openHAB Docker Containers

Repository for building docker containers for openHAB (Home Automation Server).

Comments, suggestions and contributions are welcome!

Image Variants

openhab/openhab:<architecture>-<[on|off]line>

• amd64: online, offline
• armhf: online, offline
• arm64: online, offline

If you are unsure about what your needs are, you probably want to use openhab/openhab:amd64-online.

prebuilt Docker Images can be found here: Docker Images

Usage

Important To be able to use UPnP for discovery the container needs to be started with --net=host.

The following will run openHAB in demo mode on the host machine:

docker run -it --name openhab --net=host openhab/openhab:amd64-online server

NOTE Although this is the simplest method to getting openHAB up and running, but it is not the preferred method. To properly run the container, please specify a host volume for the conf and userdata directory:

docker run \
        --name openhab \
        --net=host \
        -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
        -v /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro \
        -v /opt/openhab/conf:/openhab/conf \
        -v /opt/openhab/userdata:/openhab/userdata \
        -d \
        --restart=always \
        openhab/openhab:amd64-online

or with docker-compose.yml

---
openhab:
  image: 'openhab/openhab:amd64-online'
  restart: always
  ports:
    - "8080:8080"
    - "8443:8443"
    - "5555:5555"
  net: "host"
  volumes:
    - '/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro'
    - '/etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro'
    - '/opt/openhab/userdata:/openhab/userdata'
    - '/opt/openhab/conf:/openhab/conf'
  command: "server"

then start with docker-compose up -d

Accessing the console docker exec -it openhab console

Debug Mode

You can start the container with the command docker run -it openhab/openhab debug to get into the debug shell.

Environment variables

• OPENHAB_HTTP_PORT=8080
• OPENHAB_HTTPS_PORT=8443
• EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS

Parameters

• -p 8080 - the port of the webinterface
• -v /openhab/conf - openhab configs
• -v /openhab/userdata - openhab userdata directory
• --device=/dev/ttyUSB0 - attach your devices like RFXCOM or Z-Wave Sticks to the container

Building the image

Checkout the github repository and then run these commands:

$ docker build -t openhab/openhab .
$ docker run -it openhab/openhab server

Contributing

Contribution guidelines

License

When not explicitly set, files are placed under EPL license.