I have been trying to find out whether the SONOFF iHost device will do anything useful for me. It runs NR inside a docker container, and this is my first experience with containers. The iHost firmware gives no real access to the container, so all I have been able to do is peek inside from NR, using exec and file nodes. The mqtt nodes appear to see the broker, which runs on a local RPi and works for other hosts on my LAN, but they do not connect. Advice on how to set up a terminal, fix the mqtt issue, and do anything else interesting would be welcome.
I wonder if you can install "portainer" and run/arrange everything from there, it would act like a jailbreak. If you cannot really see much from iHost in terms of what environment variables have been set etc.
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... beyond my understanding, moving on to next ihost item.
Hi
Use this guide to install Mosquitto MQTT.
Only setback is cannot use port 1883, but thats not given me any problems apart from a third party driver on Smartthings.
Use this guide (also a video by @nygma2004 ) to use a file browser to give access to the settings file.
