Homebridge on WD My Book Duo

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Hi there!
I’m very interested in adding home bridge to our system. It’d be almost purely a hobby add, with some additional WAF since I think she’ll like the UI using Apple Home more than Home Remote.

Given it’s not really a need at all, I’m hesitant to spend much money. What I have that I think could work is an old WD My Book Live which I don’t need at all anymore. Seems like I should be able to use it to run docker and then HB, but googling this feels like a black hole. I find enough to look promising, but directions aren’t clear enough for me to know where to get started.

I don’t have any real programming experience, but would be interested in learning what I need to to get it done (if this is possible). So I get I’m going at this probably the most complicated way, but I’m bored and have the idea burning a hole in my pocket.

So my questions are:

  1. Is this impossible and/or I should just get a better solution? (Recommendations besides the pi? Anything under $100?)

  2. Any good ELI5 tutorials out there?

Thanks all!

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Can you run Docker on that platform? In any case, if it is an arm32 or arm64 hardware platform, there are homebridge docker images available here:

https://hub.docker.com/r/oznu/homebridge/

If it isn't, you can run homebridge on the SBC of your choice - it doesn't have to be an RPi.

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thanks! yeah, knowing whether this device can even run docker is part of what I'm trying to figure out. so I was more curious if someone has done this with this kind of NAS before and/or if there's a really clear tutorial from true A-Z to help outline how.