This docker runs room-assistant for the purposes of scanning for BLE iBeacons and publishing the results to an MQTT server.
Bluetooth must be installed and configured on your host machine.
Verify that the command hciconfig dev outputs a device and that the device is listed as UP RUNNING. If the device is down, run sudo hciconfig hci0 up.
Disable bluetooth on the host machine to ensure it does not conflict:
sudo systemctl stop bluetooth && sudo systemctl disable bluetooth
You may have to install the correct firmware for your bluetooth device. See here for more details.
- Pull the image
docker pull grantbey/room:latest
- Start the container
docker run -d --name="room" --privileged --restart=always --net=host -v <local config directory>:/root/room-assistant/config grantbey/room:latest
Note: --privileged doesn't seem to be necessary, but --net=host is.
--name="room": give the container whichever name you like
-v <local config directory>:/root/room-assistant/config: this should map to a local directory where your config file resides. You can download the sample config file here. Note that this file must be renamed to local.json in order for this to work. See the source repository for details on configuration.
--restart=always: ensures that the docker will start automatically. See here.