Homebridge in multi-container

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Trying to get Homebridge working in a multi-container setup.

docker-compose.yml:

version: '2'
volumes:
  homebridge:
services:
  homebridge:
    build: ./homebridge
    privileged: true
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
    volumes:
      - 'homebridge:/'
    environment:
      - PGID=1000
      - PUID=1000      
  mqtt:
    image: panuwitp/mosquitto-arm
    ports:
      - '1883:1883'
  pibell:
    build: ./pibell
    depends_on:
      - mqtt
    privileged: true
    restart: always

And the homebridge Dockerfiles.template is:

FROM balenalib/%%BALENA_MACHINE_NAME%%-node

# use apt-get if you need to install dependencies,
# for instance if you need ALSA sound utils, just uncomment the lines below.
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -yq \
    git make python g++ nodejs avahi-daemon avahi-discover libnss-mdns \
    libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev && \
    apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

RUN /etc/init.d/dbus start
RUN /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start

# Install homebridge
RUN npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge
RUN npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge-mqtt-switch-tasmota

# Copy config over
WORKDIR /root/.homebridge/

# Copy
COPY start.sh start.sh
COPY config.json config.json

# Execute permissions
RUN chmod +x start.sh

# Enable systemd init system in container
ENV INITSYSTEM on

# Expose port
EXPOSE 5353 51826

# Exec homebridge with persistent config
CMD /bin/bash /root/.homebridge/start.sh

All the files are here: https://github.com/chrisrichards/pibell-sub

When deployed on my RasperryPi 3, the mqtt and pibell containers start fine, but Homebridge is stuck in a loop ‘Installing service’. Any ideas how to get homebridge working?

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Usually the intallaling loop means that our supervisor cannot bring the container up, because of some error in the start sequence i.e. start.sh in this case. I would suggest trying to only start homebridge on a bash shell (i.e. CMD bash) and then sshing in to run the rest of the start.sh and see where it breaks.