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Copying configuraiton and rules from QNAP install to Raspberry PI 4 install

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    Talisker
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    I have made good progress setting up a new Raspberry PI 4 with the latest OS (64bit) and latest Reactor images in Docker. However I am not able to copy my configuraiton files (.yml) and reactor reactions over. I am not yet that confident with linux commands, so I have tired to drag and drop the files from a USB drive to the working folders in my new Raspberry PI. I am getting a popup in the GUI stating 'The file operation was completed with errors.' and Errors occured: "rule-xxxxxx.json: Error opening file "/home/pi/reactor/....................................json":Permission denied.

    I suspect it's something to do with permissions?

    Is there an easier way to copy my configuration over??

    Vera plus user. MSR user on Raspberry PI 4. Running MSR version 23049 in Docker

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      #2

      Where are the files currently?
      What user are you logging on as when you're copying the files?

      There's sort of a million ways to solve this.
      You can SCP them over
      SFTP them over
      Copy them as the correct user (which is the fundamental issue.

      So what user are you working as and what user owns the /home/pi/reactor folder?

      ls -l /home/pi
      

      Will be a good start

      Do you have SSH access to the Pi?

      C

      The Ex-Vera abuser know as CatmanV2.....

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        I suspect the files on the QNAP have root as the owner. That often happens with docker containers, and if you're just logged in as the pi user trying to copy the files, you'll get those messages. Drag and drop isn't going to get you there. I don't have a QNAP NAS, but if you can ssh into it, do that (log in as yourself). Then...

        • Bring yourself up to root sudo su -.
        • Navigate (using cd) to the directory above your config, storage, and logs on the QNAP NAS.
        • Make an archive file: tar cvf ../reactorconfig.tar .
          This will create the archive file in the directory above your current directory.
        • Copy the archive file to the Pi (e.g. into /home/pi)
        • Log in on the Pi as pi
        • Become root on the Pi: sudo su -
        • Go to the directory you created for the Reactor work files (using cd)
        • Untar the archive file: tar xvf /home/pi/reactorconfig.tar
        • Make your future life easier by making pi the owner of the files (esp. the config files): chown -R pi .
        • Exit the root privilege level: exit (you are now user pi again)
        • Try starting the docker container (using docker-compose is highly recommended, see install instructions).

        Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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          Thanks for the prompt responses guys. I might have to concede on this one and start my reactions again!

          On another note. I have installed / configured docker-compose (or at least I thought I had). I don't seem to be able to use it to stop reactor:

          pi@raspberrypi:~ $ docker stop reactor
          Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Post "http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/containers/reactor/stop": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied
          pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd reactor
          pi@raspberrypi:~/reactor $ docker stop reactor
          Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Post "http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/containers/reactor/stop": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied
          pi@raspberrypi:~/reactor $ dir
          config docker-compose.yml logs storage
          pi@raspberrypi:~/reactor $ ^C
          pi@raspberrypi:~/reactor $ sudo docker stop reactor
          reactor
          pi@raspberrypi:~/reactor $ docker-compose down
          ERROR: Couldn't connect to Docker daemon at http+docker://localhost - is it running?

          If it's at a non-standard location, specify the URL with the DOCKER_HOST environment variable.
          pi@raspberrypi:~/reactor $

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            I should probably leave this to @toggledbits but what does

            su docker stop reactor
            

            do?

            C

            The Ex-Vera abuser know as CatmanV2.....

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              pi@raspberrypi:~/reactor $ su docker stop reactor
              su: user docker does not exist or the user entry does not contain all the required fields

              Vera plus user. MSR user on Raspberry PI 4. Running MSR version 23049 in Docker

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                Oh sorry!

                sudo docker stop reactor
                

                DOH

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                  Oh sorry!

                  sudo docker stop reactor
                  

                  DOH

                  C

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                  @catmanv2 I tried that thanks and it works:

                  sudo docker stop reactor #stops reactor
                  sudo service docker restart #starts reactor

                  Cheers!

                  Vera plus user. MSR user on Raspberry PI 4. Running MSR version 23049 in Docker

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                    I suspect the files on the QNAP have root as the owner. That often happens with docker containers, and if you're just logged in as the pi user trying to copy the files, you'll get those messages. Drag and drop isn't going to get you there. I don't have a QNAP NAS, but if you can ssh into it, do that (log in as yourself). Then...

                    • Bring yourself up to root sudo su -.
                    • Navigate (using cd) to the directory above your config, storage, and logs on the QNAP NAS.
                    • Make an archive file: tar cvf ../reactorconfig.tar .
                      This will create the archive file in the directory above your current directory.
                    • Copy the archive file to the Pi (e.g. into /home/pi)
                    • Log in on the Pi as pi
                    • Become root on the Pi: sudo su -
                    • Go to the directory you created for the Reactor work files (using cd)
                    • Untar the archive file: tar xvf /home/pi/reactorconfig.tar
                    • Make your future life easier by making pi the owner of the files (esp. the config files): chown -R pi .
                    • Exit the root privilege level: exit (you are now user pi again)
                    • Try starting the docker container (using docker-compose is highly recommended, see install instructions).
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                    @toggledbits thanks for the methodology. I manged to copy the files from a usb stick to the relevant folders using the sudo cp command. Feeling pretty pleased as I am now up an running on my raspberry pi.

                    Vera plus user. MSR user on Raspberry PI 4. Running MSR version 23049 in Docker

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                      #10

                      Just add the pi user to the docker group on the Pi, and you won't have to sudo to use the docker or docker-compose commands.

                      # Run this command as user `pi`:
                      sudo usermod -a -G docker pi
                      

                      Going forward, you should do everything related to the process (container) via docker-compose. You should rarely need or use the docker command itself.

                      Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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                        Just add the pi user to the docker group on the Pi, and you won't have to sudo to use the docker or docker-compose commands.

                        # Run this command as user `pi`:
                        sudo usermod -a -G docker pi
                        

                        Going forward, you should do everything related to the process (container) via docker-compose. You should rarely need or use the docker command itself.

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                        @toggledbits something is not working quite right with my docker install (docker-compose). Not sure where to start!

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                        Vera plus user. MSR user on Raspberry PI 4. Running MSR version 23049 in Docker

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                          #12

                          Can you post your compose file? Also, I assume you ran the docker-compose command while in the same directory as the compose file? Did you start it with docker-compose? If not, you're probably going to get errors like this trying to stop it with docker-compose... the two commands are not interchangeable (for start/stop).

                          Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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                            Sorry @toggledbits . I tied it again after a good break and it appears to work fine. I honestly don't know what was going wrong but things seem to now be in order:

                            pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd reactor
                            pi@raspberrypi:~/reactor $ ls
                            config docker-compose.yml logs storage
                            pi@raspberrypi:~/reactor $ docker-compose down
                            Stopping reactor ... done
                            Removing reactor ... done
                            Removing network reactor_default
                            pi@raspberrypi:~/reactor $ docker-compose pull
                            Pulling reactor ... done
                            pi@raspberrypi:~/reactor $ docker-compose up -d
                            Creating network "reactor_default" with the default driver
                            Creating reactor ... done

                            docker-compose.yml below FYI:

                            Multi-System Reactor template docker-compose.yml (version 22160)

                            Change the lines indicated by "DO"...

                            version: '3'

                            services:
                            reactor:
                            container_name: reactor
                            environment:
                            # DO change the TZ: line to set your local time zone.
                            # See valid TZ list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
                            TZ: GB
                            #
                            # DO NOT change this path. Your directory location is in "source" below.
                            REACTOR_DATA_PREFIX: /var/reactor

                            # DO change the image below to the one you are using (e.g. armv7l or aarch64 for RPi 4)
                            image: toggledbits/reactor:latest-aarch64
                            
                            restart: "always"
                            expose:
                              - 8111
                            ports:
                              - 8111:8111
                            volumes:
                                # DO change the /home/username/reactor below to the directory you created for
                                # your local data; DO NOT change the /var/reactor part
                              - /home/pi/reactor:/var/reactor
                              - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
                            tmpfs: /tmp
                            

                            Vera plus user. MSR user on Raspberry PI 4. Running MSR version 23049 in Docker

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