House Server Docker Setup

This is a unified docker-compose setup to run the following things in our life:

Smart Home Stuff

• A Zigbee bridge to control lights and such
• A Homebridge server to expose Zigbee stuff to HomeKit
• A HAP instance to control our skylight blinds
• A Zigbee2soco instance to control Sonos speakers via IKEA Symfonisk remotes

Network Stuff

• A UniFi controller
• A Grafana & Prometheus stack to graph all sorts of things
• A tailscale node
• A number of exporters that Prometheus uses as data sources

Various Stuff

• An RTL-SDR powered ADSB stack that publishes to flightradar24
• A dockerized version of the PiDP-11 emulator
• An AirPrint bridge for our ancient laser printer
• A simple Alpine-based sandbox for futzing around in
• Backups and proxy server for all of the above

All of this runs on a single RPi 4 (8GB) in our house, with quite a bit of extra room.

Setting up the Pi

Raw notes from the last time I set the box up. This is more of a 'note to self' section than anything prescriptive. YMMV etc.

• Set the RPi to boot from USB (instructions here)
• Install 64 bit raspbian on an sdcard
• Enable ssh on sdcard (touch ssh)
• Boot up from sdcard
• sudo apt-get install git
• move to USB
  • git clone https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone.git
  • ./rpi-clone sda -f2
  • reboot
• Vaidate that we rebooted from USB
• Run passwd, change to something hard (save in 1Password)
• run raspi-config
  • Set up i2c
  • Lower GPU memory to 16
  • Set hostname
  • Ensure the following is in /boot/config.txt

    [all]
    gpu_mem=16
    
    # turn off LEDs
    dtoverlay=act-led
    
    ##disable ACT LED
    dtparam=act_led_trigger=none
    dtparam=act_led_activelow=off
    
    ##disable PWR LED
    dtparam=pwr_led_trigger=none
    dtparam=pwr_led_activelow=off
    
    ##turn off ethernet port LEDs
    dtparam=eth_led0=4
    dtparam=eth_led1=4
    
    ##turn on/ off bluetooth
    dtoverlay=disable-bt
    
    ##turn on/off wifi
    dtoverlay=disable-wifi
    

  • reboot
• touch .hushlogin
• append bind ‘set enable-bracketed-paste off’ to .bashrc
• Install docker
  • curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
  • sudo sh get-docker.sh
  • rm get-docker.sh
  • sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
  • reboot
• install external hub with ZigBee dongle (it MUST be in a USB2 port)
• git clone git@github.com:mtrudel/pibox.git
  • Ensure that all hostnames in Caddyfile are set up on router, pointing to the same IP as pibox
  • Set up a docker macvlan network:

    > docker network create -d macvlan --gateway 192.168.10.1 --ip-range 192.168.10.33/27 --subnet 192.168.10.0/24 -o parent=eth0 dockervlan
    

  • docker compose up -d
  • Shell into the zigbee2mqtt controller (docker compose run -it zigbee2mqtt /bin/sh) and set up data/configuration.conf enough to get the container started (you can configure the rest from the GUI)
  • go to homebridge
    • install homebridge-z2m