mDNS in a Docker container

[adilinden]

mDNS in a Docker container

[NorthernMan54]

I’m not an expert on dbus, but am thinking this may not be feasible. As the avaihi daemon needs to be told about homebridge, and the container running homebridge would need to tell your host avahi daemon about it.

have you tried googling docker and shared dbus support?

PS I’m currently on vacation, and won’t have access to my test environment for a month

[taw123]

FYI- Looks similar to my issue #558

I was/am able to bring HB up but NOT leverage the AVAHI for mDNS advertising as I too was unable to share the daemon.

You MUST use host mode (and make sure you aren't on separate VLANs unless you set up a VLAN rule/relay/broadcaster)

Alternatively you could do what I did 5 years ago when I was more actively using this, set up a Docker MACLAN... Silly to do and a waste of resources but might look into setting that up again. That way you have a distinct MAC address for HB and and of course can run another instance to the AVAHI daemon as it will be running on it's own IP address..

Again not the ideal solution but worth mentioning...

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