telldus-core-alpine

Docker image running Alpine Linux that provides a telldusd interface to be used to communicate with your tellstick.

Installation

The recommended way for running the image is to include it to your existing docker-compose.yaml file so only linked containers can talk to it.

Docker Compose

Here is an example using docker-compose:

  telldus-core-alpine:
    image: mliljedahl/telldus-core-alpine:1.0.1
    container_name: telldus-core-alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    devices:
      - /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb:rwm
    volumes:
      - ./data/tellstick.conf:/etc/tellstick.conf:ro
    expose:
      - "50800"
      - "50801"

Easy installation

Easiest option is to run the docker-compose.yaml file. This is far from recommended because the telldusd ports (50800-50801) will be exposed to the host network (0.0.0.0). Only use this method for testing.

$ docker-compose up -d

Docker run

$ docker run --name telldus-core-alpine -v ./data/tellstick.conf:/etc/tellstick.conf:ro --device=/dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb:rwm -d mliljedahl/telldus-core-alpine:1.0.1

Home Assistant

Here is the config that needs to be added or changed in configuration.yaml for home-assistant:

# Example configuration.yaml entry with the TellStick add-on
tellstick:
  host: telldus-core-alpine
  port: [50800, 50801]

TellStick configuration

The provided data/tellstick.conf is the default config and need to be updated for your sensors and devices. If you have this already setup in for example /etc/tellstick.conf you can include this directly from the docker-compose.yaml file by editing the volume;

    volumes:
      - /etc/tellstick.conf:/etc/tellstick.conf:ro

Example file

This is an example of tellstick.conf. The serial should be the same for all tellstick devices, you can verify that by checking the outout from sudo lsusb -v.

user="root"
group="plugdev"
ignoreControllerConfirmation="false"

controller {
  id=1
  type=2
  serial="A7Z2Z64B"
}

device {
  id=1
  name="livingroom-01"
  protocol="arctech"
  model="selflearning-switch"
  parameters {
    house="1"
    unit="1"
  }
}

Manual testing

The docker image provides the tdtool command and it can be used like;

$ docker exec -it telldus-core-alpine tdtool -f 1
Turning off device 1, livingroom-01 - Success

For more information see; docker exec -it telldus-core-alpine tdtool -h

Reporting bugs

Please report bugs in the issue tracker.

Project home

The project can be found on github

License

Distributed under the Apache 2.0 License. See LICENSE for more information.