Docker: How to run hyundai_kia_connect_monitor with cron

[Andre1Becker]

Hi All,
this is just for documenting on how i did get this nice little script running in a docker container.

1. Download hyundai_kia_connect_api
2. Download latest hyundai_kia_connect_monitor release
3. Create a folder-structure like this:
   MyDockerFolder
   -> data
   -> app
4. Extract hyundai_kia_connect_monitor-Rx.xx.x.zip to MyDockerFolder/app
5. Extract hyundai_kia_connect_api-3.13.0.zip to MyDockerFolder/app/hyundai_kia_connect_api
6. Create a file called crontab.txt in MyDockerFolder/
7. Paste this in crontab.txt:

HOME=/data
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
*/15 07-20 * * * python3 /opt/hyundai_monitor/monitor.py >> /var/log/monitor.log #Hyundai Monitoring
0 20-07 * * * python3 /opt/hyundai_monitor/monitor.py >> /var/log/monitor.log #Hyundai Monitoring

8. Create a file named entry.sh in MyDockerFolder/app/
9. Paste this in entry.sh:

#!/bin/sh
# start cron
/usr/sbin/cron -f -l 8

10. Create a dockerfile in MyDockerFolder/
11. Paste this in dockerfile

FROM python:3.11
ADD app /opt/hyundai_monitor/
ADD data /data/
ADD crontab.txt /crontab.txt
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y cron bash curl
RUN pip install beautifulsoup4 python_dateutil pytz requests gspread
VOLUME /data
RUN chmod +x /opt/hyundai_monitor/entry.sh
RUN /usr/bin/crontab /crontab.txt
CMD ["./opt/hyundai_monitor/entry.sh"]

12. Move monitor.cfg from MyDockerFolder/app to MyDockerFolder/data

The next step is not needed anymore since hyundai_kia_connect_monitor R3.18.0
13. Modify monitor.py to set the path to monitor.cfg
14. Modify monitor.cfg for your car, region, username and password

Finally your folder-structure should like a bit like this:

15. Thats it. Now use docker build -t hyundai/hyundai_monitor . to generate your docker container.
    Happy Tracking!

Also, you could mount data to a folder outside of docker to access all csv's as you like.

Any suggestions are welcome. I'm no expert in any of this, just figuring stuff out as i go. Thanks to all people from many guides and forum posts that i found to get this running ;-)

And a big shout out to the dev('s) from Hyundai-Kia-Connect and @ZuinigeRijder for creating this script in the first place!

[ZuinigeRijder]

Probably I need to fix the reading of .cfg files, to first look into current directory and then look into the python script directory. monitor.cfg is also read in the other scripts and also summary.cfg and translations.csv. Then you do not have to modify the python scripts.

I will make a release of this change in the near future.

[Andre1Becker]

That cloud make this process a bit easier ;-) Thanks!
BTW - I just did that so i could modify the monitor.cfg if i make a mistake - or if someone else using this little "tutorial" to not bake in any credentials in this file.

[ZuinigeRijder]

@Andre1Becker I made a release for searching the .cfg files first in the current directory, then in the python script directory: R3.18.0