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[Reactor] Variables not updating correctly in latest-25201-2aa18550
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Hello all.. been a minute! I recently rebuilt my Z wave network and migrated to a new z wave stick. In order to prevent any downtime I kept my original z wave network up and ran a docker version of Z Wave JS UI with my new controller. This way I could add device by device without having any devices down. I finally moved all the devices over to my new stick today. The final step was to migrate everything from my Docker instance of Z Wave JS UI to the HA add-on of Z Wave JS UI. However during this migration some of the names didn't populate correctly which I later managed to import back into Z Wave JS UI. The issue was in Reactor it is stuck on the default names and the entities are not updating. I removed the controller from Reactor, restarted, hard refreshed, and added the controller back however the new entity names have not updated. Also it seems like the old entities from my previous instance of Z Wave JS UI are lingering and not being marked as dead (I believe a certain amount of time needs to lapse before they're marked as dead in Reactor). My goal is to basically purge all the entities for the 'ZWaveJS' controller in Reactor so it can pull all the updated entity names and only the entities that exist in Z Wave JS UI. I cannot find a quick way to do this, I know entities can be deleted one by one, but with over 100 entities this would take long I am guessing that if I added the controller with a new name in in the Reactor config it would pull the updated entities and names but I think that would break my rules since the entity IDs would change (I made sure to name all the entities the exact same as they were previously to prevent this issue).
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Copying configuraiton and rules from QNAP install to Raspberry PI 4 install

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    CatmanV2
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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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      #3

      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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        Talisker
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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 $

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

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          #5

          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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            Talisker
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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

              C

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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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                        toggledbits
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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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