Influxdb not connecting

Setup, Configuration and Use Runtime
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  • Platform information:
    • Hardware: arm64/4GB/32GB SD Card, 500GB HDD
    • OS: Raspbian
    • Java Runtime Environment: Docker
    • openHAB version: 3.3.0

I am trying to get openhab to use influxdb for persistence, but keep getting this error in logs:

15:23:40.944 [DEBUG] [e.influxdb.InfluxDBPersistenceService] - store ignored, InfluxDB is not yet connected

Influx 1.8 is running in a docker container and this query works from inside the openhab container:

root@bigmac:/openhab# curl -i -XPOST 'http://localhost:3201/write?db=openhab&u=openhab' --data-binary 'cpu_load_short,host=server01,region=us-west value=0.64'
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Content-Type: application/json
Request-Id: 8fcb2778-0ce7-11ed-804d-0242ac140002
X-Influxdb-Build: OSS
X-Influxdb-Version: 1.8.10
X-Request-Id: 8fcb2778-0ce7-11ed-804d-0242ac140002
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:33:40 GMT

This is my influxdb.cfg:

# The database URL, e.g. http://127.0.0.1:8086 or https://127.0.0.1:8084 .
# Defaults to: http://127.0.0.1:8086
url=http://localhost:3201

# The name of the database user, e.g. openhab.
# Defaults to: openhab
# user=<user>

# The password of the database user.
# password=

# The name of the database, e.g. openhab.
# Defaults to: openhab
db=openhab

Influx Logs also show no requests from openhab

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set user and password :slight_smile:

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random values? doc says it’s optional and I have no auth configured. (Influx is running fully local)

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at least you are using a user name openhab in your curl command:

db=openhab&u=openhab'
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Ah, just seen… “defaults to openhab”…

Well… I would recommend to set both user and password…

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Oh… stupid me…

You are using openHAB3.3, therefor, you have to set the path through the MainUI…

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Well the curl command was working without user too, but I just tried it with random values for user and password and it worked!

Maybe a bug in it then? I just used openhab and openhab for user and password. Influx was never configured in any way, fresh docker setup.

Anyways, thanks it works now!

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really? Not sure whether i did that. But why? Sounds pretty annoying if you need to configure that by hand or API requests

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No… seems to have changed once more… there was an option to do it via MainUI… but in fact, as I’m searching for, it’s gone…

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isn’t it under
Settings => InfluxDB Persistence Service
there you have all parameters to configure

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yeah it is there, but I think it is synced with the config files

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or it has some hierachy like first read config files and then UI overrides (or other way around, probably makes more sense)

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Yes. for whatever reason openHAB didn’t create the influxdb.cfg file when I installed influxdb… maybe some issues with permisions… it’s a test system…