doc(Docker): document running in Docker

[bentolor]

While I failed to get the setup running for me (I have a SmartSolar and it seems it uses a different approach, See https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/187303/victron-bluetooth-advertising-protocol.html. And my LifePO4 BMS seems to be out of bluetooth reach), I still documented the necessary steps for clarity.

Watch out my change in run.sh. No clue how this is supposed to run.

[fl4p]

Why are you running this in Docker? batmon supports all mayor operating systems.

And whats the reason building this from homeassistant/amd64-base:latest? Batmon doesn’t use any HA specific binaries.
minimal alpine linux should be just fine. Whats the size of homeassistant/amd64-base:latest ?

The Dockerfile is meant to be for HA add-on interface. HA chooses the right base image, see
https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/add-ons/configuration/

I don't recommend running batmon in Docker anyway. Better to run this directly on the host, it doesn't open any port.
Docker is often unnecessary.

[bentolor]

Why are you running this in Docker?

All my production workloads are portable, decoupled from host environment, using isolated environments and lightweight.

And whats the reason building this from homeassistant/amd64-base:latest

Obviously I tried to adopt the existing blueprint. I remember some weird dependencies to S7 and it seemshomeassistant/amd64-base:latest provides that.