Synology Docker installation
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If someone smarter than me wishes to volunteer a simple write-up on the exact steps required to get MSR up and running on my Synology NAS (with Docker installed and active), I'd be delighted to give it a try. I realize a dedicated Docker-ized version of MSR is perhaps ideal -- and I'm happy to wait for that to manifest -- but if, in the meantime, someone out there can propose a build-your-own solution with minimal footprint, I'm game.
Unspoken here is how much I cringe when dealing with anything Linux, because for me it's like reading Chinese. But I can follow written instructions very well and provide meticulous feedback.
So thanks in advance...- Libra
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I don't have any docker containers yet. The bug list is looking pretty quiet for things urgent at the moment, so maybe I'll spend an hour or two seeing what I can get built. I also have a Synology NAS, so I have a ready test platform. The image/container itself is easy, but I'm still figuring out the correct (Synology) way to do the volumes (or bind mounts, whatever they use) for the config and data.
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Concur, and let's get @toggledbits ' earlier Docker-related notes copied into this thread as well. Dunno if they were higher up in the "MSR Available" thread?
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Hopefully not about to ask the world's dumbest question, but here goes...
I'm stumped at Step 1 of the "Getting Started" docs (https://reactor.toggledbits.com/docs/Getting-Started/), since I'm unable to locate the referenced reactor.yaml file.
The only files I see under my <reactor-data>/config folder are:
all-json.out (2 bytes)
all-yaml.out (3 bytes)IMPORTANT NOTE: I'm running MSR under Docker on my Synology NAS, but I believe it behaves identically in all respects to bare metal (Linux) installs. I'm wondering if it's possible that the desired YAML file exists within the distributed image, but is not being exposed yet by the container running MSR.
Will not proceed until advised by someone more knowledgeable. Until then, I have no "Hub/HA" defined, so cannot do anything, really, with MSR. (Makes me kinda wish these settings lived within MSR's panels and not a YAML file, LOL!)
Thanks - Libra
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The docker container is slightly different in that the data folder does not live within the container, it lives on a volume that the container mounts separately. This is so that the container can read and write data as needed and it is not destroyed when the image or container is replaced (e.g. you would otherwise lose your config and all your rules and reactions), and so you can edit your config without having to breach the walls of the container.
The install steps for the docker container has a step for you to create a directory that would become this volume. To confirm you are looking in the right place, open Docker via the package manager. Go to Container, then click the Reactor container. Hit the Details button, and then the Volume tab. The line that shows the mount path "/var/reactor" is the place where your config and data are stored (not /var/reactor, the path to the left of that under File/Folder. So check that to make sure you are looking in the right place. You should see
config,logsandstorageat a minimum, and possibly alsolocalandsys.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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The docker container is slightly different in that the data folder does not live within the container, it lives on a volume that the container mounts separately. This is so that the container can read and write data as needed and it is not destroyed when the image or container is replaced (e.g. you would otherwise lose your config and all your rules and reactions), and so you can edit your config without having to breach the walls of the container.
The install steps for the docker container has a step for you to create a directory that would become this volume. To confirm you are looking in the right place, open Docker via the package manager. Go to Container, then click the Reactor container. Hit the Details button, and then the Volume tab. The line that shows the mount path "/var/reactor" is the place where your config and data are stored (not /var/reactor, the path to the left of that under File/Folder. So check that to make sure you are looking in the right place. You should see
config,logsandstorageat a minimum, and possibly alsolocalandsys.@toggledbits said in Multi-System Reactor Developer Preview AVAILABLE:
You should see config, logs and storage at a minimum, and possibly also local and sys
In that folder (which in my case happens to be Reactor/Data, I only see the following subfolders:
config
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OK, then somehow the initial data didn't get copied. If you haven't already, open a PR for that on Mantis, and I'll post the two files so you can put them into the folder yourself, and I'll hunt down why it didn't copy them in the first place.
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FYI, I can move them also.
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No job too big or too small. If it needs to get done, I'm happy to do it.
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Strictly FYI, I've gone ahead and installed NODE.JS v12 on my Synology NAS in anticipation of attempting the Reactor backup conversion to MSR Rulesets. In my Linux-challenged mind, that's a step in the right direction. Next, I'll need to (re-)learn how to SSH into the NAS for executing Terminal commands. Will let you know if this gets me further along that trajectory.
EDIT: Nope, I was clearly jumping the gun. Will have to take another tack.
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I've also rolled 21062 (today's daily build) into a docker container for Synology. Link is in PR #58 on the bug tracker.
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We can both thank @kfxo for those instructions!
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Hi! this is for asking an help to correct time zone.
MSR is now installed (1.0.0-21200-16a604f) on my Synology NAS (DS 720+ with DSM 7) and Docker running on it. With my previous DS119j impossible to do anything with it.All entities from Vera Lite are imported ok .
Trying to import also entities from Ezlo Plus without success.
So looking in the "reactor.log" I notice TZ offset with something like this:
2021-08-03T20:46:16.212Z wsapi:NOTICE wsapi: starting version 21196
2021-08-03T20:46:16.286Z Engine:INFO Engine#1 master timer tick, local time "8/3/2021, 10:46:16 PM" (TZ offset 120 mins from UTC)
2021-08-03T20:46:16.560Z wsapi:INFO wsapi: connection from ::ffff:172.17.0.1In reactor container, going on LOG tab, I have something like this:
time = 23.00.05
and log
2021-08-03T23:00:05.001Z Engine:INFO Engine#1 master timer tick, local time "8/4/2021, 1:00:05 AM" (TZ offset 120 mins from UTC)TZ variable for reactor container is: Europe/Rome
On nas control Panel, server NTP is on time.google.com
in Docker LOG tab, time is correct
Browser time and host Time in MSR GUI are correctdoes anyone have any advice?
