OVS Changes #3 - spinning up Home Assistant in a Docker Container

Now that I know how to connect a Docker Container to a specific bridge through the OVS, it's time to spin up an example.  I am trying to get into Home Automation and I have settled on the use of Home Assistant (http://www.home-assistant.io).  I am going to be reporting more on the use of this controller since it will pretty much control what I do within my house.

I have settled on the use of Z-Wave Plus components throughout the house because of the added distance and mesh connection improvements.  Home Assistant gives me the flexibility to connect to all sorts of things that normally don't go together because you know business.  Every company out there wants to do there own thing and control the whole market.  I'm not buying it if I can't use it with other companies products that have a capability I want.

I am going to first spin it up on the Experimental vlan until I am able to configure everything the way that I want.  I am intending on using OVS to connect ways of having devices on separate vlans and integrating them within the home system.  Anyway, that is the plan.

According to https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/installation/docker/, I have to do the following on Ubuntu:

$ docker run -d --name="home-assistant" -v /path/to/your/config:/config -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro --net=host homeassistant/home-assistant

Except in my case I need to have the container attached to a specific OVS bridge, so:

$ docker run -d --name="home-assistant" -v /path/to/your/config:/config -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro --net=host homeassistant/home-assistant

Update: well that didn't work out as planned.  I sent the following commands:

$ docker run -d --name="home-assistant" -v <my_HA_directory>:/config -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro --net=none homeassistant/home-assistant

$ ovs-docker add-port <my_ovs_bridge> eth1 home-assistant --ipaddress=<home-assistant-ip>/24

What I ended up with was the home assistant available on every vlan that was in the ubuntu server.  I only want it on the <my_ovs_bridge>.  So what do I do to get it there?
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I've gone overboard with the SD Cards

I was sitting at my kitchen table last night getting all of my RPi SD cards organized.  I just realized that I have gone overboard - I now have a total of 70 plus cards that do various things and are in various levels of completion.  Do you think I have a case of hoarder fever?  Must needs to reuse cards that I haven't touched in a while.  I know it is that many cards since I have all of them numbered.  Good grief!!