Could you tell us more about how did you install balena-sense? Did you use Deploy with Balena or did you clone the repository? Any custom configurations?
i do have a pi3 b I could try the same setup path on and see how things turn out. I did successfully have running the old version of this project on a 3b without problems about a year ago.
Thanks for the feedback! It looks like there is indeed an issue with the aarch64 version of the connector block (one of the components of balena-sense). I could replicate the same error just running that package. I’ve created an issue on the connector block repository and we’ll let you know when it’s fixed.
I also tried with raspberry pi 3 (armv7hf architecture) and it look like the block is working there so you should be able to get balena-sense running with that device.
@liquidmayo thanks for reporting this! It turned out that we had a temporary build failure with our base images for raspberry pi 4, specifically the Alpine Python 3 build image. It was still building Python 3.9 whereas the run image was building 3.10. This caused some issues with the block’s multi-layer dockerfile and package caching. I’ve pinned the images both to Python 3.9 now, and all is well with the world again.
thank you team for the quick turn around. I have it now running on the pi4 getting data to the dashboard no problem. I am trying to pass data now from multiple devices to a single graph as per the v2 guide, while working with this I did notice this error in the connector
2021-11-09T12:06:50Z E! [inputs.http] Error in plugin: [url=http://sensor:7575]: Get “http://sensor:7575”: dial tcp 172.17.0.6:7575: connect: connection refused
Hey @liquidmayo,
Do you still see the problem you reported earlier(viz. the connection refused error)? If yes, do share your docker-compose file with us. Feel free to redact anything that you are not comfortable sharing.
@liquidmayo, in reference to your docker-compose.yml file, if you only used the “Deploy with balena” buttons to set up your project, it’s likely that you don’t have that file which is OK. I believe the error you’re seeing is just the Connecter service saying that it can’t make an http connection to the sensor block. That is to be expected though, since you are using MQTT, the sensor has turned off its http server and is not providing data on port 7575. If everything is working for you as needed, then I think you can safely ignore that error message. Let us know if you need help with anything else regarding this project though.
Dear support team,
I just tried to run ‘Balena Sensor’ on a rasperry pi zero W with the BME680 sensor and used ‘Deploy with Balena’ as well.
Installation was fine and I see all services running in the WebUI. The Dashboard however remains empty.
If I log in to Grafana with the defaul credentials (admin/admin) and test the connection to the DB (influxdb:8086) I get the following error: Network Error: Bad Gateway(502)
I followed the steps from the blog and I would very much appreciate if someone could assists in:
finding out how to connect grafana to the influxDB
how to import the nice dashboard as shown in the blog post
In the diagnostic-tab on balena.io I see the following warnings:
a) Some networking issues detected:
test_balena_registry: Could not communicate with registry2.balena-cloud.com for authentication
b) Inspecting service(s) (sensor_4562461_2071661_b70afef626fec9a7f2ebf1423905a883 influxdb_4562459_2071661_b70afef626fec9a7f2ebf1423905a883 connector_4562462_2071661_b70afef626fec9a7f2ebf1423905a883) has timed out, check data incomplete
Hello @katsumoto84 please note that the article you linked has been superseded by this updated one: balenaSense v2: Updated temperature, pressure, and humidity monitoring for Raspberry Pi
InfluxDB is no longer available for the Raspberry Pi Zero architecture so balenaSense no longer supports that device. If you are able to retry with a Pi3 or 4-based device you should not receive these errors. However, the sensor-block will work on a Zero, and as mentioned in the link posted above, you could take readings with a Zero and publish them to another device or system using MQTT. (also see GitHub - balena-io-playground/simple-sensor: Read sensor data and send via MQTT) Hope this helps and let us know if you have any further questions!
