Hello everyone,
I just wanted to share my experience with heimdall a simple hompage dashboard on mikrotik.

So I thought that it would be ok to host it on the router since it is kinda light and if it fails then whatever its not a big deal.

I created one environment the time zone : TZ
And one mount point heimdall/config to /config

Now what I found out is that without enabling the Logging option it starts and the stops right after.

Also directories permission must Be CHANGED ON ANOTHER LINUX I used
sudo chown -R 1000:1000 .
sudo chmod -R 777 .
I even used my old config and everything worked out of the box (didn't work without this )


Regarding networking part I simply created a veth interface and assigned it a Ip from the local network, it was very easy since heimdall is using port 80 and 443

I have seen this from YouTube how to set up cloudflare tunnel on mikrotik


Conclusion:
For some small testing and playing around in the homelab its fine, wouldn't recommend for production environment as alot features are missing.

Hi Cellproject,

Can you please elaborate somewhat more on how you got it working.

I have been trying to have this working for some time now..and i need some advice

Especially on your mount point

Kind regads,

Bloemetjesgordijn

What ROS version are you using ?
I seem to recall there have been some fixes especially for this permission problem.

Hi,

I just now upgraded from 7.8 to 7.16

Kind regards,

Bloemetjesgordijn

Updated Works (on RB5009)
I forgot to add the IP to the container. It updated in steps below

Well I have it running. these are the steps it worked for me
Note:
I have already a pihole & unbound container running so the following steps are already performed (for the running container Pihole &Unbound)
1. Enable Container mode
/system/device-mode/update container=yes
and/or validate
/system/device-mode/print
2. Add interface and setup NAT
Add interface
/interface/bridge/add name=docker
/ip/address/add address=192.168.34.1/24 interface=docker
Setup NAT for outgoing traffic:
/ip/firewall/nat/add chain=srcnat action=masquerade src-address=192.168.34.0/24

Steps taken to install Heimdall (as a second container ):
A - Setup Interface and NAT stuff
/ip/address/add address=192.168.35.1/24 interface=docker
/interface/veth/add name=veth2 address=192.168.35.2/24 gateway=192.168.35.1
/interface/bridge/port add bridge=docker interface=veth2
Setup NAT for outgoing traffic:
/ip/firewall/nat/add chain=srcnat action=masquerade src-address=192.168.35.0/24
Make Heimdall available via Miktorik ip#
/ip firewall nat add action=dst-nat chain=dstnat dst-address=192.168.88.1 dst-port=8080 protocol=tcp to-addresses=192.168.35.2 to-ports=80
B - Setup container stuff
add enviroments variables
/container/envs/add name=heimdall_envs key=TZ value="Europe/Amsterdam"
/container/envs/add name=heimdall_envs key=PUID value="1000"
/container/envs/add name=heimdall_envs key=PGID value="1000"
/container/mounts/add name=heimdall src=usb1/heimdall dst=/etc/heimdall
/container/mounts/add name=heimdall src=/heimdall/config dst=/config
C - get container image image
/container/add remote-image=linuxserver/heimdall:latest interface=veth2 root-dir=usb1/heimdall mounts=heimdall envlist=heimdall_envs logging=yes start-on-boot=yes
D -Start container
/container/print
/container/start 1

Current status:
- Container is running
- I can reach it (http://192.168.88.1:8080/

Remaining items
I have some minor issues regarding saving custom Icons

Wouldn't it be sensible then to present your config for review ?

It works
I have updated my manual

Nice job

Thx

I have some minor issues regarding saving custom Icons
I think that is due to some missing authorization PUID and PGID settings..

But is is fast (faster then my rasp4).

Kind regards,