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+
+Note: gave up on this since it repeatedly failed to read from the serial ports after a few hours of operation.
+
 # openhab-ansible
 Ansible playbooks to setup openhab on a raspberry pi.
 
diff --git a/roles/openhab/tasks/docker/openhab.docker.yml b/roles/openhab/tasks/docker/openhab.docker.yml
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+
+
+- name: create directories for openhab
+  file: 
+    path: "{{ item }}"
+    owner: pi
+    group: pi
+    mode: '0755'
+    state: directory
+  loop:
+    - "{{ openhab_root_dir }}"
+    - "{{ openhab_root_dir }}/conf"
+    - "{{ openhab_root_dir }}/userdata"
+    - "{{ openhab_root_dir }}/addons"
+    - "{{ openhab_root_dir }}/restore"
+
+
+# https://hub.docker.com/r/openhab/openhab/
+- name: Create openhab container
+  community.docker.docker_container:
+    name: "openhab"
+    image: "openhab/openhab:{{ openhab_version }}"
+    state: "started"
+    container_default_behavior: compatibility
+    command: "bash -c 'if [ -e /restore/restore.zip ]; then echo y |/openhab/runtime/bin/restore /restore/restore.zip ; fi; exec tini -s ./start.sh server'"
+    #detach: "yes"
+    #interactive: "yes"
+    #tty: "yes"
+    #networks:
+    #  - name: "host"
+    ports:
+      - 8080:8080
+      - 8443:8443
+    env:
+      "EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS": "-Duser.timezone={{ timezone }}"
+      "USER_ID": "{{ openhab_userid }}"
+      "GROUP_ID": "{{ openhab_groupid }}"
+    restart_policy: "unless-stopped"
+    privileged: yes
+    # devices:
+    #   - "/dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0"
+    #   - "/dev/ttyAMA0:/dev/ttyAMA0"
+    mounts:
+      - target: "/openhab/conf"
+        source: "{{ openhab_root_dir }}/conf"
+        type: bind
+      - target: "/openhab/userdata"
+        source: "{{ openhab_root_dir }}/userdata"
+        type: bind
+      - target: "/openhab/addons"
+        source: "{{ openhab_root_dir }}/addons"
+        type: bind
+      - target: "/restore"
+        source: "{{ openhab_root_dir }}/restore"
+        type: bind
+      - target: /etc/localtime
+        source: /etc/localtime
+        type: bind
+        read_only: yes
+      - target: /etc/timezone
+        source: /etc/timezone
+        type: bind
+        read_only: yes
+      - target: /dev
+        source: /dev
+        type: bind
+  
diff --git a/roles/openhab/tasks/docker/rollershutters.docker.yml b/roles/openhab/tasks/docker/rollershutters.docker.yml
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+
+- name: Download Rollershutters dependencies
+  get_url:
+    url: "{{ item.src }}"
+    dest: "/home/pi/openhab/addons/{{ item.name }}"
+    mode: "0644"
+  loop:
+    # https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.servicemix.bundles/org.apache.servicemix.bundles.quartz
+    - name: "org.apache.servicemix.bundles.quartz-2.3.2_1.jar"
+      src: "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/servicemix/bundles/org.apache.servicemix.bundles.quartz/2.3.2_1/org.apache.servicemix.bundles.quartz-2.3.2_1.jar"
+    # seems to be included in openhab already
+    #- name: "snakeyaml-1.27.jar"
+    #  src: "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/yaml/snakeyaml/1.27/snakeyaml-1.27.jar"
+  tags:
+    - javalibs
diff --git a/roles/openhab/tasks/docker/scripts.yml b/roles/openhab/tasks/docker/scripts.yml
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+---
+
+- name: create scripts dir
+  file: 
+    dest: "/home/pi/bin"
+    state: directory
+
+- name: create scripts
+  template:
+     src: "{{ item }}.sh"
+     dest: "/home/pi/bin/{{ item }}"
+     owner: root
+     group: root
+     mode: "u=rwx,g=xr,o=rx"
+  loop:
+    - client
+    - backup
diff --git a/roles/openhab/templates/docker/backup.docker.sh b/roles/openhab/templates/docker/backup.docker.sh
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+
+BACKUP_DIR="/home/pi/openhab/userdata/backup"
+BACKUP_SERVER_URL="christian@ds3018:/volume1/backup/openhab"
+
+sudo docker exec -ti openhab /openhab/runtime/bin/backup
+
+BACKUP_FILE=$(/bin/ls -tr ${BACKUP_DIR}/ |tail -1)
+scp ${BACKUP_DIR}/${BACKUP_FILE} ${BACKUP_SERVER_URL}/
diff --git a/roles/openhab/templates/docker/client.sh b/roles/openhab/templates/docker/client.sh
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+sudo docker exec -it openhab /openhab/runtime/bin/client