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Local development of Pioreactor

Local development​

  1. 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
  1. Install the core software are necessary packages (useful to do this in a virtualenv!):
pip3 install -e .
pip3 install -r requirements/requirements_dev.txt
  1. In the pioreactor folder, create a folder called .pioreactor/ and .pioreactor/storage.
mkdir .pioreactor
mkdir .pioreactor/storage

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.

tip

enable logging in /usr/local/etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf by adding a line like:

log_dest file path/to/somewhere/.mosquitto/log

The CLI tools mosquitto_pub and mosquitto_sub should work as well.

Testing​

py.test pioreactor/tests

Running jobs locally​

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>
info

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.

Raspberry Pi Images​

Raspberry Pi images are built in the Pioreactor/CustoPizer repo, though these aren't needed for development.