openLuup on Synology via Docker

[tsawyer]

Hi all.   I would like to start a thread dedicated to running openLuup on Synology via Docker.   I have successfully downloaded  the airedale/openluup/  docker and have it running with AltUI, but am running into the issue of non-persistence after stop/start and limited success with adding additional plug-ins (starting with DataYours). 

My initial questions are:

1) Can anyone share the docker run command that they are using to start their openLuup container?  I am wondering if my persistence issue has to do with lack of a volume specification in my run parameters.

2) For loading plug-ins, I am dropping the files into the /etc/cmh-ludl directory and reloading luup, but I don't see the plug-ins in the AltUI list after that.   Surely I am missing something real simple here and have searched the forums first of course, but to no avail.

Thanks in advance for the help!

[tsawyer]

And for reference - I am currently using the below to create my container ...

docker run -d --name="openluup" --restart="always" -e veraips="192.168.1.3" -v /volume1/docker/openLuup/files:/files:rw airedale/openluup


I also tried the below to try and see if it would help with persistence, but with limited success ....

docker run -d --name="openluup" --restart="always" -e veraips="192.168.1.3" -v /volume1/docker/openLuup/files:/files:rw -v /volume1/docker/openLuup/cmh-ludl:/etc/cmh-ludl:rw airedale/openluup

[akbooer]

I would like to start a thread dedicated to running openLuup on Synology via Docker.

Sounds like a good plan - there seems to be some interest.  Sadly, I have NO expertise in this area, so it's definitely self-help!

For loading plug-ins, I am dropping the files into the /etc/cmh-ludl directory and reloading luup, but I don't see the plug-ins in the AltUI list after that.   Surely I am missing something real simple here and have searched the forums first of course, but to no avail.

I have not implemented the data structures which allow AltUI to fully describe the installed plugins.  My experience (outside of Docker) is as per the attached screenshot.

[CudaNet]

If I recall correctly, jcsv75 successfully installed openLuup on a Synology NAS. Although, I don't have the specifics ...

[jcsv75]

If I recall correctly, jcsv75 successfully installed openLuup on a Synology NAS. Although, I don't have the specifics ...

Yep, that's true. I managed to get OpenLuup running in the docker image provided by Airedale. However, as you found out already the data is not persistent across reboots. I have been doing some reading on this topic and I am sure it must be possible to achieve data persistency according to this info: https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/dockervolumes/. Unfortunately my technical skills and time are the limiting factors here.

However I had succes with a slightly differerent approach. I installed phpvirtualbox on my synology NAS, (actually a Xpenology box built on the HP N54L server). Then, with the precious help of cudanet, I got Openluup installed on a virtual machine running Ubuntu. It's been running smoothly for about a month now and I can take the image and run it on any machine with Virtualbox installed.

[tsawyer]

I thought about running it directly on the Synology with either Debian Chroot or something similar, but I like the idea of the Docker option for the containment and portability of it.  This has started me down a new route where I am attempting to build my own docker container based on a a standard Debian docker image, then customizing it and putting everything into a new Docker build file to share with everyone.   I hope to share some good progress in the next week or so!

[jcsv75]

Ok sounds great. Happy to help testing if needed. I guess the key to making the image persistent is to figure out how to assign a writable volume to the docker image .


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[Aaron]

anyone successfully running openLUUP in Syno Docker?  Looks like there have been a ton of improvements in Syno Docker in the past year - data should persist across reboots fr as I know.

[lazyone]

I would like to see a Docker version of OpenLuup as well, but I would like to run it on UnRaid

[jcsv75]

Whilst I don't have a solution to run OpenLuup on Docker, I do have a solution to run OpenLuup very easily on a Synology NAS. The only thing that is needed is a reasonably powerfull NAS and the installation of PHPVirtualbox which can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpvirtualbox/. You can then import the ready made virtualbox image from Cudanet and update from there.

I have this running since over a year on a selfbuild Xpenology Nas with 16 GM RAM.

cheers,

Jacques

[Sender]

I have it running on a docker container. When I go to http://dockerip:80 I get "forbidden" should a website be displayed? Or should I do anything els before Altui is displayed? 

403 Forbidden
nginx/1.6.2

Edit... following the manual I get:
http://<YourIP>:3480/data_request?id=altui
(this takes about one minute and requires, of course, an internet connection.) If you want
to watch it working you can tail the log with tail -f LuaUPnP.log
This should load a functional ALTUI interface which should run when you access the URL
http://<YourIP>:3480/data_request?id=lr_ALTUI_Handler&command=home#
You will immediately be prompted to upgrade to the latest version (you don?t have to ?
again, it takes about a minute and will restart openLuup.) You should be able to exercise
all the ALTUI functionality through menus, etc., and simply see a single device (ALTUI) in
the system.

But I only see:
AltUI, amg0, Waiting Initial Data

and that never changes...