Hi there,
I have been working and trying for couple of days and decided to reach here for help as well.
Please note that I’m using OpenBalena on a private VPS.
I am working on a project that needs WiFi Connect and Node Red.
Here you can see my project files, the most important ones,
Currently I’m using OpenBalena: downloaded the latest image available on staging environment.
Versions:
CLI: 12.44.20
OpenBalenaOS: v2.80.dev (latest available on the staging, downloaded via CLI).
Hardware device: Raspberry Pi Zero W.
Steps I have done:
- On the root folder of the project, I’m running the following command:
balena build --deviceType raspberry-pi --arch rpi --emulated - Try to deploy the build to my app (created previously a Raspberry Pi Zero W app via
balena app create myApp)
balena deploy myApp --source ./ - After downloading the latest version of the Raspberry Pi Zero W image (on staging environment):
balena os download raspberry-pi -o ./image.img --version 2.80+rev1.dev --version menu, - Try to preload the built app (myApp) to my fresh downloaded image:
DEBUG=1 balena preload ./image.img --app myApp --splash-image logo.png
The issue that I’m facing is that the WiFi AP never shows up and even more interesting is that on the device when I try to list all the files and folders from the location: /usr/src/ I’m getting an EMPTY folder. How’s that possible?
Am I doing something wrong? Been looking to the documentation and try to understand what I’m doing wrong.
Here’s a full output of the process, It may be useful for someone to help me out!
alex@ubuntu:~/myApp$ balena app create myApp
? Device Type Raspberry Pi (v1 / Zero / Zero W)
Application created: myApp (raspberry-pi, id 26)
alex@ubuntu:~/myApp$ balena build --deviceType raspberry-pi --arch rpi --emulated
[Info] Building for rpi/raspberry-pi
[Build] Building services...
[Build] wifi-connect Preparing...
[Build] node-red Preparing...
[Info] Emulation is enabled
[Build] wifi-connect Step 1/3 : FROM balenablocks/wifi-connect:rpi
[Build] wifi-connect ---> e94cd084778c
[Build] wifi-connect Step 2/3 : COPY [".balena/qemu-execve","/tmp/qemu-execve"]
[Build] wifi-connect ---> Using cache
[Build] wifi-connect ---> 0c6447cdf0ea
[Build] wifi-connect Step 3/3 : COPY ["./scripts/start.sh","."]
[Build] wifi-connect ---> Using cache
[Build] wifi-connect ---> 0735c4a4df72
[Build] wifi-connect Successfully built 0735c4a4df72
[Build] wifi-connect Successfully tagged myApp_wifi-connect:latest
[Build] node-red Step 1/11 : FROM balenalib/raspberry-pi-debian-node:12-stretch-build as build
[Build] node-red ---> 0b0610014d32
[Build] node-red Step 2/11 : COPY [".balena/qemu-execve","/tmp/qemu-execve"]
[Build] node-red ---> Using cache
[Build] node-red ---> 0a45e473105d
[Build] node-red Step 3/11 : RUN ["/tmp/qemu-execve","-execve","/bin/sh","-c","JOBS=MAX npm install -g --production --unsafe-perm node-red node-red-admin node-red-contrib-balena"]
[Build] node-red ---> Using cache
[Build] node-red ---> 8e86d48786c4
[Build] node-red Step 4/11 : FROM balenalib/raspberry-pi-debian-node:12-stretch-run
[Build] node-red ---> d08fcf28568b
[Build] node-red Step 5/11 : COPY [".balena/qemu-execve","/tmp/qemu-execve"]
[Build] node-red ---> Using cache
[Build] node-red ---> e5c515acb323
[Build] node-red Step 6/11 : RUN ["/tmp/qemu-execve","-execve","/bin/sh","-c","apt-get update && apt-get install -yq --no-install-recommends rpi.gpio python-dev python-rpi.gpio libatomic1 && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*"]
[Build] node-red ---> Using cache
[Build] node-red ---> 8b0082445584
[Build] node-red Step 7/11 : WORKDIR /usr/src/app
[Build] node-red ---> Using cache
[Build] node-red ---> 336ee18c64be
[Build] node-red Step 8/11 : COPY --from=build ["/usr/local/bin","/usr/local/bin"]
[Build] node-red ---> Using cache
[Build] node-red ---> f0a04133fe06
[Build] node-red Step 9/11 : COPY --from=build ["/usr/local/lib/node_modules","/usr/local/lib/node_modules"]
[Build] node-red ---> Using cache
[Build] node-red ---> c8cca47f039f
[Build] node-red Step 10/11 : COPY ["./app","./"]
[Build] node-red ---> Using cache
[Build] node-red ---> 1ca43a21f468
[Build] node-red Step 11/11 : CMD ["bash","/usr/src/app/start.sh"]
[Build] node-red ---> Using cache
[Build] node-red ---> cd6b80b1d68e
[Build] node-red Successfully built cd6b80b1d68e
[Build] node-red Successfully tagged myApp_node-red:latest
[Build] wifi-connect Image size: 20.38 MB
[Build] node-red Image size: 446.39 MB
[Build] Built 2 services in 3:15
[Success] Build succeeded!
alex@ubuntu:~/myApp$ balena deploy myApp --source ./
[Info] Everything is up to date (use --build to force a rebuild)
[Info] Creating release...
[Info] Pushing images to registry...
[Info] Saving release...
[Success] Deploy succeeded!
[Success] Release: 27a395a7012404b222b44754db55bf07
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alex@ubuntu:~/myApp$ DEBUG=1 balena preload ./image.img --app myApp --splash-image logo.png
[debug] original argv0="balena" argv=[/home/alex/balena-cli/balena,/snapshot/versioned-source/bin/balena,preload,./image.img,--app,myApp,--splash-image,logo.png] length=8
[debug] new argv=[/home/alex/balena-cli/balena,/snapshot/versioned-source/bin/balena,preload,./image.img,--app,myApp,--splash-image,logo.png] length=8
Building Docker preloader image. [=== ] 12%
Step 1/7 : FROM docker:20.10.6-dind
Building Docker preloader image. [====== ] 25%
Step 2/7 : RUN apk update && apk add --no-cache py3-pip parted btrfs-progs util-linux sfdisk file coreutils sgdisk
---> Using cache
Building Docker preloader image. [========= ] 37%
Step 3/7 : COPY ./requirements.txt /tmp/
---> Using cache
Building Docker preloader image. [============ ] 50%
Step 4/7 : RUN pip3 install -r /tmp/requirements.txt
---> Using cache
Building Docker preloader image. [=============== ] 62%
Step 5/7 : COPY ./src /usr/src/app
---> Using cache
Building Docker preloader image. [================== ] 75%
Step 6/7 : WORKDIR /usr/src/app
---> Using cache
Building Docker preloader image. [===================== ] 87%
Step 7/7 : CMD ["python3", "/usr/src/app/preload.py"]
---> Using cache
---> 5314c822b44d
Successfully built 5314c822b44d
Building Docker preloader image. [========================] 100%
| Checking that the image is a writable file
| Finding a free tcp port and getting balena settings
| Checking if the image is an edison zip archive
| Creating preloader container
\ Starting preloader container
\ Fetching application myApp
- Reading image informationWaiting for Docker to start...
- Reading image informationDocker started
/ Reading image information
? Select a release current
\ Fetching application 26
- Estimating required additional space
| Resizing partitions and waiting for dockerd to startReplacing splash image
- Resizing partitions and waiting for dockerd to startExpanding extended partition n°4 of /img/balena.img
Expanding logical partition n°6 of /img/balena.img
\ Resizing partitions and waiting for dockerd to startResizing ext4 filesystem of partition n°6 of /img/balena.img using /dev/loop16
- Resizing partitions and waiting for dockerd to startFile system OK
/ Resizing partitions and waiting for dockerd to startWaiting for Docker to start...
\ Resizing partitions and waiting for dockerd to startDocker started
Pulling 2 images [========================] 100%
| Cleaning up temporary files
Looking forward for any hints!