Tasmoadmin: Run SonWEB as a docker container on Synology DSM

[MimbaMonkeyHouse]

I've been running SonWEB from a PC and love the effort, but need the PC off. I tried to run the RPI Ubuntu docker image on a Synology DSM with no success. If anyone more abled can contribute, help would be much appreciated.
I'll contribute as I can... namely translation!

[RaymondMouthaan]

Hello @MimbaMonkeyHouse,

The images (rpi-sonweb-alpine and rpi-sonweb-ubuntu) available are only for raspberry pi's since they are build for the arm architecture, they will not work on Synology DSM. I have myself also a Synology NAS, which has a different architecture (x86) than raspberry pi's.
If there is enough interest I am willing to build an image for Synology as well.

[MimbaMonkeyHouse]

Hey @RaymondMouthaan,

Yea, I've actually tried to run these images on my Synology and it obviously did not work.
I'd really love a Syno compatible image. Such an image would work with any x86 platform and would definitely add value to SonWEB.
At the moment, it's a bit of a pain to have a PC running when I need to use this... I'd love to use this in a Syno docker as I could stop the docker image when not used directly from Home Assistant (via Dockermon) and start it when updates need to be made! Unfortunately, my skills are not there (yet!) to make one myself!

[RaymondMouthaan]

@MimbaMonkeyHouse i'll dig into building an image for x86_64 as soon as I can and inform you about is a soon its ready.

@reloxx13 can you assign this to me and also change the label to Enhancement? :)

[RaymondMouthaan]

@MimbaMonkeyHouse After spending some hours of research how to build multi architecture docker images ... I've found a solution that works :)

Install SonWEB on a Synology NAS running Docker

• Login to DSM
• Go To Docker -> Image (for unknown reason it doesn't find the image using the registry)
• Click Add -> Add from Url
• Copy / Paste this url : https://hub.docker.com/r/raymondmm/sonweb/
• Leave all other fields blank
• Click Add

• Choose Tag: latest and Click Select

After a couple of seconds it downloads the image and you are ready to deploy a SonWEB Container.

• Make sure you create a host directory which you link to the container to persist your SonWEB data (/host/data:/data)

Let me know if it works for you!

[MimbaMonkeyHouse]

I shall try this straight away and comment here

[MimbaMonkeyHouse]

Good news: we can now access the image via the registry.
Bad news: the container crashes on both my machine. Defined the host directory as advised. Tried to run as both host and bridge... No luck!
Here is the log:

date | stream | content
-- | -- | --
2018-03-02 08:02:28 | stdout | AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 172.17.0.4. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
2018-03-02 08:02:28 | stdout | Starting apache...
2018-03-02 08:02:28 | stdout | Clearing any old processes...
2018-03-02 08:02:28 | stdout | NOTICE: Change 'ServerName' globally and hide server message by setting environment variable >> 'SERVER_NAME=your.server.name' in docker command or docker-compose file
2018-03-02 08:01:04 | stdout | AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 172.17.0.4. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
2018-03-02 08:01:03 | stdout | Starting apache...
2018-03-02 08:01:03 | stdout | Clearing any old processes...
2018-03-02 08:01:03 | stdout | NOTICE: Change 'ServerName' globally and hide server message by setting environment variable >> 'SERVER_NAME=your.server.name' in docker command or docker-compose file

Not sure what's not right. What port is this set to/accessible from? Maybe, I've got a clash as few servers are running (Home Assistant, Grafana, Influxdb, Plex, Dockermon, etc)...

[RaymondMouthaan]

Yes, I saw too this morning that looking up using the registry works :-)

Above doesn't show any signs of crashing. AH00558 is just warning but can be avoided if you add an environment variable APACHE_SERVER_NAME=mysonweb.mydomain , but without it it should work. Have you tried accessing SonWeb using http://: ?

[MimbaMonkeyHouse]

Beh, I got it working... Sorry about the stress! Am now logging in.
Thanks so much for this. Owe you a beer or let me know if I can help!

[RaymondMouthaan]

Some more screenshots ...

[MimbaMonkeyHouse]

Yup, works great. Just used self-update and played around with some setings of my many Sonoffs... Autoscan almost detected all my devices. Now I'll check the French translation: sure I'll find some issues!

[RaymondMouthaan]

Great the hear you have it working 💯 . I guess this issue can be closed now :-)

[MimbaMonkeyHouse]

Yup, all is good

[ascillato]

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