For the next person who finds this:
Ok, got it working balena has actually managed to make Udev work well out of the box with their base images. so for perpetuity here is my docker-compose.yaml & Dockerfile:
Dockerfile.template:
FROM balenalib/%%BALENA_ARCH%%-debian-python:3.9-bullseye
ENV UDEV=1
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y wget python3-dev build-essential cmake pkg-config libjpeg-dev libtiff5-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libv4l-dev libxvidcore-dev libx264-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libatlas-base-dev gfortran git libopencv-dev
RUN git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/luxonis/depthai-python.git
WORKDIR depthai-python
RUN ./ci/docker_dependencies.sh
RUN pip install -U pip && pip install --extra-index-url https://www.piwheels.org/simple/ --prefer-binary opencv-python
# Install C++ library
RUN cmake -S /depthai-python/depthai-core -B /build -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local
RUN cmake --build /build --parallel 4 --config Relase --target install
# Install Python library
RUN cd /depthai-python && python3 -m pip install .docker-compose.yaml:
version: '2.4'
services:
spatial-tracker:
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Dockerfile.template
restart: always
privileged: true
network_mode: host
environment:
- DISPLAY=$DISPLAY
devices:
- "/dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb"
- "/tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix"
device_cgroup_rules:
- "c 189:* rmw"
tty: true
labels:
io.balena.features.dbus: '1'
io.balena.features.balena-socket: '1'
io.balena.features.kernel-modules: '1'
io.balena.features.sysfs: '1'