Home (HomeKit) in 2022 : best solution/approaches

[Jonas88 (Jonas)]

Hello

i cannot see homekit there …
Guess i will have to dig into docker even deeper …

What a shame net:host is not possible on docker mac.

EDIT: i found this thread:

Docker - OH 3 - Homekit

there are 2 steps / protocols: homekit binding advertise itself via mDNS protocol. this protocol requires support for broadcast (sending message to everyone) and port 5353. if it works you would see in as _hap._tcp. this what home app uses to find openHAB bring in first place _hap._tcp has the information about the IP address and port of the homekit binding (by default 9124). home app uses this information to connect to openHAB and to request accessory list. so, in your case the step 1 …

I also exposed 5353 in the docker config but it did nothing.
i do not even see openhab service in dns viewer …
But i can reach OH via Browser and even send commands to items through the console.

and my docker conf:

openhab:
    image: "openhab/openhab:milestone"
    container_name: openhab
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
      - "8443:8443"
      - 8101:8101
      # 8101 samsung tv
      - 8009:8009
      # 8009 chromecast (klingel)
      - 3671:3671
      #- 3671:3671/udp
      # 3671 knx router - set nat = true
      - 5007:5007
      # 5007 language protocol server
      - 5353:5353
      # 5353 mdns for homekit
      - 6524:6524/udp
      - 1012:1012
      - 9123:9123
      # 9123 Homekit
      - 123:123  
      # 123 ntp time server    
    volumes:
      - "./openhab/openhab_addons:/openhab/addons"
      - "./openhab/openhab_conf:/openhab/conf"
      - "./openhab/openhab_userdata:/openhab/userdata"
    environment:
      CRYPTO_POLICY: "unlimited"
      EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS: "-Duser.timezone=Europe/Berlin"
      OPENHAB_HTTP_PORT: "8080"
      OPENHAB_HTTPS_PORT: "8443"

Do i have to add the ip adress the container got assigned from docker into the config maybe?

here is some of the mdns logs (trace)

2022-12-14 15:12:06.478 [DEBUG] [ansport.mdns.internal.MDNSClientImpl] - Registering new service _openhab-server._tcp.local. at 172.18.0.10:8080 (334ba370b830.local.)
2022-12-14 15:12:06.487 [DEBUG] [ansport.mdns.internal.MDNSClientImpl] - Registering new service _openhab-server-ssl._tcp.local. at 172.18.0.10:8443 (334ba370b830.local.)
2022-12-14 15:12:07.060 [DEBUG] [ansport.mdns.internal.MDNSClientImpl] - ip address change: added [172.18.0.10/16], removed
2022-12-14 15:12:09.135 [DEBUG] [ansport.mdns.internal.MDNSClientImpl] - mDNS service has been stopped (334ba370b830.local.)
2022-12-14 15:12:09.165 [DEBUG] [ansport.mdns.internal.MDNSClientImpl] - mDNS service has been started (334ba370b830.local. for IP 172.18.0.10)
2022-12-14 15:12:09.168 [DEBUG] [ansport.mdns.internal.MDNSClientImpl] - Registering new service _openhab-server._tcp.local. at 172.18.0.10:8080 (334ba370b830.local.)
2022-12-14 15:12:09.175 [DEBUG] [ansport.mdns.internal.MDNSClientImpl] - Registering new service _openhab-server-ssl._tcp.local. at 172.18.0.10:8443 (334ba370b830.local.)