Using Mycroft Docker images on OSX
Using Mycroft Docker images on OSX¶
Following from the “Get Mycroft” instructions, we can obtain a docker image with
docker pull mycroftai/docker-mycroft
To enable the sound devices, we require PulseAudio, which we can install on OSX with brew
brew install pulseaudio
It is presented to start the pulseaudio daemon with brew services, however for our specific use case, we instead want to manage the daemon ourselves, and use the command
pulseaudio --load=module-native-protocol-tcp --exit-idle-time=-1 --daemon
to initialise the daemon.
Next, we’ll create a startup, persistent-volume script
#!/bin/bash
docker run --rm -d \
-v /PATH/TO/DATA/DIR:/root/.mycroft \
-e PULSE_SERVER=host.docker.internal \
--mount type=bind,source=/PATH/TO/HOME/.config/pulse,target=/root/.config/pulse \
-p 8181:8181 \
--name mycroft \
mycroftai/docker-mycroft
Note there are two paths in the above which are system specific, and must be absolute. I use /PATH/TO/HOME instead of ~, since the Docker --mount directive required absolutes. We use --mount over -v to prevent root access complications.
That’s it! The rest of the setup is guided by Mycroft repeatedly speaking to you until you’ve registered the device on the homepage.