ELProxy Docker Container

ElProxy is a docker container that will spin up an Echolink Proxy server for the Echolink Amateur Radio VOIP network.

If you are behind a network firewall where you are not able to forward the ports needed for Echolink to work (say like a work firewall or a hotel firewallO) the Echolink Proxy Server allows you to connect out of that network on one port versus the 2 or 3 needed. You can run the Proxy at home and get access to Echolink that way.

Echolink is designed and maintained by Jonathan Taylor, K1RFD. He also designed the proxy, I just spun it into a Docker Container to make deployment easier for me. Find out more about Echolink at https://www.echolink.org/.

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Prerequisites

In order to run this container you need to do the following:

• Make sure you have Docker and Docker Compose installed

• Create directory to hold the config file for the proxy

mkdir elproxy

Next dowload the ElProxy.conf file from https://github.com/n8acl/elproxy-docker/blob/master/ELProxy.conf and put it in this directory you just created.

Modify the password field to a password that you will remember.

Save the file.

Now we are ready to get it running in docker.

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Running with Docker Compose

Copy the following into a docker-compose.yml file:

version: '3.2'

services:
  elproxy:
    image: n8acl/elproxy:latest
    container_name: elproxy
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
        - '8200:8200'
        - '5198:5198'
        - '5199:5199'
        - '5200:5200'
    volumes:
        - /<path-to>/elproxy/ELProxy.conf:/usr/app/ELProxy.conf

Replace < tag > with the tag for your platform. Tags are:

• rpi: for running on a Raspberry Pi
• amd64: for running on a regular linux computer

Replace < path-to > with the full path to the config file you just created.

Save the file and then type:

docker-compose up -d

Check to make sure the container is running:

docker container ls --all

Now try to connect to your Echolink Proxy and the rest of the network.

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Contact

If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to me. You can reach me in one of the following ways:

• Discord: Ravendos
• Mastodon: @n8acl@mastodon.radio
• E-mail: n8acl@qsl.net

If you reach out to me and have an error, please include what error you are getting and what you were doing. I may also ask you to send me certain files to look at. Otherwise just reach out to me :).

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Change Log

• 03/18/2023 - Pushed MultiArch Container for amd64 and Raspberry Pi

• 03/29/2022 - Updated Contact Information on README.md

• 08/29/2020 - Initial Release