Docker Container

[Kukielka58]

Hey there!

I was thinking about a way to easily host MagicMirror and display the webpage on any device in the home network.
First thing that came to my mind, why not a Docker container for the Server-Only application?
Would be a really smooth way to host magicmirror on say… a homeserver, and use a rpi zero or any other network capable device to display the webpage in kiosk mode.

Let me know what you think! :)

[strawberry 3.141]

@Kukielka58 there will be docker support in the next version

https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/pull/673

[Kukielka58]

@strawberry-3.141 well, that was unexpected… Good for me tho!
Thanks alot! :)

[karsten13]

Hi,
trying to work with docker after the release of MM v.2.1.1.

The documentation says to start docker with:

docker run  -d \
			--publish 80:8080 \
			--restart always \
			--volume ~/magic_mirror/config:/opt/magic_mirror/config \
			--volume ~/magic_mirror/modules:/opt/magic_mirror/modules \
			--name magic_mirror \
			MichMich/MagicMirror

That doesn’t work, so google helped and this is working:

docker run  -d \
			--publish 80:8080 \
			--restart always \
			--volume ~/magic_mirror/config:/opt/magic_mirror/config \
			--volume ~/magic_mirror/modules:/opt/magic_mirror/modules \
			--name magic_mirror \
			randyramsaywack/magicmirror

Now docker ps tells me that all is running but i can’t see the site in my browser.
I tried localhost:8080 and localhost:8183, doesn’t work.

The documentation says to update the config with the Docker Host IP address.
So I tried to get this with

# As of Docker v1.3 you can attach to a bash shell
docker exec -it  2e23d01384ac  bash
# That drops you into a bash shell then use the 'ip' command to grab the addr
root@2e23d01384ac:/# ip add | grep global
    inet 172.17.0.1/16 scope global eth0

but inserting this in whitelist still doesn’t work.

May someone here knows what I’m doing wrong …

Thanks,

Karsten.

[karsten13]

Update: I found no valid mm container in the docker store.

You can build your own docker image locally with

docker build -t magic_mirror .

and run it with

docker run  -d --publish 8080:8080 --restart always --volume ~/magic_mirror/config:/opt/magic_mirror/config --volume ~/magic_mirror/modules:/opt/magic_mirror/modules --name magic_mirror magic_mirror

and open it in your browser with

http://localhost:8080/

Be aware of this issue.

Karsten.