Running openHAB 2 in Docker

[jeshab (Jeremy)]

@rlkoshak

• The Exec binding is likely not going to be very useful. The container has very little installed (e.g. no Python, ping, hping3, etc.) and almost no access to the host’s file system which eliminates most of the benefit from this binding. To get around this run an external service on the host that can receive commands from OH via REST or MQTT.

Update

I moved my initial post to a separate topic per @rlkoshak recommendation.

Running Exec binding scripts in Docker using custom image

I recently migrated my install to use a docker container and I have a bunch of Python & Shell scripts running via the Exec binding. Since one of the limitation of the official openHAB docker image renders the Exec binding pretty much useless and I didn’t want to make each script an external service, I have created a custom docker image based of the openHAB official one to include the necessary scripting tools. I am using docker compose to build/start up the custom image. This tutorial should be…