WARN[0000] The "he" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string

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Hi guys. I’m using docker-compose to run Home Assistant ecosystem, docker-compose.yaml provided at the end of the post.
This is my second stack with Home Assistant and additional containers. First one was run successfully for about 2 years. Few weeks ago I decided to start fresh from beginning (for some known to me reason, but it is irrelevant for this question here), and in new stack I have only 4 containers in summary. However, in both cases I had below message when executing docker-compose pull or docker-compose up -d (I’m executing mentioned commands from the directory where docker-compose.yaml file is):

WARN[0000] The "he" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.

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It is not a problem. all containers are working as expected, and everything is good, but I am just curious and want to learn what producing this message, since I didn’t defined any “he” variable in my docker-compose.yaml
Didn’t found answer by google-foo.

docker-compose.yaml:

version: '3'

services:

  homeassistant:
    container_name: hass
    image: homeassistant/home-assistant
    volumes:
      - ./hass:/config
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
#      - ./config/media:/media
#      - /var/log/fail2ban.log:/config/fail2ban-log/fail2ban.log
    devices:
      - /dev/ttyACM0:/dev/ttyACM0
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: host
    depends_on:
      - mariadb
      - mosquitto

  mariadb:
    image: linuxserver/mariadb
    container_name: mariadb
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: "${ROOT_PASSWORD}"
      MYSQL_DATABASE: ha_db
      MYSQL_USER: homeassistant
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: "${PASSWORD}"
      PUID: 0
      PGID: 0
    volumes:
      - ./mariadb:/config
    ports:
      - "3306:3306"

  mosquitto:
    image: eclipse-mosquitto
    container_name: mosquitto
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "1883:1883"
      - "1884:1884"
    volumes:
      - "./mosquitto/config:/mosquitto/config"
      - "./mosquitto/data:/mosquitto/data"
      - "./mosquitto/log:/mosquitto/log"
      - "./mosquitto/mosquitto-no-auth.conf:/mosquitto-no-auth.conf"
    environment:
      - TZ=Europe/Belgrade
    user: "${PUID}:${PGID}"

  esphome:
    container_name: esphome
    image: esphome/esphome
    volumes:
      - "./esphome:/config"
      - "/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro"
    restart: unless-stopped
    privileged: true
    network_mode: host

  vscode:
    container_name: vscode
    restart: unless-stopped
    image: linuxserver/code-server:latest
    environment:
      PASSWORD: "${PASSWORD}"
      SUDO_PASSWORD: "${PASSWORD}"
      TZ: "Europe/Belgrade"
    ports:
      - "8443:8443"
    volumes:
      - "./vscode:/config"
      - "./hass:/config/workspace"
      - "/root/docker-compose-hass-old/config:/config/workspace/hass-old"

.env file (obfuscated, sitting in same directory as docker-compose.yaml):

ROOT_PASSWORD=******************
PASSWORD=******************
PUID=0
PGID=0

Thanks upfront!

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Interesting because that was my first thought and I could get the same error message just by using a .env file like this:

test=${he}

My guess is that your password contains a dollar sign follwed by “he” and it is interpreted as a variable

PASSWORD=yourpassword$he

If you want to use dollar in the password in a .env file, you can use double dollars:

PASSWORD=yourpassword$$he

or probably the more familiar solution is using apostrophes as you would in bash:

PASSWORD='yourpassword$he'
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Hehe, you are right, one of my passwords was something like:

*******$he|*********

so it took the part from dollar sign to pipe character.
Put the password into the single quotes, topic solved, thank you very much.

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(It seems that we have no “mark post as solution” as on some other forums :unamused:, or I’m not see it.)