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Home Assistant, OpenHAB, Node-RED, ioBroker, MotionEye Containerized (Podman)

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Installation through Podman on CentOS8​

Home Assistant​

podman pull homeassistant/home-assistant:stable
mkdir -p /opt/homeassistant/{config}
chmod -R 775 /opt/homeassistant
podman run -d --rm --privileged --net=host --name='home-assistant' -e 'TZ=Europe/Berlin' -v /opt/homeassistant/config:/config homeassistant/home-assistant:stable

There seems to be an issue with Podman - or the way I am using it. I have to run the container privileged to be able to write to the volume. Google did not help me solve this 'issue', yet.

podman start home-assistant
podman stop home-assistant

Node-RED​

podman pull nodered/node-red
mkdir -p /opt/nodered/{data}
chmod -R 775 /opt/nodered
chown 1000:1000 -R /opt/nodered 
podman run -d --rm --privileged --net=host -v /opt/nodered/data:/data --name nodered nodered/node-red
podman start nodered
podman stop nodered

Theming​

cd /opt/nodered/data
npm install @node-red-contrib-themes/midnight-red

Add the following to the editorTheme section of your settings.js:

editorTheme: {
    projects: {
            // To enable the Projects feature, set this value to true
            enabled: false
    }
}

Change to ->

// Customising the editor
    editorTheme: {
        page: {
            css: '/opt/nodered/data/node_modules/@node-red-contrib-themes/midnight-red/theme.css'
        }
    }

OpenHAB​

groupadd -g 9001 openhab
useradd -g 9001 openhab
usermod -a -G openhab myownuser
mkdir -p /opt/openhab/{openhab_addons,openhab_conf,openhab_userdata}
chmod -R 775 /opt/openhab
podman run \
        --name openhab \
        --net=host \
        --privileged \
         --rm \
        -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
        -v /opt/openhab/openhab_addons:/openhab/addons \
        -v /opt/openhab/openhab_conf:/openhab/conf \
        -v /opt/openhab/openhab_userdata:/openhab/userdata \
        -d \
        openhab/openhab:latest

OpenHAB CLI​

docker exec -it openhab
/openhab/runtime/bin/client -p habopen

Updating the Image​

Use the following steps to update the docker image and all installed add-ons.

Stop the container:

docker stop openhab

Delete the container:

docker rm openhab

Delete the contents of /opt/openhab/userdata/cache and /opt/openhab/userdata/tmp

rm -rf /opt/openhab/userdata/cache
rm -rf /opt/openhab/userdata/tmp

Pull down the latest image:

docker pull openhab/openhab:`latest`

Restart the container using the full command above.

ioBroker​

podman pull iobroker/iobroker:latest

And and run it:

podman run \
  --net=host \
  --privileged \
  --rm \
  --name iobroker \
  -v /opt/iobroker:/opt/iobroker \
  -v /opt/iobroker/home:/home/iobroker \
  --detach=true \
  iobroker/iobroker:latest

MotionEye​

podman pull ccrisan/motioneye:master-amd64

And and run it:

podman run --name='motioneye' \
    --net=host \
    --privileged \
    --rm \
    --hostname='motioneye' \
    -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
    -v /opt/motioneye:/etc/motioneye \
    -v /opt/motioneye/lib:/var/lib/motioneye \
    --security-opt label=disable \
    --detach=true \
    ccrisan/motioneye:master-amd64