Initial Setup Assistance

[lukedbarton]

Hi All, I am kind of new to linux (ubuntu 22.04) (apologies in advance!) and grafana and probobally in the deep end and am looking for a little help to get this up and running cause it looks amazing and love metrics!

I have managed to get docker installed and it doesnt seem to be throwing any errors after following https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ and configuring non sudo to access it.
I am now getting an issue after following the instructions to install compose successfully and then trying to run setup.sh

luke@tbcgfa01: /Powerwall-Dashboard$ ./setup.sh
Powerwall Dashboard (v2.5.2) - SETUP
ERROR: docker-compose is not available or not runnning.
This script requires docker-compose, please install and try again.

Compose its is def installed
luke@tbcgfa01:~/Powerwall-Dashboard$ docker compose version
Docker Compose version v2.10.2

I have set the permission correct I think on tyhe compose file to allow non sudo to execute
sudo chmod +x /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose

(I had to use the find command to find this file after the auto install placed it here)
luke@tbcgfa01:~/Powerwall-Dashboard$ sudo find / -name "docker-compose" -type f
/usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose

Any pointers would be great!

[jasonacox]

Thanks for posting this @lukedbarton - you might have identified an issue with the setup script! It expects docker-compose to be available - can you run this and paste results?

# what setup uses
docker-compose version

# what you may have
docker compose version

I suspect you have v2 (the second one) but the setup script uses the v1 format. Here is the way to install docker-compose:

# install
sudo pip3 install docker-compose

# test
docker-compose --version

[mcbirse]

No problem, glad you got it sorted!

[lukedbarton]

And just to close off thanks all for the assistance I got it up and running thank you again!

[lukedbarton]

Hey Team, my gateway has changed its ip address :-( and my new home opensource firewall doesnt support reservations. Any thoughts on if the gateway can be assigned a static IP or how can I modify my setup for the new IP address.
Cheers! Luke

[lukedbarton]

Should I just rerun the setup?

[jasonacox]

Hi @lukedbarton - yes you can re-run setup but there is an easier way:

1. Edit the pypowerwall.env file and change the IP address
2. Restart pypowerwall: docker restart pypowerwall

I'm surprised that your firewall doesn't allow IP assignments. You might check on that again.