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Local development of Pioreactor

Local development​

  1. Confirm that Python3 is installed, and is greater or equal to version 3.9. python3 --version will print the version.
  2. To install the Pioreactor codebase locally, it should be enough to clone the repo pioreactor/pioreactor. 
    git clone https://github.com/Pioreactor/pioreactor.git && cd pioreactor
  3. Install the core software are necessary packages (useful to do this in a virtualenv!): 
    pip3 install -e .
    pip3 install -r requirements/requirements_dev.txt
  4. In the pioreactor folder, create a folder called .pioreactor/ and .pioreactor/storage. 
    mkdir .pioreactor
    mkdir .pioreactor/storage
  5. The configuration file that is used is config.dev.ini, and is provided in the repository.

MQTT​

You will need to install MQTT and have a broker running locally. On OSX, homebrew can be used to install the MQTT broker mosquitto. On Windows, it can be installed from this download page.

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The mosquitto broker should be running whenever you invoke the Pioreactor software locally, else you'll likely get some connection refused error.

The CLI tools mosquitto_pub and mosquitto_sub should work as well.

Running jobs locally​

With pio

TESTING=1 pio run <job name>

You can also modify to hostname and experiment with

TESTING=1 \
HOSTNAME=<whatever> \
EXPERIMENT=<up to you> \
pio run <job name>

With python

TESTING=1 python <your script>.py

You can also modify to hostname and experiment with

TESTING=1 \
HOSTNAME=<whatever> \
EXPERIMENT=<up to you> \
python <your script>.py
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If invoking from a different directory from pioreactor/, you'll need to have a config.dev.ini file locally. I usually copy my pioreactor/config.dev.ini to wherever I am working. Or you can use an environment argument GLOBAL_CONFIG=./config.dev.ini pio ...

Testing​

py.test pioreactor/tests

Plugins development​

Create a folder in the pioreactor folder called plugins_dev. In this folder, you can place python files that will run whenever pio is invoked (similar to the plugins folder at .pioreactor/plugins on the Raspberry Pi, see docs here)

Raspberry Pi Images​

Raspberry Pi images are built in the Pioreactor/CustoPizer repo. Nightly builds are available at nightly.pioreactor.com.