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Good day
I have a 64-bit Raspberry Pi 4 with an Ubuntu operating system on which I have installed a 64-bit Docker system.
Now I am wondering if anyone can help me to find the venus-docker-server, venus-docker-grafana and venus-docker-upnp images that I can use, if such images are available.
Regards
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I recently installed this on an OrangePi running on Armbian.
With some trial and error I now got it working.
The steps i followed:
1. install docker for linux as described on the docker site. https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
and test it with hello-world
2. Install the docker compose command. (this was missing
sudo apt install docker-compose
3. add user pi to the system
useradd pi
4. give it a password
sudo passwd pi
5. add pi to docker
sudo usermod -aG docker pi
6. create directory victron in systemroot
mkdir victron
7. download the docker-compose.yaml from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/victronenergy/venus-docker-grafana/master/docker-compose.yaml
8. Edit the Yaml file (and this makes it working)
change all the image instances from: "victronenergy/venus-docker-server:latest" to "victronenergy/venus-docker-server:armhf-latest"
mine now looks like this:
version: '3.4'
services:
server:
image: "victronenergy/venus-docker-server:armhf-latest"
ports:
- "8088:8088"
volumes:
- "config-storage:/config"
upnp:
image: "victronenergy/venus-docker-upnp:armhf-latest"
network_mode: host
influxdb:
image: "influxdb:1.7"
ports:
- "8086:8086"
volumes:
- "influxdb-storage:/var/lib/influxdb"
environment:
- INFLUXDB_HTTP_LOG_ENABLED=false
graphing:
image: "victronenergy/venus-docker-grafana:armhf-latest"
volumes:
- "grafana-storage:/var/lib/grafana"
ports:
- "3000:3000"
volumes:
influxdb-storage:
grafana-storage:
config-storage:
9. execute command docker compose up
docker-compose up -d
10. The command at point 9 showed the same results as Matthijs had in his video. During pulling and building the Victron-Grafana code it looked like this:
11. After the complete messages I browsed to the http://localhost:8088 and got the following dashboard overview:
I then were able to connect my VenusOS raspberryPi and pulling data from it in a grafana dashboard
The only thing I now need to figure out is how to automaticly start the Venus-docker instances after a reboot of the Pi.
I now restarted them by exceuting the command docker-compose up --d But I want them to start again at a reboot.
The reason I edited my docker-compose.yaml file was the following.
I fresly installed docker and confirmed it was running hello-world. The documentation stated it is a standard image.
I then searched the docker site for victronenery and found the following containers on their site:
https://hub.docker.com/search?q=victronenergy&type=image
I then went to https://hub.docker.com/r/victronenergy/venus-docker-grafana/tags
I there found some info on architecture; chose the armhf-2.0.2 as this sounded most logical to me.
Hope this helps someone in the future.
regards,
Marcel
Hi Marcel.
A trick I discovered was to force a restart of the services in the docker-compose.yaml file.
Four places - highlighted in blue below. Just re-run docker-compose up after the change. Worked for me; hope it works for you.
server:
image: "victronenergy/venus-docker-server:latest"
ports:
- "8088:8088"
volumes:
- "config-storage:/config"
restart: always
upnp:
image: "victronenergy/venus-docker-upnp:latest"
network_mode: host
restart: always
influxdb:
image: "influxdb:1.7"
ports:
- "8086:8086"
volumes:
- "influxdb-storage:/var/lib/influxdb"
environment:
- INFLUXDB_HTTP_LOG_ENABLED=false
restart: always
graphing:
image: "victronenergy/venus-docker-grafana:latest"
volumes:
- "grafana-storage:/var/lib/grafana"
ports:
- "3000:3000"
restart: always
volumes:
influxdb-storage:
grafana-storage:
config-storage:
Hi dunnp,
Thank you for your Help. I indeed found an older post from in which you;'ve mentioned the same. But I got an error message when I've added the restart line.
root@Grafana-host:/victron# docker-compose up --d
ERROR: yaml.parser.ParserError: while parsing a block collection
in "./docker-compose.yaml", line 8, column 6
expected <block end>, but found '?'
in "./docker-compose.yaml", line 9, column 6
root@Grafana-host:/victron#
I edit it with Notepad ++ insted of the editor in linux
I think I got it. When editing in Notepad++ it autmaticly groups the commands.
I've removed a [ ] space which made it an individual entry.
After that I restarted the command:
root@Grafana-host:/victron# docker-compose up --d
Recreating victron_upnp_1 ... done
Recreating victron_influxdb_1 ... done
Recreating victron_server_1 ... done
Recreating victron_graphing_1 ... done
root@Grafana-host:/victron#
I've rebooted the Pi and indeed now my dashboard is instantly..
Now it's time to start customizing the dashboard.
Thank you for your help.
Finally have Grafana running in Rpi 64-bit OS
Hi, I have just tried getting this to work with the following versions:
Along with latest venus-grafana-docker (as of today).
Everything works fine on my m1 macbook, but when adjusting the docker tag for each image to `armhf-latest` to run on the raspberry pi, I get the following error in grafana:
Has anyone else experienced this and have any idea how to fix?
Many thanks!
For anyone else encountering the above issue, I managed to solve it by changing the venus-docker-grafana tag from armhf-latest to armhf-2.0.0 since armhf-latest isn't actually the latest build for the grafana image. The other two image tags remain as armhf-latest.
It also looks like someone else also found another possible solution by building their own image - they talk about it here: https://github.com/victronenergy/venus-docker-grafana-images/issues/12
