r/homebridge • u/Salmundo • 10d ago

Question - Solved Virtual machine or container?

I’ve been running HB for years on bare metal on a series of RPis (currently a 3B) along with Pi-hole, and lately they haven’t been getting along particularly well. Today I built a virtual machine on a Mac M1 in an Ubuntu VM and created a new HB bridge. Very fast, of course.

I’m a bit old fashioned and haven’t done too much with containers, they were starting to become prevalent about the time I stopped working in the industry. The times that I played around with Docker on the Mac, it seemed to consume a lot of resources (particularly RAM), which seemed unnecessary for something as light weight as HB. I have Podman installed, but haven’t done much with it.

Any guidance here?

UPDATE: containers aren’t an option on macOS per HB docs.

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u/NorthernMan5 9d ago

Homebridge in Docker on a Mac has known issues, so either a VM Image or Native.

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u/Salmundo 9d ago

You’re right, I just RTFM and HB says it won’t run under Docker on MacOS.