Ignore unavailable devices in docker-compose

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If I put the following on a device that has i2c bus 1 and 7 on the host (RockPi) it builds and runs successfully:

devices:
      - /dev/i2c-7:/dev/i2c-7
      - /dev/i2c-1:/dev/i2c-1

However if I deploy this to a raspberry pi which doesn’t have i2c-7 then it fails to start the containers.

Is there a way to solve this without multiple docker-compose files / multiple repos?

Thanks

(P.S. I know I can use privileged: true but want to avoid that)

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Hey Aaron!

As of today, unfortunately there is no way to do this . This would ideally be achieved via docker compose overrides but balena does not support it. We have an internal ticket tracking this and will inform you of the outcome.

Thanks

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Does Balena CLI support environment variables (Environment variables in Compose | Docker Documentation)?

Could replace some of those volume paths with an environment variable, then try launching by passing a different variable each time. Not ideal, but if it supports env vars could be a way to go.

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Hello,

Unfortunately, at this time it does not: docker-compose.yml fields - Balena Documentation