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MQTT interface... time for some testing. Where are my experts?

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    RogerO
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    #43

    I am trying to install this in Docker and getting the following error:
    $ docker exec -it reactorjs /bin/sh cd /home/pi/reactor/ext/MQTTController ./install.sh exit
    /bin/sh: can't open 'cd': No such file or directory

    Not enough of a linux gut to know what the issue is. Anyone have any hints?

    Roger

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      toggledbits
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      #44

      You're reading the wrong direction, I think. See the docs.

      Edit 2: OK, getting in sync here again... you've given the wrong pathname to cd. Give it what the documentation says. You're working inside the container -- gotta follow its rules.

      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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        This is the part I used from the instructions:
        "docker exec -it <container-name> /bin/sh cd /var/reactor/ext/MQTTController ./install.sh exit"

        Results:
        pi@RedBMWDeb:/home $ docker exec -it reactorjs /bin/sh cd /var/reactor/ext/MQTTController ./install.sh exit
        /bin/sh: can't open 'cd': No such file or directory

        Then I tried to determine why the command wouldn't run and determined that maybe the path was wrong on my machine so ran the one in the previous message pointing to the path where MQTTController files were.

        pi@RedBMWDeb:~/reactor/ext/MQTTController $ ls
        0-README.txt COPYRIGHT MQTTController.js
        buildstamp install.sh mqtt_devices.yaml
        CHANGELOG.md mqtt_capabilities.yaml package.json

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          toggledbits
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          #46

          It looks like you're trying to do all of those commands on one line. That's not right. You do them one at a time.

          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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            RogerO
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            Installing line my line removed that issue. Still running into errors.

            Is there a way to determine if the dependencies get installed correctly. I see this on the screen but once I restart reactor it fails.
            Installing dependencies...
            [..................] \ idealTree:MQTTController: sill idealTree buildDeps.
            It sits here for a minute or 2 and then exits. When I modify the reactor.yaml file

              - id: mqtt
                name: MQTT
                enabled: true
                implementation: MQTTController
                config:
                  source: "mqtt://192.168.0.16:1883/"
            

            Then I get these error messages in the container logs when ReactorJS starts up
            Require stack:

            • /var/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js

              at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:933:15)

              at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:778:27)

              at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19)

              at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)

              at Object.<anonymous> (/var/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js:22:14)

              at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1103:14)

              at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1155:10)

              at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)

              at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)

              at ModuleWrap.<anonymous> (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:168:29)

            [zwavejs-22058]2022-03-01T20:12:27.189Z Controller:CRIT Error: Cannot find module 'mqtt'

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              toggledbits
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              #48

              Dependencies didn't get installed properly. Try running the install script again.

              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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                RogerO
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                I have run the install script about five times. Same results every time. Any way to enable better logging?

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                  toggledbits
                  wrote on last edited by toggledbits
                  #50

                  Just run the dependency install manually:

                  docker exec -it reactor /bin/sh 
                  cd /var/reactor/ext/MQTTController 
                  npm i --no-save --omit dev --verbose
                  exit
                  

                  If it doesn't succeed, post the full output here, and please use the fenced code block formatting. If you don't know how to do that, read here

                  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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                    #51

                    Here is the screen output"

                    pi@RedBMWDeb:~ $ docker exec -it reactorjs /bin/sh
                    /opt/reactor # cd /var/reactor/ext/MQTTController
                    /var/reactor/ext/MQTTController # npm i --no-save --omit dev
                    npm ERR! code EAI_AGAIN
                    npm ERR! syscall getaddrinfo
                    npm ERR! errno EAI_AGAIN
                    npm ERR! request to https://registry.npmjs.org/mqtt failed, reason: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN registry.npmjs.org
                    
                    npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
                    npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2022-03-01T21_10_51_623Z-debug-0.log
                    /var/reactor/ext/MQTTController # 
                    /var/reactor/ext/MQTTController # 
                    

                    The log referenced in the error message is not readily findable.

                    registry.npmjs.org is findable in nslookup so not lookinhg like a DNS error. Alse turned off pihole incase that was an issue. Still same error.

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                      toggledbits
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                      #52

                      What's your network configuration for this container? This looks like the internal networking of the container can't access the outside world.

                      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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                        #53

                        Ok, let me look into that.

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                          toggledbits
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                          At the very least, DNS isn't up to scratch inside the container, it appears. You might try this:

                          docker exec -it reactor /bin/sh
                          nslookup www.google.com
                          

                          That's a DNS lookup from inside the container. Should give you several addresses.

                          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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                            Thinks for the tips. Figured out the DNS issue was a setting in pihole. Had interface settings set to only respond on interface eth0, changed it to local requests and the install script ran fine. Got me some learnin today, thanks,

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