[Reactor] Bug when sending MQTT boolean payloads

[Talisker]

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 $

[CatmanV2]

I should probably leave this to @toggledbits but what does

su docker stop reactor

do?

C

[Talisker]

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

[CatmanV2]

Oh sorry!

sudo docker stop reactor

DOH

C

[Talisker]

@catmanv2 I tried that thanks and it works:

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

Cheers!

[Talisker]

@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.

[toggledbits]

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.

[Talisker]

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

[toggledbits]

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).

[Talisker]

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