Add Filecoin Station to Umbrel

[TomKalina]

Hi there! 👋

Have you ever considered adding Filecoin Station to the Umbrel App Store? Umbrel is a highly popular platform for self-hosted solutions in the crypto community, and integrating Filecoin Station could significantly boost awareness and adoption of your project.

Why Umbrel?

• Umbrel is widely used in the crypto and Web3 space.
• Listing Filecoin Station as an app could increase visibility and accessibility for potential users.

Steps to Get Started

1. Build a Community App
   Start by creating a app with fork Umbrel Community App Store and create app using the docker image

2. Submit to the Official App Store
   Once the app is fine-tuned and well-tested, you can seek inclusion in the official Umbrel app store.

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I have some experience with making umbrel addon so if you would be interested so I am helpful help.

[bajtos]

Thank you for the suggestion!

From https://umbrel.com/, I found the docs for app building here:
https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel-apps/blob/master/README.md

Apps run inside isolated Docker containers, and the only requirement (for now) is that they should have a web-based UI.

We already provide docker images for Station, see https://github.com/filecoin-station/core/pkgs/container/core

There is no web-based UI, though.

I remember discussing that Station Core could provide web UI based on the UI provided by Station Desktop, but I don't remember why we decided against that.

What kind of UI would you find useful inside Umbrel?

FAQs

1. How do I push app updates?

   Every time you release a new version of your app, you should build, tag, and push the new Docker images to Docker Hub. Then open a new PR on our main app repo (getumbrel/umbrel-apps) with your up-to-date docker image, and updated version and releaseNotes in your app's umbrel-app.yml file.

We will need to automate this step by adding additional steps to our GitHub Actions workflow that is publishing new Docker image versions:

core/.github/workflows/docker.yml

Lines 37 to 47 in ef271c2

	- name: Build and push Docker image
	uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
	with:
	context: .
	push: true
	tags: |
	ghcr.io/filecoin-station/core
	ghcr.io/filecoin-station/core:${{ steps.package-version.outputs.current-version }}
	platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
	cache-from: type=registry,ref=ghcr.io/filecoin-station/core
	cache-to: type=inline

[bajtos]

A potentially better approach is to create a new project consuming Station Core in a similar way how Station Desktop does, see main/core.js, and adding a custom Umbrel-specific web UI on top of that.

Station Core was designed for embeddability. Your Umbrel-specific wrapper can use the same APIs that Station Desktop does.

[TomKalina]

A potentially better approach is to create a new project consuming Station Core in a similar way how Station Desktop does, see main/core.js, and adding a custom Umbrel-specific web UI on top of that.

Station Core was designed for embeddability. Your Umbrel-specific wrapper can use the same APIs that Station Desktop does.

I don't know the internal implementation of the code.

But having a full interface that is in the desktop would be the absolute best solution everything else would be a compromise.

It would allow the client to run nonstop.