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Add my server

Install HomeLab Monitor in Claude Code

What you need first

  • Claude Code, installed.
  • Docker, which gives the docker command the server starts with.
  • Your own value for YOUR_HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL.

Steps

  1. Run this in a terminal, in the project folder. It adds the server for you in that project; put --scope user after claude mcp add to have it in every project.
claude mcp add --env HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL=YOUR_HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL --transport stdio homelab-monitor -- docker run -i --rm -e HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL docker.io/sikamikaniko123/homelab-monitor:0.14.2 python /app/mcp_server.py
  1. Replace YOUR_HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL with your own value.
  2. Start Claude Code and type /mcp: the server is listed with its state.

Check it worked

Ask Claude Code: List the tools of homelab-monitor.

If it does not start

Cannot connect to the Docker daemon
Docker is not running. Start it, then restart Claude Code.
The server starts, but its tools fail
A YOUR_… placeholder is still in the config, or its value is wrong.

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