diff --git a/homeautomation/snips/Dockerfile.amd64 b/homeautomation/snips/Dockerfile.amd64
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+#version: 20181208_rc1
+
+FROM debian:stretch-slim
+
+#Change the timezone to your current timezone!!
+ENV TZ=Europe/Helsinki
+
+RUN set -x && \ 
+	ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime && echo $TZ > /etc/timezone
+	
+RUN set -x && \
+	sed -i "s#deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main#deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main non-free#g" /etc/apt/sources.list && \
+	sed -i "s#deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main#deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main non-free#g" /etc/apt/sources.list && \
+	sed -i "s#deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main#deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main non-free#g" /etc/apt/sources.list
+
+RUN set -x && \
+	apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y
+ 
+RUN set -x && \	
+	apt-get install -y dirmngr apt-transport-https
+
+RUN set -x && \
+	bash -c  'echo "deb https://debian.snips.ai/stretch stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/snips.list'
+
+RUN set -x && \
+	apt-key adv --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F727C778CCB0A455 
+	
+RUN set -x && \
+	apt-get update 
+
+RUN set -x && \
+	apt-get install -y --allow-unauthenticated alsa-utils snips-platform-voice snips-skill-server curl unzip snips-template python-pip git
+
+RUN set -x && \
+	pip install virtualenv
+
+#Is this really required? 
+RUN set -x && \	
+	usermod -aG snips-skills-admin root
+	
+COPY start-snips.sh start-snips.sh
+
+EXPOSE 1883/tcp
+
+
+CMD ["bash","/start-snips.sh"]
diff --git a/homeautomation/snips/build.sh b/homeautomation/snips/build.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+docker build -f Dockerfile.amd64 -t reekymarko/snips .
diff --git a/homeautomation/snips/start-snips.sh b/homeautomation/snips/start-snips.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+#verify that environment variables have been passed to this container. set the default value if not.
+ENABLE_MQTT=${ENABLE_MQTT:-yes}
+ENABLE_HOTWORD_SERVICE=${ENABLE_HOTWORD_SERVICE:-yes}
+
+
+#deploy apps (skills). See: https://snips.gitbook.io/documentation/console/deploying-your-skills
+snips-template render
+
+#goto skill directory
+cd /var/lib/snips/skills
+
+#start with a clear skill directory
+rm -rf *
+
+#download required skills from git
+for url in $(awk '$1=="url:" {print $2}' /usr/share/snips/assistant/Snipsfile.yaml); do
+	git clone $url
+done
+
+#be shure we are still in the skill directory
+cd /var/lib/snips/skills
+
+#run setup.sh for each skill.
+find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d '' dir; do
+	cd "$dir" 
+	if [ -f setup.sh ]; then
+		echo "Run setup.sh in "$dir
+		#run the scrips always with bash
+		bash ./setup.sh
+	fi
+	cd /var/lib/snips/skills
+done
+
+#skill deployment is done
+
+#go back to root directory
+cd /
+
+
+#start own mqtt service.
+if [ $ENABLE_MQTT == yes ]; then
+	mosquitto -d
+fi
+
+#start Snips analytics service
+snips-analytics 2> /var/log/snips-analytics.log  &
+snips_analytics_pid=$!
+
+#start Snips' Automatic Speech Recognition service
+snips-asr 2> /var/log/snips-asr.log &
+snips_asr_pid=$!
+
+#start Snips-dialogue service
+snips-dialogue 2> /var/log/snips-dialogue.log  &
+snips_dialogue_pid=$!
+
+#start Snips hotword service
+
+if [ $ENABLE_HOTWORD_SERVICE == yes ]; then
+	snips-hotword 2> /var/log/snips-hotword.log & 
+	snips_hotword_pid=$!
+fi
+
+#start Snips Natural Language Understanding service
+snips-nlu 2> /var/log/snips-nlu.log &
+snips_nlu_pid=$!
+
+#start Snips Skill service
+snips-skill-server 2> /var/log/snips-skill-server &
+snips_skill_server_pid=$!
+
+#start Snips TTS service
+snips-tts 2> /var/log/snips-tts.log &
+snips_tts_pid=$!
+
+#start the snips audio server without playback and microphone
+snips-audio-server --disable-playback --no-mike --hijack localhost:64321 2> /var/log/snips-audio-server.log &
+snips_audio_server_pid=$!
+
+wait "$snips_analytics_pid" "$snips_asr_pid" "$snips_dialogue_pid" "$snips_hotword_pid" "$snips_nlu_pid" "$snips_skill_server_pid" "$snips_audio_server_pid"
+