babybuddy

babybuddy

Docker app from linuxserver's Repository

Overview

Babybuddy(https://github.com/babybuddy/babybuddy) is a buddy for babies! Helps caregivers track sleep, feedings, diaper changes, tummy time and more to learn about and predict baby's needs without (as much) guess work.

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The LinuxServer.io team brings you another container release featuring:

  • regular and timely application updates
  • easy user mappings (PGID, PUID)
  • custom base image with s6 overlay
  • weekly base OS updates with common layers across the entire LinuxServer.io ecosystem to minimise space usage, down time and bandwidth
  • regular security updates

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Babybuddy is a buddy for babies! Helps caregivers track sleep, feedings, diaper changes, tummy time and more to learn about and predict baby's needs without (as much) guess work.

babybuddy

Supported Architectures

We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker here and our announcement here.

Simply pulling lscr.io/linuxserver/babybuddy:latest should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.

The architectures supported by this image are:

Architecture Available Tag
x86-64 amd64-<version tag>
arm64 arm64v8-<version tag>

Application Setup

Access the webui at <your-ip>:8000 (or whichever host port is mapped in docker arguments). The default user/pass are admin:admin.

By default BabyBuddy uses sqlite3. To use an external database like postgresql or mysql/mariadb instead, you can use the environment variables listed in BabyBuddy docs.

Usage

To help you get started creating a container from this image you can either use docker-compose or the docker cli.

[!NOTE] Unless a parameter is flagged as 'optional', it is mandatory and a value must be provided.

docker-compose (recommended, click here for more info)

---
services:
  babybuddy:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/babybuddy:latest
    container_name: babybuddy
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
      - CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS=http://127.0.0.1:8000,https://babybuddy.domain.com
    volumes:
      - /path/to/babybuddy/config:/config
    ports:
      - 8000:8000
    restart: unless-stopped

docker cli (click here for more info)

docker run -d \
  --name=babybuddy \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=Etc/UTC \
  -e CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS=http://127.0.0.1:8000,https://babybuddy.domain.com \
  -p 8000:8000 \
  -v /path/to/babybuddy/config:/config \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  lscr.io/linuxserver/babybuddy:latest

Parameters

Containers are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate <external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.

Parameter Function
-p 8000:8000 the port for the web ui
-e PUID=1000 for UserID - see below for explanation
-e PGID=1000 for GroupID - see below for explanation
-e TZ=Etc/UTC specify a timezone to use, see this list.
-e CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS=http://127.0.0.1:8000,https://babybuddy.domain.com Add any address you'd like to access babybuddy at (comma separated, no spaces)
-v /config Persistent config files

Environment variables from files (Docker secrets)

You can set any environment variable from a file by using a special prepend FILE__.

As an example:

-e FILE__MYVAR=/run/secrets/mysecretvariable

Will set the environment variable MYVAR based on the contents of the /run/secrets/mysecretvariable file.

Umask for running applications

For all of our images we provide the ability to override the default umask settings for services started within the containers using the optional -e UMASK=022 setting. Keep in mind umask is not chmod it subtracts from permissions based on it's value it does not add. Please read up here before asking for support.

User / Group Identifiers

When using volumes (-v flags), permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.

Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.

In this instance PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id your_user as below:

id your_user

Example output:

uid=1000(your_user) gid=1000(your_user) groups=1000(your_user)

Docker Mods

Docker Mods Docker Universal Mods

We publish various Docker Mods to enable additional functionality within the containers. The list of Mods available for this image (if any) as well as universal mods that can be applied to any one of our images can be accessed via the dynamic badges above.

Support Info

  • Shell access whilst the container is running:

    docker exec -it babybuddy /bin/bash
    
  • To monitor the logs of the container in realtime:

    docker logs -f babybuddy
    
  • Container version number:

    docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' babybuddy
    
  • Image version number:

    docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' lscr.io/linuxserver/babybuddy:latest
    

Updating Info

Most of our images are static, versioned, and require an image update and container recreation to update the app inside. With some exceptions (noted in the relevant readme.md), we do not recommend or support updating apps inside the container. Please consult the Application Setup section above to see if it is recommended for the image.

Below are the instructions for updating containers:

Via Docker Compose

  • Update images:

    • All images:

      docker-compose pull
      
    • Single image:

      docker-compose pull babybuddy
      
  • Update containers:

    • All containers:

      docker-compose up -d
      
    • Single container:

      docker-compose up -d babybuddy
      
  • You can also remove the old dangling images:

    docker image prune
    

Via Docker Run

  • Update the image:

    docker pull lscr.io/linuxserver/babybuddy:latest
    
  • Stop the running container:

    docker stop babybuddy
    
  • Delete the container:

    docker rm babybuddy
    
  • Recreate a new container with the same docker run parameters as instructed above (if mapped correctly to a host folder, your /config folder and settings will be preserved)

  • You can also remove the old dangling images:

    docker image prune
    

Image Update Notifications - Diun (Docker Image Update Notifier)

[!TIP] We recommend Diun for update notifications. Other tools that automatically update containers unattended are not recommended or supported.

Building locally

If you want to make local modifications to these images for development purposes or just to customize the logic:

git clone https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-babybuddy.git
cd docker-babybuddy
docker build \
  --no-cache \
  --pull \
  -t lscr.io/linuxserver/babybuddy:latest .

The ARM variants can be built on x86_64 hardware and vice versa using lscr.io/linuxserver/qemu-static

docker run --rm --privileged lscr.io/linuxserver/qemu-static --reset

Once registered you can define the dockerfile to use with -f Dockerfile.aarch64.

Versions

  • 27.07.25: - Rebase to Alpine 3.22.
  • 30.06.24: - Rebase to Alpine 3.20. Existing users should update their nginx confs to avoid http2 deprecation warnings.
  • 23.12.23: - Rebase to Alpine 3.19 with php 8.3.
  • 05.07.23: - Add standard HTTP/HTTPS listen ports 80 and 443, keeping 8000 for backwards compatibility.
  • 25.05.23: - Rebase to Alpine 3.18, deprecate armhf.
  • 16.01.23: - Rebase to Alpine 3.17.
  • 23.11.22: - Rebase to Alpine 3.16, migrate to s6v3. Restructure nginx configs (see changes announcement).
  • 28.05.22: - Add missing PUID/PGID vars to readme.
  • 03.04.22: - Rebase to alpine-nginx baseimage. Add CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS env var.
  • 11.12.21: - Add py3-mysqlclient for mysql/mariadb.
  • 14.11.21: - Add lxml dependencies (temp fix for amd64 by force compiling lxml).
  • 25.07.21: - Add libpq for postgresql.
  • 08.07.21: - Fix pip install issue.
  • 05.07.21: - Update Gunicorn parameters to prevent WORKER_TIMEOUT issue.
  • 22.06.21: - Initial release.

Install Babybuddy on Unraid in a few clicks.

Find Babybuddy in Community Apps on your Unraid server, review the template, and click Install. Unraid handles the Docker app or plugin setup from the published template.

Open the Apps tab on your Unraid server Search Community Apps for Babybuddy Review the template variables and paths Click Install

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Details

Repository
lscr.io/linuxserver/babybuddy
Last Updated2026-06-14
First Seen2021-07-22

Runtime arguments

Web UI
http://[IP]:[PORT:8000]/
Network
bridge
Shell
bash
Privileged
false

Template configuration

WebUIPorttcp

the port for the web ui

Target
8000
Default
8000
AppdataPathrw

Persistent config files

Target
/config
CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINSVariable

Add any address you'd like to access babybuddy at (comma separated, no spaces)

Default
http://127.0.0.1:8000,https://babybuddy.domain.com
PUIDVariable

Container Variable: PUID

Default
99
PGIDVariable

Container Variable: PGID

Default
100
UMASKVariable

Container Variable: UMASK

Default
022