Added instructions for docker usage; added Update section

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### Docker
Todo
To run it using docker, try the `docker-compose.yaml` file present in this repository. You will need the .env file too for that reasons, so the easiest thing is to just run the following commands:
```bash
git clone https://git.privacynerd.de/BlueFox/SolarControl.git && cd SolarControl
vi .env # adjust the script to your needs
docker-compose up -d && docker-compose logs -f
```
### Bare-bone
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Please note: the .env file needs to be in the same folder or any other folder higher up in the directory structure as the script (more specifically, the WORKDIR). It is just a help, actually, the script searches for specific variables in its environment variables. It only loads the .env file so that you do not need to `export` all the files before running (see https://pypi.org/project/python-dotenv/ for more details). This also means that when using it in docker, you can set the docker containers environment file to that .env file and it will be accepted too.
## Updating
To update, simply use `git pull` to pull the latest changes. Afterwards, you need to restart your script (with docker, just use `docker-compose up -d --force-recreate`).
## Building docker
To build the image for docker, simply use the following commands: