thellef/weewx-docker

A Dockerfile for the WeeWX weather station

weewx-docker

A Dockerfile for the WeeWX weather station.

Installing the image

You can get this directly from Docker Hub with

docker pull makobdk/weewx4:latest

Running the image

Please run this via docker-compose:

UID=`id -u' GID=`id -g` USER=`whoami` docker-compose up

Set the UID, GID and USER variables to whatever is appropriate for your system.

You can use the weewx4.service file as a systemd user unit file. Please check that the paths are correct.

Do have a look at the docker-compose.yml file to see what volumes are mapped in (there are quite a lot of them).

You can copy out the default configuration once the container is running with docker cp <CONTAINER_ID>:/home/weewx/weewx.conf default-weewx.conf so you don't start completely from scratch.

Note that if you don't map in the public_html, archive and weewx.conf volumes, WeeWX will use the default configuration which is basically to run in simulator mode.

The passwd volume map is needed for rsync; rsync requires the current user to have an entry in /etc/passwd. Redirect getent passwd $USER to a file and mount that if you want to expose a more limited set of users to the container.

Building the image

Because I'm lazy, the provided Makefile can help you build the image:

make build

Adjust the INSTALL_PLUGINS="<url>,<url>,..." variable in Dockerfile to specify a comma-separated list of WeeWX plugins to install within the Docker image.

The default INSTALL_PLUGINS is set to install the following plugins:

• weewx-mqtt
• weewx-mqtt-input

Note that the Dockerfile patches WeeWX to output log messages to the console.

There's also a make push target for pushing the image to Docker Hub, although that will only work if you have access to my repository.