Openhab not speaking to influxdb...how to test?

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Big +1 to this thread, I was struggling to figure out why my data wasn’t persisting. This was the final piece of the puzzle.

I made a few mistakes and did a few tests prior to getting to this point. I’m documenting them here in case someone else needs them:

  • I incorrectly named my persistence file influx.persist, it should be influxdb.persist

  • I verified I could log into Influx with the user I created for OpenHAB

    $ influx -username 'openhab' -password ''
> use openhab

    (it will throw an error if the user can’t be authenticated or has the wrong permission set)

  • I set up a temporary persistence rule to store a sensor’s data every minute, so that I’d have data coming in.

  • I verified in /var/log/syslog that something was being sent every minute, and that it got an “ok” response.

    $ tail /var/log/syslog
... influxd[xxx]: [httpd] ...

  • I made sure that url in services/influxdb.cfg matched the bind-address in /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf (the solution raised in this thread, probably 127.0.0.1:8086)

Thanks @Gad_Ofir and @gismofx.

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