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MM Server Mode in Docker on Raspberry

  • Serge

    Good day, Ladies and Gentlemen,

    Following instructions at https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror and https://github.com/bastilimbach/docker-MagicMirror.

    The following steps has been done:

    1. Downloaded and flashed to SD card latest clean Raspbian Stretch with desktop (kernel version 4.14) from raspberry.org.
    2. Connected Raspberry to WiFi network.
    3. Installed Docker by executing
    curl -sSL https://get.docker.com | sh
    1. Get Docker autostart
    sudo systemctl enable docker
    1. added member to docker’s group
    sudo usermod -aG docker pi
    1. Reboot system to changes take place
    sudo reboot
    1. Downloaded container with magicmirror for raspberry
    docker pull bastilimbach/docker-magicmirror:raspberry
    1. Executed container start according to instructions at MM docker page:
    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 \
	bastilimbach/docker-magicmirror:raspberry
    1. Created config.js file in “/home/pi/magic_mirror/config”
    sudo nano config.js

    1. Edited config.js in “/home/pi/magic_mirror/config” to the following lines:

          var config = {
    	address: "0.0.0.0", // Address to listen on, can be:
    	                      // - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
    	                      // - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
    	                      // - "", "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
    	                      // Default, when address config is left out, is "localhost"
    	port: 8080,
    	ipWhitelist: [], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
    	                                                       // or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
    	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
    	                                                       // or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
    	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],
    if (typeof module !== "undefined") { module.exports = config; }
    
    	language: "en",
    	timeFormat: 24,
    	units: "metric",
    
    	modules: [
    		{
    			module: "alert",
    		},
    		{
    			module: "updatenotification",
    			position: "top_bar"
    		},
    		{
    			module: "clock",
    			position: "top_left"
    		},
    		// OTHER MODULES CONFIGURATIONS DELETED HERE FOR SIMPLICITY
    	]
    
    };
    
    /*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
    if (typeof module !== "undefined") {module.exports = config;}

    2. Reboot the system

    sudo reboot
    1. Checked IP addresses
    ifconfig

    pi@raspberrypi:/ $ ifconfig
docker0: flags=4163  mtu 1500
        inet 172.17.0.1  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 172.17.255.255
        inet6 fe80::36c7:71e6:4c9c:d8d9  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether 02:42:50:41:f1:09  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 13  bytes 1775 (1.7 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 174  bytes 40644 (39.6 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

eth0: flags=4099  mtu 1500
        ether b8:27:eb:fd:40:7d  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

veth0275d60: flags=4163  mtu 1500
        inet 169.254.222.123  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 169.254.255.255
        inet6 fe80::6069:90ff:fec9:a75a  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether 62:69:90:c9:a7:5a  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 13  bytes 1957 (1.9 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 350  bytes 82319 (80.3 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlan0: flags=4163  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.43.78  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.43.255
        inet6 fe80::fff4:43e5:edc6:cc9e  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether b8:27:eb:a8:15:28  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 4833  bytes 3587709 (3.4 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 4613  bytes 610563 (596.2 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
    1. Tried to connect by a local Chromium to the MM server by entering the following addresses into browser’s address line:
    127.0.0.1:8080
localhost:8080
127.0.0.1:80
localhost:80

    Got in browser:

    This site can’t be reached The connection was reset. ERR_CONNECTION_RESET
    1. Tried to connect from phone which is connected to the same WiFi network via browser by enetring to the Browser’s address line:
    192.168.43.78:8080
192.168.43.78:80

    Result is the same,

    This site can’t be reached The connection was reset. ERR_CONNECTION_RESET

    For reference, list of files and folders in home/pi/magic_mirror

    pi@raspberrypi:~/magic_mirror $ ls -R
.:
config  modules

./config:
config.js  config.js.sample

./modules:
default  node_modules  README.md

./modules/default:
alert  calendar  clock  compliments  currentweather  defaultmodules.js  helloworld  newsfeed  updatenotification  weather  weatherforecast

./modules/default/alert:
alert.js  classie.js  modernizr.custom.js  notificationFx.js  ns-default.css  README.md  translations

./modules/default/alert/translations:
bg.json  da.json  de.json  en.json  es.json  fr.json  hu.json  nl.json  ru.json

./modules/default/calendar:
calendar.css  calendarfetcher.js  calendar.js  debug.js  node_helper.js  README.md  vendor

./modules/default/calendar/vendor:
ical.js

./modules/default/calendar/vendor/ical.js:
example.js  ical.js  index.js  LICENSE  node-ical.js  NOTICE  package.json  readme.md  test

./modules/default/calendar/vendor/ical.js/test:
test10.ics  test11.ics  test1.ics  test2.ics  test3.ics  test4.ics  test5.ics  test6.ics  test7.ics  test8.ics  test9.ics  test.js

./modules/default/clock:
clock.js  clock_screenshot.png  clock_styles.css  faces  README.md

./modules/default/clock/faces:
face-001.svg  face-002.svg  face-003.svg  face-004.svg  face-005.svg  face-006.svg  face-007.svg  face-008.svg  face-009.svg  face-010.svg  face-011.svg  face-012.svg

./modules/default/compliments:
compliments.js  compliments_screenshot.png  README.md

./modules/default/currentweather:
currentweather.css  currentweather.js  README.md  weather_screenshot.png

./modules/default/helloworld:
helloworld.js  helloworld.njk  README.md

./modules/default/newsfeed:
fetcher.js  newsfeed.js  newsfeed_screenshot.png  node_helper.js  README.md  translations

./modules/default/newsfeed/translations:
de.json  en.json  es.json  fr.json

./modules/default/updatenotification:
node_helper.js  README.md  updatenotification.js

./modules/default/weather:
current.njk  current.png  forecast.njk  forecast.png  providers  README.md  weather.css  weather.js  weatherobject.js  weatherprovider.js

./modules/default/weather/providers:
darksky.js  openweathermap.js  README.md

./modules/default/weatherforecast:
forecast_screenshot.png  README.md  weatherforecast.css  weatherforecast.js

./modules/node_modules:
node_helper

./modules/node_modules/node_helper:
index.js

    Could anyone advise what I am doing wrong here?

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  • S

    @Serge said in MM Server Mode in Docker on Raspberry:

    docker run -d
    –publish 80:8080 \

    is the container running?
    do

      docker ps

    because the docker run did

    docker run  -d \
	--publish 80:8080 \

    the way to access is thru port 80 on the host machine…
    (no other app is trying to use port 80 already, right?, webserver)

    also,
    typically --volume doesn’t like relative file system links

    --volume ~/magic_mirror/config
    0 Serge 1 Reply
  • Serge

    @sdetweil
    thanx. I have put into container RUN command direct links

    --volume /home/pi/magic_mirror/config

    instead of relative ones

    --volume ~/magic_mirror/config

    So the RUN command looked like:

    docker run  -d \
--publish 80:8080 \
--restart always \
--volume /home/pi/magic_mirror/config:/opt/magic_mirror/config \
--volume /home/pi/magic_mirror/modules:/opt/magic_mirror/modules \
--name magic_mirror \
bastilimbach/docker-magicmirror:raspberry

    I also changed config, as I understood I should wrote port 80 there, so m,y config.js is the following:

    var config = {
    	address: "0.0.0.0", // Address to listen on, can be:
    	                      // - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
    	                      // - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
    	                      // - "", "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
    	                      // Default, when address config is left out, is "localhost"
    	port: 80,
    	ipWhitelist: [], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
    	                                                       // or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
    	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
    	                                                       // or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
    	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],
    if (typeof module !== "undefined") { module.exports = config; }
    
    	language: "en",
    	timeFormat: 24,
    	units: "metric",
    
    	modules: [
    		{
    			module: "alert",
    		},
    		{
    			module: "updatenotification",
    			position: "top_bar"
    		},
    		{
    			module: "clock",
    			position: "top_left"
    		},
    		// OTHER MODULES CONFIGURATIONS DELETED HERE FOR SIMPLICITY
    	]
    
    };
    
    /*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
    if (typeof module !== "undefined") {module.exports = config;}

    I have did once more all the steps

    Here is log from terminal

    pi@raspberrypi:/ $ docker run  -d \
> --publish 80:8080 \
> --restart always \
> --volume /home/pi/magic_mirror/config:/opt/magic_mirror/config \
> --volume /home/pi/magic_mirror/modules:/opt/magic_mirror/modules \
> --name magic_mirror \
> bastilimbach/docker-magicmirror:raspberry
37638fe6e1d0dee6b3ff9973c8ec7e2c7d6b0fa71b4c095e94738b197387074e
pi@raspberrypi:/ $ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                                       COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                  NAMES
37638fe6e1d0        bastilimbach/docker-magicmirror:raspberry   "/opt/docker-entrypo…"   11 seconds ago      Up 7 seconds        0.0.0.0:80->8080/tcp   magic_mirror
pi@raspberrypi:/ $ cd /home/pi/magic_mirror/config
pi@raspberrypi:~/magic_mirror/config $ sudo nano config.js
pi@raspberrypi:~/magic_mirror/config $ cd /
pi@raspberrypi:/ $ ifconfig
docker0: flags=4163  mtu 1500
        inet 172.17.0.1  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 172.17.255.255
        inet6 fe80::5b8a:414d:261e:c2f3  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether 02:42:cf:fa:cf:16  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 12  bytes 1601 (1.5 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 170  bytes 28294 (27.6 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

eth0: flags=4099  mtu 1500
        ether b8:27:eb:fd:40:7d  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

veth2d3c6a7: flags=4163  mtu 1500
        inet 169.254.32.50  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 169.254.255.255
        inet6 fe80::ef51:3415:a096:b052  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether 9a:4f:36:79:b3:72  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 4  bytes 651 (651.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 127  bytes 19147 (18.6 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlan0: flags=4163  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.43.78  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.43.255
        inet6 fe80::fff4:43e5:edc6:cc9e  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether b8:27:eb:a8:15:28  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 13597  bytes 14840294 (14.1 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 11414  bytes 1524830 (1.4 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

pi@raspberrypi:/ $ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                                       COMMAND                  CREATED              STATUS              PORTS                  NAMES
37638fe6e1d0        bastilimbach/docker-magicmirror:raspberry   "/opt/docker-entrypo…"   About a minute ago   Up About a minute   0.0.0.0:80->8080/tcp   magic_mirror
pi@raspberrypi:/ $

    When I trying to reach through
    localhost:80, 127.0.0.1:80 the browser returns

    This site can’t be reached The connection was reset.Try:
Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
ERR_CONNECTION_RESET

    When I am trying to reach through the address
    localhost:8080, 127.0.0.1:8080

    This site can’t be reached 127.0.0.1 refused to connect.
Try: Checking the connection, Checking the proxy and the firewall
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

    So the errors are different (connection is reset and refused, respectively).
    What else should I check , @sdetweil could you please advice me?

    0 S 1 Reply
  • S

    @Serge ok, so you changed the magicmirror config to use port 80 inside the container
    your run command -p should be

    -p host_port:container_port
so
-p 80:80

    requests to the host port 80 are forwarded to the container port 80

    to make sure that MM in the container is working

    do

    docker inspect 37638fe6e1d0 | grep -i -m 1 \"ipaddress

    and look for the ip address assigned to the container
    should be

    "IPAddress": "172.17.0.???

    ??? is most likely 2

    then use your local system browser to go to

    http://172.17.0.???:80

    skipping the port forwarding

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