It is originally made for, and tested on a Synology Disk Station 1515+ with DSM 6 and Docker-package installed. But it should also work on other systems with Docker installed!

Version 4 now supports running the Image in Docker on the following architectures: amd64, armv7hf, aarch64. Feel free to ask for more architectures by opening an github-issue.

Important

The new v4 comes again with a new major node-version (node10)! If you are updating an existing Installation you have to perform some additional steps inside ioBroker! After upgrading your iobroker-container you have to call "npm rebuild" or "reinstall.sh" (when js-controller > v1.5 "reinstall.js") for recompileing your installation for the use with node10! For Details see official ioBroker-documentation: EN | DE. Make backup first!

Installation & usage

A detailed tutorial (german, based on v3.0.0) can be found here: https://buanet.de. Please notice that the old tutorial is outdated and does no longer work!

For discussion and support please visit ioBroker-forum-thread or use the comments section at the linked tutorial. Please do not contact me directly for any support-reasons. Every support question should be answered in a public place. Thank you.

Special settings and features

The following will give a short overview.

Environment variables

Since v3 is possible to set some environment variables to configure a new container.

env	default	description
ADMINPORT	8081	Sets ioBroker-adminport on startup (beta)
AVAHI	false	Installs and activates avahi-daemon for supporting yahka-adapter, can be "true" or "false"
LANG	de_DE.UTF‑8	The following locales are pre-generated: de_DE.UTF-8, en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE	de_DE:de	The following locales are pre-generated: de_DE:de, en_US:en
LC_ALL	de_DE.UTF-8	The following locales are pre-generated: de_DE.UTF-8, en_US.UTF-8
PACKAGES	vi	Installs additional packages to your container, needed by some adapters, packages should be seperated by whitespace like "package1 package2 package3"
REDIS	false	Activates redis as states-db on startup, fill with "hostname:port" to set redis connection otherwise use "false"(beta)
SETGID	1000	For security reasons it might be useful to specify the gid of the containers iobroker user to match an existing group on the docker host
SETUID	1000	For security reasons it might be useful to specify the uid of the containers iobroker user to match an existing user on the docker host
TZ	Europe/Berlin	All valid Linux-timezones
USBDEVICES	none	Sets relevant permissions on mounted devices like "/dev/ttyACM0", for more than one device separate with ";" like "/dev/ttyACM0;/dev/ttyACM01" (beta)
ZWAVE	false	Will install openzwave to support zwave-adapter, can be "true" or "false"

Mounting Folder/ Volume

It is possible to mount an empty folder to /opt/iobroker during first startup of the container. The Startupscript will check this folder and restore content if it is empty. In actual beta (v4.0.3beta) it is also possible mount a folder with an iobroker backup (created with backitup-adapter) named like this: "iobroker_2020_01_06-01_09_10_backupiobroker.tar.gz". The startup script will then detect this backup and restore it during the start of the container. Plese see logs when starting the container for more details.

It is absolutely recommended to use a mounted folder or persistent volume for /opt/iobroker folder!

You can also mount a folder containing an existing ioBroker-installation (e.g. when moving an existing installation to docker).

Permission Fixer

After some issues with permissions related to the use of a dedicated user for ioBroker, I added some code for fixing permissions on container startup. This might take a few minutes on first startup. Please take a look at the logs and be patient!

Changelog

v4.0.3beta (2020-01-06)

added support to restore backup on startup
small fixes according to "docker best practices"
v4.0.2beta (2019-12-10)
- added env for activating redis
- enhancements in startupscript and dockerfile
v4.0.1beta (2019-11-25)
- added env for iobroker admin port
- added env for usb-devices (setting permissions)
- updateing prerequisites for iobroker installation
- some small codefixes

v4.0.0 (2019-10-25)

v3.1.4beta (2019-10-23)
- added env for zwave support
v3.1.3beta (2019-10-17)
- enhanced logging of startup-script
- multiarch support (amd64, aarch64, armv7hf)
v3.1.2beta (2019-09-03)
- using node 10 instead of node 8
v3.1.1beta (2019-09-02)
- adding env for setting uid/ gid for iobroker-user

v3.1.0 (2019-08-21)

v3.0.3beta (2019-08-21)
- switching base image from "debian:latest" to "debian:stretch"
v3.0.2beta (2019-06-13)
- using gosu instead of sudo
- changing output of ioBroker logging
v3.0.1beta (2019-05-18)
- ~~switching back to iobroker-daemon for startup~~

v3.0.0 (2019-05-09)

v2.0.6beta (2019-04-14)
- added some additional logging
- fixing some issues for languag env
- added permission fixing on first start
v2.0.5beta (2019-02-09)
- added ENV to dockerfile
- added EXPOSE for admin
- final testing
v2.0.4beta (2019-01-28)
- added support for env variables "avahi" and "packages"
- moving avahi-daemon installation into avahi startup script
- added script for installing optional packages
- optimizing logging output
v2.0.3beta (2019-01-24)
- added support for running ioBroker under iobroker user
- optimizing logging output
- optimizing scripts
v2.0.2beta (2019-01-23)
- optimizing and rearraged dockerfile
- changes for new ioBroker install script
- added restoring for empty mounted /opt/iobroker folder
- some more small fixes
v2.0.1beta (2019-01-07)
- some changes for supporting other docker-environments than synology ds

v2.0.0 (2018-12-05)

v1.2.2beta (2018-12-05)
- using node8 instead of node6
- changes for new iobroker setup
v1.2.1beta (2018-09-12)
- added support for firetv-adapter

v1.2.0 (2018-08-21)

v1.1.3beta (2018-08-21)
- added ffmpeg-package for yahka to support webcams
v1.1.2beta (2018-04-04)
- added ENV for timezone issue
v1.1.1beta (2018-03-29)
- added wget package
- updated readme.md

v1.1.0 (2017-12-10)

v1.0.2beta (2017-12-10)
- changed startup call to fix restart issue
- fixed avahi startup issue
- fixed hostname issue
- added z-wave support
- added logging to /opt/scripts/docker_iobroker_log.txt
v1.0.1beta (2017-08-25)
- fixed locales issue

v1.0.0 (2017-08-22)

moved and renamed iobroker startup script
disabled iobroker deamon to (hopefully) fix restart issue
added some maintenance scripts

v0.2.1 (2017-08-16)

added libfontconfig package (for iobroker.phantomjs)
added gnupg2 package as prerequisite for installing node version 6

v0.2.0 (2017-06-04)

fixed startup issue in startup.sh
changed node version from 4 to 6

v0.1.2 (2017-03-14)

added libpcap-dev package (for iobroker.amazon-dash)

v0.1.1 (2017-03-10)

added git package

v0.1.0 (2017-03-08)

moved avahi-start.sh to seperate directory
fixed timezone issue (sets now timezone to Europe/Berlin)

v0.0.2 (2017-03-06)

added support for avahi-daemon (installation and autostart)

v0.0.1 (2017-01-31)

project started / initial release

License

MIT License

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Credits

Inspired by https://github.com/MehrCurry/docker-iobroker

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