS...
networkdisks: "<//SERVER/SHARE>" # list of smbv2/3 servers to mount (optional)
cifsusername: "username" # smb username (optional)
cifspassword: "password" # smb password (optional)
CONFIG_LOCATION: Location of the config.yaml (see below)
OCRLANG: eng fra #Any language can be set from this page (always three letters) [here](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Data-Files#data-files-for-version-400-november-29-2016).
TZ: Europe/Paris # Sets a specific timezone
- Config.yaml
Custom env variables can be added to the config.yaml file referenced in the addon options. Full env variables can be found here : https://paperless-ngx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration.html. It must be entered in a valid yaml format, that is verified at launch of the addon.
Installation
The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other add-on.
- Add my add-ons repository to your home assistant instance (in supervisor addons store at top right, or click button below if you have configured my HA)
- Install this add-on.
- Click the
Savebutton to store your configuration. - Set the add-on options to your preferences
- Start the add-on.
- Check the logs of the add-on to see if everything went well.
- Open the webUI and adapt the software options
Integration with HA
No specific integration, it is a self hosted system
Support
Create an issue on github

