Homebridge

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud EX2
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hi,
Recently bought my EX2 Ultra, with 2x 4GB disks. using it mainly for Plex and iTunes server.
i am now trying to install homebridge on it to manage my different homekit or non-homekit devices. as anyone tried it? any suggestions/hint on how to do it? i have not been able to install nodejs sofar, wondrring about how i could leverage Docker if it is even possible

thx

Fab

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Hi,

I have never tried this. Let’s see if an experienced user can comment on this.

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I used docker to get it installed

docker create --name=homebridge --net=host -e PGID=1001 -e PUID=1001 --restart=always -v /mnt/HD/HD_a2/docker-config/homebridge-config:/homebridge -e TZ=Asia/Phnom_Penh oznu/homebridge

Just check out oznu/homebridge

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Hi… I tried to follow your instructions and those from oznu GitHub site, but I can’t make it work.
After installing using the following command:
_ docker create --name=homebridge --net=host -e PUID=500 -e PGID=1000 --restart=always -v /mnt/HD/HD_a2/docker-config/homebridge-config:/
homebridge -e TZ=America/Montreal -e HOMEBRIDGE_CONFIG_UI=1 oznu/homebridge_
, I have not been able to start the container. Every time I ran docker start homebridge, I got the same error message:

Error response from daemon: Cannot start container homebridge: [8] System error: exec format error
Error: failed to start containers: [homebridge]

(I also tried with root PGID and PUID, and without the Config UI)

Any idea why it does not work?

Fabrice

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make sure when you copy and paste there is no additional spaces in-between each command, make sure the drive and time location is correct for your install and also make sure you removed the old docker container/image

You can learn how to remove container then the docker image from that link

docker ps -a

docker rm -f ID_or_Name ID_or_Name

docker images -a

docker rmi -f Image

when you create docker image you can use the sudo command as well so

sudo docker create --name=homebridge --net=host -e PGID=1001 -e PUID=1001 --restart=always -v /mnt/HD/HD_a2/docker-config/homebridge-config:/homebridge -e TZ=Asia/Phnom_Penh oznu/homebridge

then do
sudo docker start homebridge

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I am actually using the “docker run” command as suggested on oznu/homebridge site, which tries to start the container after installing, and I have the same issue.
I am running docker as root, the config folder is own by root…
I cleaned both container and image before to restart the commands several times.

Still no chance.

2 quick questions for you:

  1. I can see you re using PUID=1000 : did you create a specific user to connect on SSH and run homebridge? (I am doing ssh as “root”)
  2. Do you have EX2 or EX2 Ultra? (I have Ultra)
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I think its because you are using the arm processor

I have the PR4100,

try his raspberry pi version since that uses ARM processor

docker run --net=host --name=homebridge oznu/homebridge:raspberry-pi

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Hey @kaiatkins,

Thanks so much for your help. I have tried the same @FabMtl was working on and per your last hint I tried the raspberry-pi version of oznu/homebridge. I got t installed both using docker run and docker start, both with and withoug sudo. In all cases though, I got the
Segmentation fault errors.

Segmentation fault starts to show up during installation of plugins… maybe there’s something wrong with that? As I also tried sudo it can’t be permissions, right?

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does anyone fix this problem?

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I unfortunately did not :frowning:

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I ended up installing Homebridge without Docker and got it running!

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@redtank How do you install Homebridge? I need to install Homebridge for controlling lights in my home. however I tried to install it with docker to mycloud mirror gen2. but I couldn’t. could you reply me how to do it? please help me

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Back after a few month… never been able to install the docker version of Homebridge on the EX2 Ultra.
@redtank: could you provide more info on how you install Homebrdige with Docker on EX2?

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Just wanna say thanks! This worked for me.

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Hello all
Homebridge suddenly stopped working for (EX 2 Ultra) and I think that was caused by the last firmware update of the NAS (5.26.300).
Is anyone else experiencing the same issue? Homebridge still is installed and running but it gets into a loop error with the following messages:

s6-svscan: warning: unable to iopause: Operation not permitted
s6-svscan: warning: executing into .s6-svscan/crash
s6-svscan crashed. Killing everything and exiting.

Any ideas what is happening? I literally changed nothing else!

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Trying to revive this topic.
Does anyone has any luck to run homebridge in a WD NAS machine? Please share, any information would be appreciated.

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Add this to your stack on portainer:

    security_opt:
      - seccomp:unconfined
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OMG THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! IT WORKED IMMEDIATELY! I CAN NOT THANK YOU ENOUGH! After all this pain and suffering it was that simple? I feel such a lamer!

If anyone else looking to get Homebridge running in Portainer/Docker installed on CloudOS 5 that my docker compose command:

version: '3'
services:
  homebridge:
    image: homebridge/homebridge:ubuntu
    container_name: homebridge
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - HOMEBRIDGE_CONFIG_UI_PORT=8581
    volumes:
      - homebridge:/homebridge
    security_opt:
      - seccomp:unconfined
volumes:
  homebridge:

Hope that helps also someone else.

@lourencosv you’ rock!

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