Update from Beta need to reinstall solaredge Topic is solved

[hjzwiers]

I have a strange thing in my installation. I am running Dockge and have everything installed and running well.

When I do an update of domoticz beta i get a failure from the solaredge modbustcp app and need to reinstall

pip3 install pymodbus==3.6.9
pip3 install solaredge_modbus==0.8.0

from within in the domoticz folder, why is this necessary?

[jannl]

Seems like normal behaviour. When you install a new docker container, the added installs are not present anymore and to be reinstalled. The same happens when you bring the container down.

Not sure how this works with dockge, but checkout customstart.sh to automate this.

Edit: I looked up dockge and it seems a tool to simplify the maintenance of the yaml files and the stop/start of the containers. I have just very few containers and 'vi rules', so I stick to the command line. But the remark of customstart still stands.

[eddieb]

add the following lines to /opt/stacks/domoticz/config/customstart.sh

echo installing python requirements for solaredge-modbus-tcp
cd /opt/domoticz/userdata/plugins/domoticz-solaredge-modbustcp-plugin/
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade
echo done

[hjzwiers]

Thanks, I've implemented this and will try!

[waltervl]

For use of the custom start script see the wiki https://wiki.domoticz.com/Docker#custom ... _container

For example, it is better to make sure it only runs at first startup. The mechanism is explained in the wiki.