Split containers on different hosts

[pete-rodgers]

I managed to get it to run on a raspberry pi3 for a few hours before influxdb crashed as advised it would! I tried to run it on a homelab host with static routes pointing to the powerwall3 via the pi3 but the TEDAPI spotted it (as the documentation said it would!). The pi3 could connect and authenticate, but whilst the remote host could connect, authentication failed.

Next step, can i run pypowerwall and telegraf on the pi3, and then have telegraf point to a influxdb install on another host, along with grafana? Can anyone point me in the right direction. Apologies for my lack of skill but I've struggled (with gemini's help) to break out the steps.

Trying to not buy another pi (but it is black friday tomorrow!)

[pete-rodgers]

Just as an update, I have got it working. I have the pi3 next to the PW3 and on the wlan of the PW and eth0 of my home network. I have just the pwpowerwall container running on it. Meanwhile, I have a more powerful box, "hp1" running the other services on the LAN. I could have just put the hp1 host next to the pw3 but I'd set it up as a proxmox host with docker running on linux in a VM and that wouldn't work nicely with the wireless network card. I could have just bought a new pi, but what's the fun in throwing money at a problem when you can code it!

As above, I had a lot of issues getting setup to complete on the pi3, and the one time it did complete, things slowed down very quickly and caused trouble for the under powered pi3.

What worked for me was on the pi3 to edit the powerwall.yaml file to comment out everything but pypowerwall as it was falling over standing up all the services at once. Then on hp1 I ran setup in full, but edited an if statement which was doing a test for the PW3 IP locally so that it would carry on and complete. Once installed, I then could edit the telegraf configuration file to point to the pi3 host, and so far, so good!

Honestly, the respect I have for Jason and the contributors is immense. I love your work and the opportunity to learn and reuse it.

[jasonacox]

Thanks @pete-rodgers ! Yes, this is a pretty heavy stack to run on the RPi 3. I'm glad you were able to get it to work. 👍